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Seeing Red
On Monday in the Washington Times, Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger—a protégée of outgoing SEIU President Andrew Stern—defended her and…
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Union Election May Signal a Shift in Strategy
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Andy Stern’s Debts
Purple may be the official color of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), but Andy Stern is leaving the union deep in the red.
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Dem-Packed NLRB May Rush Through Pro-Union Rulings
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Times vs. Times: The Truth on Union Corporate Influence
Once again The New York Times misses the big picture in its coverage of organized labor. The Old Grey Lady reports: [U]nion leaders had amassed an armory…
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Big Labor’s Big Disappointment
Recently Vice President Joe Biden spoke to the AFL-CIO executive council in Florida. As Ricky Ricardo used to tell Lucy, Labor thinks the Vice President’s…
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Trumka: “Well, I’m not done.”
Showing a stubborn belligerence more commonly seen in the coal mines where his father worked than in the leader of one of the largest…
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Checking In
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More Cowbell
How do you turn a company from a small Internet start-up into a billion-dollar-a-year business? We wish we knew, but we can tentatively say…
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The UAW’s Shell Game
The United Autoworkers (UAW) and GM are asking the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for a chance to play the old shell game. In back…
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Labor’s Day at the Federalist Society
Workers may get violent if their wages are cut. The United Auto Workers union (UAW) has a monopoly and was an anchor on the…
Investors' Business Daily
Memo to Spitzer: It’s Not Your Money
Disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer went on a rant last week. Hurling half-truths and red herring arguments in an article for Slate, he…
Investors' Business Daily
Pomeroy’s Lucre for Labor
Rep. Earl Pomeroy, North Dakota Democrat, is drafting legislation that would amount to a massive, employer-crippling bailout for struggling union pensions. The congressman is trying…
Investors' Business Daily
ACORN’s Pension Shell Game
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High-Stakes Board Games: What Obama’s NLRB Might Do for Big Labor
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Your Retirement or Our Political Agenda
How Politicized Investment Strategies Threaten Workers’ Pensions…
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Labor Bosses Still Expecting Bailout
American Spectator
Big Labor’s Benefits
Are unions giving Democrats a free pass on card check? At first look, it appears that way.
American Spectator
Forced Unionization: Card Check, Mandatory Arbitration, & Right to Work Panel
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Employee Free Choice Act Is Coercive Even Without Card Check
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They’re From the Government, And They’re Here To Help (Set Your Contract Terms)
American Spectator
Card Check’s Dirty Little Secret
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Government-Forced Contracts are Card Check’s Real Threat
The Employee Free Choice Act includes a Card Check section to eliminate the secret ballot in union organization elections. The outcry against this antidemocratic process…
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A Primer on the Employee Free Choice Act’s Arbitration Provision
EFCA clause allows government power to forcefully impose contracts on parties…
American Spectator
Time for a Raise
Are Democrats in Congress really not supporting a Republican bill to allow union workers to earn more money? That was not a misprint: Republicans in…
American Spectator
SOS Ballot: An Interview with Ernest Istook
Full document available in PDF Ernest Istook, Chairman of Save Our Secret Ballot (SOS Ballot), was interviewed by former Labor Department official…
American Spectator
Back from the Dead
The Employee Free Choice Act is dead, long live the Employee Free Choice Act. On Tuesday Sen. Arlen Specter D-PA announced he will be switching…
American Spectator
Obama Sells Out Union Workers
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised accountability and transparency. Last Tuesday, his administration broke that promise to yet another group. Department of Labor Secretary…
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Card Check Double Standard
Unions’ Hypocrisy on the Secret Ballot…
American Spectator
Secret Ballots for Me, But Not for Thee
American Spectator
Card Check Undermines Free Choice
American Spectator
Card Check Could Also Mean Wage and Price Controls
American Spectator
When Mexicans Have More Rights than U.S.
The Obama Administration and its nominee for Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, are seeking to all but eliminate the secret ballot in union elections, a…
American Spectator