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. Organized labor agenda gains steam with turn in Minnesota Capitol politics By Rachel E. Stassen-Berger and Jim Ragsdale, March 5, 2013, Star Tribune Minnesota’s labor...
“Shadowbosses, Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind,” was published in August 2012. Written by Mallory Factor, a professor of politics at The Citadel and Forbes columnist, this book ought to be required reading for every American. Two weeks ago, Factor was a guest speaker at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 2013 West Coast...
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. End City Hall’s ‘Pay to Play’ Kleptocracy By Jack Humphreville, February 26, 2013, CityWatch LA There is a raging torrent of cash totaling $20 million...
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. Jerry Brown administration digs in against unions on pensions By Anthony York, February 18, 2013, Los Angeles Times Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration is pushing back...
Obamacare, officially known as the “Affordable Care Act”, is quickly proving to be so unaffordable that neither businesses nor labor unions want anything to do with it. In increasing numbers, US business complain about ‘Obamacare’ costs (but they are not the only ones). David Dillon, chief executive of the Kroger supermarket chain, told the Financial...
Since I served in the leadership of several national business associations and was formerly the Regional Representative at the U.S. Department of Labor, I’m often asked about the power of unions vs. the power of business. I always answer the question the same way: There is no such thing as unorganized labor. Unions almost always out-organize...
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. The State of the Unions: With labor under full-scale attack, President Obama must speak up By Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President, February 12, 2013, In...
“There’s a difference between being liberal and progressive and being a union Democrat.” San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, Bloomberg The most powerful defenders of that broken system, without a question, is the teachers’ union.” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Sacramento Press If you wish to challenge the conventional wisdom, that Democrats and liberals march in...
In his guest column last month in the Orange County Register, “Right to Work sets workers free to freeload,” Kevin O’Leary made some strong points for standing against the National Right to Work movement. Persuasive? Yes. Completely accurate? No. As a public school teacher working in California, I have 25 years of experience dealing with...
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. Michigan Union Tell-All: A memo shows how unions hope to keep coercing worker dues Editorial, February 5, 2013, Wall Street Journal When Michigan became the...
If you don’t read our weekly Union Watch Highlights, where we compile links and excerpts from the most relevant stories across the U.S. concerning union activity and union reform, this week would be a good time to start. Because across the country, an increasing percentage of state legislatures are beginning to seriously confront the challenges...
Last Friday’s opinion by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals was a profound blow to Big Labor’s aspirations to achieve card check through use of regulatory action (see blog Card Check through Regulation vs. Legislation), especially after the re-election of President Obama and recent decisions by the pro-labor NLRB to extend Big Labor’s political money...
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. Can Latinos Save Labor Unions? By Kathleen Miles, January 28, 2013, The Huffington Post Facing an onslaught of anti-union legislation and the pressure of outsourcing,...
This month, a front group for organized labor called the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) is asking Los Angeles diners to embrace a half-baked new “Diners’ Guide” that ranks restaurants based on their labor practices. In reality, this is a hypocritical ploy done for the benefit of ROC’s labor allies, not the general public. Given ROC’s history of...