Posts Tagged ‘union power’
“It’s the Union’s Job to Encourage Unrest, Discontent and Unhappiness . . .”
Elijah Grajkowski,Wisconsin public school teacher, explains why he would rather teach in freedom. Read his entire story in the Journal-Sentinel Online. If the teachers union is as wonderful as it claims, then it should have no problem attracting members, without the need to force teachers to join. For years, I have chosen not to be…
Read MoreTaste of the Future
John Podhoretz puts a new angle on the New York City bus strike, predicting other cities will experience the same sort of trouble as public sector union bosses lose more and more power. Here’s the story in the New York Post. There’s a major labor action going on in New York City, as the…
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 MoreCalifornia’s Monopoly Bargaining Debacle
It has long been suspected that California government employee unions wield enormous power, with glittering, golden retirement plans. Ivan Osorio analyzes a report by Bloomberg reporters on openmarket.org. This isn’t a case of a handful of isolated incidents. The team of Bloomberg reporters found a pattern of fiscal irresponsibility characterized by: â– Lack of control in…
Read MoreMonopoly Bargaining and Ilinois’ Eve of Destitution
Paul Kersey, Illinois Policy Institute, explores the consequences of Illinois government union employee bargaining laws and how it will hamstring the government attempting to keep costs reined in. Like an insidious leak, eventually government employee union monopoly bargaining will destroy the government’s ability to govern. So, the health benefit law allows – indeed calls for…
Read MoreCourt Denies Injunction in Port Strike
The Daily Labor Report reveals Judge Michael H. Simon of the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon denied an NLRB petition to hold the ILWU and two locals in contempt of a previous injunction against secondary actions and threats in the ongoing strike at the Port of Portland, Oregon. Lawrence Dubé has…
Read MoreSEIU Corporate Campaigns Include Tabloid Tactics
SEIU’s union organizers will not stop at almost nothing to gain their organizing ends. Perhaps most egregious of all is the way its “street demonstrations, ” supposedly spontaneous grass-roots affairs organized by the rank and file, are, in reality, carefully orchestrated by organizers steeped in the radical Saul Alinsky philosophy. The goal is to harass…
Read MoreLabor Day is for Taxpayers, Not Unions
Matthew Brouillette, president and CEO of The Commonwealth Foundation, recognizes government employee labor unions’ forced dues power and Labor Day in the Patriot News: As the sun sets on a sizzling summer, celebrations with family and friends will mark another Labor Day. But few citizens will recall or cheer the nationwide railroad union strike, featuring…
Read More“How Government Unions control America and rob Taxpayers Blind”
A shocking look at the underside of government employee unions, Brad Decker interviews Mallory Factor on his best-selling book “Shadowbosses,” in The Washington Times. His new bestseller, “Shadowbosses,” shines the light on how “government unions control America and rob taxpayers blind.” You can find out more about Mr. Factor’s work at: malloryfactor.com. Decker: Your new…
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…
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