One week from today in what is predicted to be a low-turnout election, voters will elect a new mayor to lead California’s largest city. Because the mayor manages the 47,000 employees of the City of Los Angeles, at least 47,000 voters employed by that city have a strong interest in who wins. But these workers...
Summary: At the behest of unions desperate for new members, the U.S. Labor Department plans to make a major regulatory shift. The change has no basis in existing law or precedent, and it will harm labor-management relations while costing billions of dollars. A shocking change in American labor relations is brewing at the U.S. Department of...
Union excess, echoed with approval by their media allies, especially in liberal San Francisco, has hit an almost absurd level. Non-union hotels like Hyatt are inexplicably vilified in the liberal press. The nurses at the University of California’s hospitals, including U.C. San Francisco, have gone on strike, over, among other things, their objections to “unprecedented executive excess.” ...
Last week, OSHA joined the ranks of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Department of Labor (DOL), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in furthering the Obama Administration’s push to implement “card check” as pay back for Big Labor’s political contributions and ground game support during the past two Presidential Elections (see past...
Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Madison teachers want to keep union alive with another contract extension By Steven Verburg, May 7, 2013, Wisconsin State Journal Madison teachers want to bargain...
Control. It is the most pressing priority for the leadership of Big Labor. They need to control the masses, and in order to do that they most control the terms of employment, and they must control the benefits of employment. For this reason, the Big Labor bosses oppose employee incentive raises. They create discord and...
Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Kansas Law Lets Teachers Choose Political Donations By Ben DeGrow, April 30, 2013, Heartland News A labor expert says a new Kansas law adopted this...
Is the Public Sector at War with the Private Sector? The labor movement has been losing steam in the U.S. for decades, with the unionization rate having declined from a high of one third of the private-sector workforce in the late 1950s to under 7 percent today. yet, unions have been, until recently, gaining strength...
Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Could Michigan’s right-to-work law cause bullying of union holdouts? By Melissa Anders, April 23, 2013, Michigan Live Michigan’s right-to-work law has raised concerns among some...
Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Teachers Unions Target Charter Schools By Sandy Fitzgerald, 16 April 16, 2013, Newsmax Labor groups are pushing for more involvement in the nation’s charter schools,...
The Sinking Ship of Cabotage Summary: The Jones Act is a 1920 law that protects the U.S. maritime industry from competition. It also raises costs for many other industries, keeps foreign ships from helping when disasters like the BP oil spill strike, and seems to be slowly killing the very industry it’s supposed to protect....
Labor unions have a virtual lock on Illinois politics. Unionized government delivers services ever-less efficiently in rough proportion to its ever-increasing size. It promulgates taxes and regulations that stifle private sector growth. It’s impossible to break the unions’ grip on Illinois’ fiscal health. Substitute “Michigan” for “Illinois” and one might have said the same thing...
A couple of weeks ago, the Union Conservatives, a group of U.A.W. workers lead by Terry Bowman, hosted the Workplace Freedom Celebration to commemorate the inaugural day of Right-to-Work (“RTW”) in Michigan. It was truly a special kickoff for RTW in a state known for being the union capital of the world. It was particularly special since the grassroots...
Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Sutter worker files another complaint against union Kathy Robertson, April 9, 2013, Sacramento Business Journal A respiratory care worker at Sutter Roseville Medical Center has...