Posts Tagged ‘Big Labor’
Union 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 union bosses speak for their members? Luke Rosiak has the story in The Washington Times. There can be riches in standing up for the working…
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 over forced union dues. But at least in theory, Big Labor cannot to use workers’ forced-dues money to advance a political agenda that those workers…
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 their employers. Labor Union Report Diary has the story: Notwithstanding the union-backed effort to end Senate filibusters, time and time again, both publicly and behind-the-scenes,…
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 is supposed to ensure all workers are able to work in freedom. When Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced Wednesday that she is leaving the Obama…
Read More2012 Was Not A Good Year for Big Labor
FrontPage.com Blogger Earl Capps reviews 2012 moves toward worker freedom, including the events in Wisconsin, and teh passage of Right To Work Laws in Indiana and Michigan. These political upsets were just the latest in a string of recent setbacks for organized labor which signify a growing erosion of the once-formidable power of labor…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Want To Keep Union Power To Themselves
Big Labor bosses don’t want the rank and file wresting more power from them, for fear they will lose their power to force workers, and to live the good life on forced union dues. Alec McGillis, tnr.com, misses this point telling the story of union “dissident” Jerry Tucker. It’s not surprising Tucker’s voice was drowned…
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 MoreUnion Apologist Criticizes Union Bosses for Ignoring Rank and File
A view from the other side: Union supporter Jonathan Tasini, takes union bosses to task for alienating rank and file members on Working Life. Beginning with the passage of Right to Work in Michigan, . . . concentrating on the fact that Right to Work eliminated the goose that laid the golden egg for union…
Read More‘We’ll Be At Your Daughter’s Soccer Game!’
The drama continues. Reverend Williams’ assurance that Big Labor proponents would follow Gov. Rick Snyder to his daughter’s soccer game, appeared to be empty, as his daughter doesn’t even play soccer. . . Jarrett Skorup has the story at Michigan Capitol Confidential A speaker at a union protest against right-to-work legislation said if Gov. Rick Snyder…
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