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PA Unions Still Exempt from Harassment, Continue Harassing with Impunity

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/09/2014

A couple of months ago, the FBI unsealed an indictment against a combination of 10 Philadelphia Ironworkers members and officials, which exposed a loophole in…

Labor and Employment

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Gawker Article Says “Unions Should Buy a Fast Food Franchise”

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/08/2014

But would workers really be better off if a union owned a fast-food franchise or any other kind of business? Gawker author Hamilton Nolan thinks…

Labor and Employment

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OPM Director Archuleta Promotes Public Service Recognition Week, Quiet on Federal Employees Performing Union Business

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/08/2014

Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuelta is one of several high-level bureaucrats that are promoting Public Service Recognition Week, and will participate in a…

Labor and Employment

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California Hospital Association Submits to SEIU Demands, Signs “Labor Peace Agreement”

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/07/2014

On May 5, 2014, after months of applying public pressure on the California Hospital Association, the SEIU-UHW won its coveted "labor peace agreement," which would…

Labor and Employment

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UAW Continues VW Unionization Campaign, Violates Neutrality Agreement

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/06/2014

Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted against UAW representation in February. But the UAW still hasn't gotten the message.

Labor and Employment

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SEIU Deploys Top-Down Organizing Tactics against California Hospitals

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/05/2014

Labor unions no longer gain worker support prior to kicking off organizing campaigns. Now they find it much easier to apply public pressure and intimidate…

Labor and Employment

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Congressional Scorecard Update: Minimum Wage Fairness Act of 2014

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/30/2014

Today, the Minimum Wage Fairness Act of 2014, a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, failed to gain enough support…

Labor and Employment

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Congressional Scorecard Update: Confirmation of David Weil to Wage and Hour Division

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/29/2014

On April 28, 2014, the U.S. Senate confirmed another ardent Big Labor supporter, David Weil, to serve as the administrator of the Wage and Hour…

Labor and Employment

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California Labor Board Obstructing Farm Workers Union Decertification Bid

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/24/2014

Outdated labor law has led to the problem of inherited unions. Research done by the Center for Union Facts has found that less than 10…

Labor and Employment

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UAW Drops Volkswagen Union Election Appeal

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/21/2014

Remember when the United Auto Workers lost in a unionization vote at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and filed an appeal to overturn the…

Labor and Employment

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Ohio Constitution Prohibits Union Release Time

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 03/19/2014

Yesterday, Media Trackers reported the Ohio Centerville Classroom Teachers Association membership agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement that is still waiting on approval from…

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Car Dealership Takes Advantage of Union Tactics

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 03/18/2014

A common practice of labor unions is to use myriad tactics -- protests, picketing, intimidation, and coordinating with progressive allies -- to apply pressure on…

Labor and Employment

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The Law Should Not Enable Union Violence

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 03/05/2014

A general contractor is approached by a representative of a local union and told he “needed to hire a certain number of his guys.” When…

Labor and Employment

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Michigan Unions Intimidate Workers Who Take Advantage of Right-to-Work

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/28/2014

It seems ever time union privilege is threatened, unions turn to intimidation.

Labor and Employment

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Missouri Constitution Protects Workers’ Paychecks

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/27/2014

Legislators in Missouri are attempting to enact paycheck protection legislation that would end the practice of using government resources to collect dues from government union…

Labor and Employment

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Vermont Child Care Unionization Bill Is Back

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/25/2014

In Vermont, home child care providers have rallied together to fend off unwanted legislation that would allow unions to organize providers in the 2012 and…

Labor and Employment

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Federal Employment Is Not a Full Time Job

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/24/2014

An excellent editorial by the Investor's Business Daily staff questioned whether "government work is a full time job?"…

Labor and Employment

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UAW Cites “Interference,” Appeals Volkswagen Vote

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/23/2014

In an example of the pot calling the kettle black, the United Auto Workers union has filed an appeal with the National Labor Relations Board…

Labor and Employment

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GSA Contest to Identify and Reduce Travel Inefficiencies: Eliminate Official Time

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/21/2014

According to a recent General Services Administration announcement, the agency is dolling out a combined $90,000 in prizes to individuals who can "design and create…

Labor and Employment

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Big Labor’s Insatiable Greed

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/20/2014

Yesterday, the Fiscal Times ran an article entitled, "Big Labor’s Mounting Feud with Barack Obama."…

Labor and Employment

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Phoenix City Council Disregards Union Release Time Ruling

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/19/2014

In a prior post, I discussed how the Goldwater Institute has resurrected the constitutional amendment, known as the "Gift Clause," that restricts state and local…

Labor and Employment

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Chicago Government Unions Advocate against the Public Interest

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/18/2014

Proponents of public-sector unionism claim it creates amicable labor-management relations and leads to an efficient, effective government workforce, which in turn promotes the public interest.

Labor and Employment

Blog

UAW Loses Volkswagen Election

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/15/2014

A little over two years ago, soon-to-be former United Auto Workers President Bob King said that “organizing foreign auto plants is a matter of life…

Labor and Employment

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Mississippi Bills Aim to Eliminate Union Privileges

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/14/2014

Yesterday, the Mississippi Senate passed three bills that rein in union privilege.

Labor and Employment

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Union Support for Minimum and Living Wage Laws Based on Self-Interest

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/12/2014

Across the country, labor unions advocate for increases in the minimum wage, along with proposals to create "living wage" laws. Unions publicly argue that these…

Labor and Employment

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Unintended Consequences of Employee Rights Poster Rule

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/11/2014

In the past several years, both the National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor have required various kinds of employers to hang a "poster"…

Labor and Employment

Blog

NLRB Proposes Ambush Election Regulation

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/05/2014

As I previously noted in a December post, as soon as the National Labor Relations Board settled its lawsuit with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce…

Labor and Employment

Blog

NLRB Pro-Union Bias Takes Away Worker Choice

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 02/03/2014

Now that the National Labor Relations Board -- the agency responsible for governing private-sector labor disputes -- has a full quorum, it is ready to…

Labor and Employment

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Arizona Judge Rules Union Release Time Unconstitutional

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 01/29/2014

After about two years of litigation by the Goldwater Institute, the practice of union release time in Arizona has been declared unconstitutional.

Labor and Employment

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Idaho Constitution: Tax Dollars to Private Entities Is Illegal

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 01/27/2014

Year in and year out, Idaho lawmakers’ inaction keeps in place wasteful practices that funnel tax dollars to special interest groups.

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