Posts Tagged ‘Big Labor’
Obama’s Big Labor Payback Includes Federal Employees
The Washington Examiner’s Sean Higgins examines the Executive Order the president signed in 2009 which created a council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, which gives federal government employee union officials a…
Read MoreBig Labor Is Going to Pot
In a stunning reversal, Big Labor puts individual choice before the “collective good” when it comes to organizing marijuana growers. Jillian Kay Melchior has the story in National Review Online today.…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips January 25, 2013
Pay Up or Get Sued Washington Free Beacon, January 23, 2013 Steven Cook, president of the Michigan Education Association, circulated an email to local union officials and staff instructing…
Read MoreKansas Union Members Are Still Getting a Bum Deal
Big Labor’s power in many states is so great it can make the government do its bidding, and make it virtually impossible for workers to resign their union membership. Even…
Read MoreDemocrats’ Labor Piggybank Returns
Big Labor’s threat to pull funds from Democrats was only a lovers’ quarrel. LaborPains.org has the story: This summer, organized labor went out of its way to say it was…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet January 18, 2013
Sean Higgins: Richard Trumka for Labor Secretary Washington Times, January 15, 2013 When Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced her resignation last week, my Washington Examiner colleague Philip Klein quipped…
Read MoreUnion Member: “It Sounds Like We’re Getting Robbed”
Stanley Oubre, retired Boilermaker, may have been correct when he made this comment. Again, another example of union bosses’ putting their own agenda before the needs of their members. Do…
Read MoreOp-Ed: Obama NLRB expands unions’ right to nonunion workers’ cash
Mark Mix in the Washington Examiner: Federal statutes grant Big Labor extraordinary power over individual workers. Except in right-to-work states, union officials can have workers fired for refusing to fork…
Read MoreObama NLRB Serving Union Bosses Everywhere
More examples of how union bosses and their supporters don’t have their members’ welfare in mind. The Obama NLRB has become Big Labor’s servant, sanctioning union violence and endangering workers testifying on behalf of…
Read MoreHilda Solis Failed Big Labor Bosses
Byron York, Washington Examiner, gives Hilda Solis the farewell she deserves after 4 years of using the Department of Labor to promote froced-dues, union boss mentality in an agency that…
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