Posts Tagged ‘Big Labor’
Michigan Unions Demonstrate Against Freedom
Michael Reagan comments on Big Labor’s violence during passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law. All those union thugs who were rioting in Michigan last week were angry about the wrong thing. They were demonstrating – which in union-speak means breaking things and punching people – against Michigan’s decision to become a right-to-work state. If…
Read MoreFreedom is not the unions’ friend
George Will comments on the economic impact of the Michigan Right to Work Law Rick Snyder, who is hardly a human cactus, warned Michigan’s labor leaders. The state’s mild-mannered Republican governor, currently in his first term in his first public office, has rarely been accused of being, or praised for being, a fire-breathing conservative. When…
Read MoreRight to work? Workers vote with their feet
Glenn Garvin, Miami Herald Online, explains why labor-backed politicians and Big Labor won’t succeed in destroying Michigan’s Right to Work Law: Labor unions and their political buddies have sworn that they will roll back the right-to-work law passed by the Michigan Legislature earlier this month. But to win the right to work battle, the union…
Read MoreBig Labor Bosses Make Way More than Michigan Workers
Jillian Kay Melchior, National Review, The Corner, compares Big Labor officials salaries to the rank and file. It pays big to be a union boss. That’s something to remember as Big Labor leaders decry Michigan’s new right-to-work law. After all, those union dues are supporting their rock-and-roll lifestyles. The latest numbers from the Office of…
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…
Read MoreMIX: Democratic Party’s Big Labor backbone
Right to Work top target for union allies By Mark Mix Tuesday, October 9, 2012 As President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden campaign for re-election, they feel compelled time and again to remind anyone who has gathered to hear them that America’s economic troubles started well before they got to the White House.…
Read MoreAlly Admits: Organized Labor ‘Works Against the Public’s Interest’ on Multiple Issues
Prop. 32 an unbalanced ‘reform’ plan – California Teachers Association Unhappy Californians Still Embrace the Failed Status Quo On September 17, the San Francisco Chronicle pleased the hierarchy of the California Teachers Association (CTA/NEA) union by publishing an editorial denouncing Prop. 32, a “paycheck protection” initiative. Proponents hope it will curtail the inordinate power of Big Labor and…
Read MoreBig Labor Ambivalent, but Rallies With Obama
Despite all of President Obama’s paybacks during the last four years, including the Obamacare bill, and the UAW bailout, to name 2, some Big Labor officials are refraining to participate, endorse and otherwise support the incumbent president. The last straw seemed to be a convention held in a Right to Work state with the nation’s…
Read MoreFor Unions, Labor Day Is About Grabbing More Power
Mark Mix president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, writes in investors.com Labor Day editorial: Most Americans realize that Labor Day is about celebrating workers, not union bosses. But that won’t stop Big Labor’s apologists from seizing the spotlight to demand more power. Fact is, modern unions are built on the legal…
Read MoreLabor Day Statement: “Union Officials Are Mounting A Billion Dollar Campaign to Reelect President Barack Obama”
[vsw id=”K5koHnOYrZk” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] Forced-dues funded billion dollar machine enables union officials to wield immense political clout, even though voluntary union membership continues to steadily decline Washington, DC (August 31, 2012) – Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and National Right to Work Committee, released the following…
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