Posts Tagged ‘rank and file’
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 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 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 MoreChicago Bosses Take Aim at Mayor
Dane Placko, Fox 32 News, Chicago, unearths SEIU Bosses’ campaign to punish Mayor Rahm Emmanuel for considering privatizing airport custodian jobs. It’s just another example of union bosses’ utter disregard for rank and file members, as they spend possibly millions of dollars to help their dues-paying members. For several weeks, members of the Service Employees…
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 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 MoreBoilermakers union’s pension funds have a long record of federal scrutiny
Rank and file Boilermakers deplore their bosses’ corruption, and the Labor Department’s protracted investigations. Documents obtained by The Star implicate union bosses in pension fund losses by every sort of method possible: nepotism, preference given to family members, excessive monetary gifts to union employees, conflicts of interest, cronyism, outrageous gratuities and perks. Letters between…
Read MoreIn Camden, Not Fighting Crime Pays
The situation with police union officials in Camden, New Jersey, just keeps getting worse. NILRR previously reported on the mayor’s decision to make union officials actually work as officers in order to alleviate the rank and file officers’ being overworked. The city will receive its protection from the non-union Camden County police force. LaborPains.org has…
Read MoreNew Jersey Mayor Alleviates Rank and Files’ Burden
What better way to relieve police and firefighter rank-and-file union members who are overworked? Send their union officials back onto the street. Camden, New Jersey’s mayor is putting a stop to “official time” for union officials on the city’s police and firefighter forces. NJ.com has the details: Mayor Dana Redd mayor is telling officials in…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – May 25, 2012
Union Bosses Set Forest Fire Captain’s Religious Rights Ablaze www.nrtw.org, May 21, 2012 With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Susanville firefighter John Valentich filed the charge against the CDFF union with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission located in San Francisco. What’s…
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