Posts Tagged ‘AFL-CIO’
Union Bosses Demand Nuclear Option On Obama’s Flawed NLRB & Labor Nominations
The potential for a Big Labor Payback is huge as Senator Harry Reid twists arms to get Thomas Perez nominated as Department of Labor. For more details, check out the Personnel Alert on Perez on The National Right to Work Committee’s website here: If Senate Democrats bend to union bosses’ wishes, when the pendulum swings,…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 15, 2013
H.R. 1120, the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee, March 13, 2013 Links to Foundation Story In January 2012, President Obama installed three so-called recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while Congress was not in recess. In the wake of the president’s unprecedented action, efforts…
Read MoreTop Union Bosses File U.S. Supreme Court Briefs Contending That Government Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages Is Constitutionally Required
AFL-CIO Files Supreme Court Amicus Briefs to Support Marriage … Last May, few Democrat party constituencies were quicker and more vociferous than the union brass in commending President Obama’s public endorsement of state court decisions and statutes that change the traditional definition of marriage by formally instituting same-sex unions. The top bosses of the AFL-CIO,…
Read MoreFlorida Union Bosses Indicted on Numerous Criminal Charges
Darryl Brice Payne, President, and Tianni Latrice Wade, his executive Assistant, were charged with numerous conspiracies to defraud the International Longshoremen’s Associaiton, Local 1526, in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Mark Young, Browardnetonline, has the story. Payne and Brown are both charged in Count 1 with conspiracy to steal money, funds, property, and other assets of the…
Read MorePhiladelphia Union Boss Boasts About Union Violence
The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has tracked violence incidents since 1975. While much of their information comes from news media accounts, it is obvious that many incidents go unreported, even to police, out of fear of retaliation. Union bosses use tough economic times and free speech to exculpate union violence, their victims still suffer…
Read MoreTaste of the Future
John Podhoretz puts a new angle on the New York City bus strike, predicting other cities will experience the same sort of trouble as public sector union bosses lose more and more power. Here’s the story in the New York Post. There’s a major labor action going on in New York City, as the…
Read MorePennsylvania Union Bosses Fight Privatization
Pennsylvania United Food and Commercial Workers union officials are opposing legislation that will privatize liquor sales in Pennsylvania. Government control of liquor has been a plum victory for union bosses.They have given thousands in forced dues to both Republican and Democrat lawmakers to keepcarrying water for forced unionism.Eric Boehm, reason.com, has the story. The United…
Read MoreMark Mix Challenges Union Bosses’ Confidence in Victories Under Obama Administration II
Many union bosses are assuming major victories with the new Obama Administration, the makeup of Congress and the Obama National Labor Relations Board, now that all Republicans have been removed from that Board. The National Labor Relations Board under the Obama administration is composed of former union lawyers who are more than willing to allow…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Continue to Threaten Worker Freedom
Michigan union bosses continue the threat of lawsuits against Michigan’s Right to Work Law. If they get their way, there will be no freedom for Michigan workers. The Detroit News has the story: Al Garrett , president of the Michigan-based American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 25, vowed to get “retribution” for…
Read More“There Will Be Blood”: Union Violence in the Age of Obama
From Michelle Malkin, a short overview on union violence, including the incidents which accompanied passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law. Not so many moons ago, President Obama urged us all to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.” He Who Heals…
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