How Much Did Andy Stern Know?

Ivan Osorio questions how much Andy Stern and the SEIU national affiliate knew about Tyrone Freeman’s illegal activities before they came to light in openmarket.org. The important question that the Labor Department needs to ask now is: What did Stern and the rest of the SEIU leadership know and when did they know it? And…

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SEIU Has Big Plans for Midwest Workers

SEIU Local 1’s 2013 Strategic Plan reveals a goal of forcing thousands of guards and airportworkers into unwanted representation.A majority of the workers perform janitorial or security duties. The plan also boasts it will help the “99%” achieve equity with the “1%.” This “1%” must include some SEIU officials, considering their hefty salaries. Luke Rosiak…

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Ex-SEIU Executive Convicted of Stealing from Low-Income Members

SEIU, one of the most notorious unions for corporate campaigns, and forcing workers with low-paying jobs into paying dues for little, if any, representation, slithers to new lows.  Paul Pringle and Hailey Branson-Potts have the story in the Los Angeles Times Online. Tyrone Freeman, who represented about 190,000 homecare workers as a leader of the…

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Phyllis Schlafly – Union Political Spending in 2012

Phyllis Schlafly, on moralliberal.com comments on union bosses’ use of forced dues to elect President Obama to his second term.  Today we are inaugurating Barack Obama for his second term. Let’s talk about just one of the reasons he won his campaign for reelection. The union called SEIU was the top spender on Democratic campaigns this year,…

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Anti-RTW Protesters Have Forced Dues Connection

Jack Spencer, Michigan Capitol Confidential, has the story of those Michigan Right to Work protestors who were arrested and their connection with an SEIU forced dues scheme perpetrated on Michigan home caregivers. Seven of the eight people facing felony charges for their alleged actions on Dec.6 at the State Capitol are affiliated with the SEIU…

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Connecticutt Government Unions Take the Cake – and Everything Else

Connecticutt government unions and binding arbitrationhave conspired to deplete the state’s coffers through monopoly bargaining benefits. A stunning look at what taxpayers lose through binding arbitration. Zarchary Janowski has the story in Publicsectorinc.org. In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene in 2011, more than 100 Connecticut state employees fraudulently applied for disaster food aid meant to…

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Not a firing offense: drinking, smoking pot, endangering people, child abuse

Jillian Kay Melchior, National Review Online, writes about the union intimidation tactics union bosses used to further their goals when they do not get what they want in negotiations. An excellent reason to abolish monopoly bargaining and exclusive representation. The trouble in Connecticut began last year, when Healthbridge Management tried to negotiate a new contract…

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“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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SEIU President Calls Right to Work Bill “Dangerous”

From the SEIU.org website: SEIU International President, Mary Kay Henry made an appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show last night after Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed the so-called “Right-to-Work” bill into law, despite the presence of more than 17,000 workers at the State Capitol building yesterday urging him not to sign. This dangerous law is…

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