Posts Tagged ‘union power’
Clipsheet Harris V. Quinn July 3, 2014
High Court’s Labor Ruling Likely to Weaken Union Clout in More States NewsMax Online, July 1, 2014 Messenger pointed out that two specific groups that were the targets of such “unionization schemes” are now protected. “The first group are personal-care providers,” he told Newsmax, “who provide home personal care to disabled, chronically ill, or elderly…
Read MoreThe Labor Union That Runs the Media
Cliff Kincaid reports on the Communicaitons Workers of America (CWA), union political activity, media bias and where CWA forced dues go, in the Canada Free Press. One of the major speakers at last week’s “New Populism” conference was Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a labor union which represents on-line writers,…
Read MoreWill Illinois be the Next Wisconsin?
Jonathan S. Tobin takes a look at the Illinois primary, where political novice Bruce Rauner, primary winner, intends to reduce government employee union power over the state government, in Commentary Magazine. In the past few years, public-sector unions have faced severe challenges to their ability to dictate pension and benefit packages to states and municipalities…
Read MoreNY Teacher Union Defies Police, Protects Heroin-Using School Teacher; Parents Furious
Here’s another example of teacher union bosses protecting their own interests over that of the students and the public. It seems teacher union bosses of Fallsburg, New York, now have authority over even the police. Union officials in the town areblocking police attempts to find a drug user by refusing to allow the suspects to…
Read MoreIronworkers Local is Stuck at an Earlier Evolutionary State
Karen Heller delves into details of the Reign of Terror perpetrated by Ironworkers Local 401 bosses in the Philadelphia area, in Philadelphia Inquirer. The Ironworkers were such busy, industrious goons. They allegedly destroyed sites and threatened developers who dared not hire them. Their specialties were not iron and steel, according to the recent federal…
Read MoreUnion Political Power Stronger Than Ever
An editorial from the Orange County Register outlines why Big Labor must rely on its political power. Despite favoritism from the Obama administration – privileging the United Auto Workers over secured creditors in the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies; steering stimulus funds towards unions; taking legal action against Boeing for opening a new plant in right-to-work…
Read MoreOregon and Washington Longshoremen Bosses Cited for Picketing
International Longshore and Warehouse Unionbosses continue to ignore safety andflaunt court orders to cease picketing grain barges on the Columbia and Snake Rivers, threatening barge workers who only want to do their jobs. Mateusz Perkowski has the story in the Capital Press Online. A federal judge has sanctioned the longshoremen’s union for ignoring an…
Read MoreStudents Stop Teachers Union From Killing Their Education
A heartwarming story of courage as highschoolers wrest their band, and volunteer teacher from the jaws of the teacher union doomsday machine. Volunteers are the last thing unions want to see in any field. Volunteers take away an opportunity for union officials, not only to milk the taxpayer, but to add a new forced-dues payor to…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Finance Politicians Because it Pays
James Sherk refutes Ezra Klein’s assertion that America has a “. . . deeply unbalanced political system . . .” by highlighting Big Labor’s ability to donate huge “in-kind” contributions and maintaining total control over politicians. Read more at The Corner: The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein recently lamented that America has “a deeply unbalanced political…
Read MoreA Baltimore jail scandal aided by union politics
Reading like a 1970’s report on the Teamsters, Charles Lane reports on AFSCME’s role in the Baltimore City Detention Center scandal, involving gangs and corruption, financed by mandatory dues checkoff and compulsory unionism. Here’s the story in the Washington Post. Even by the standards of America’s troubled jails and prisons, the scandal at the Baltimore…
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