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Andy Stern, former head of the Service Employees International Union, dismissed news reports that he was under scrutiny for a book contract and salary payments.

Posted in Politics, Unions

The FBI and the U.S. Labor Department are investigating prominent labor leader Andy Stern in their probe of corruption at the Service Employees International Union.

Posted in Politics, Unions

An SEIU spokeswoman flatly denied an Associated Press and Los Angeles Times reports today that the union and its former president Andy Stern are subject to an FBI investigation.

Posted in Politics, Unions

Organized labor’s string of recent victories at area hospitals came to a halt when workers at Lee’s Summit Medical Center rejected union representation.

Posted in Unions

Unelected members of an administrative agency single-handedly upended a very basic principle called “majority rule” meaning more than half of a unit must approve the formation of a union.

Posted in Politics, Unions

The National Mediation Board approved a new rule last week that makes it easier to organize workers in the airline and railroad industries. Senate Republicans tried to oppose the change last Thursday, but failed in a vote of 56-43.

Posted in Politics, Unions

Senator Michael Bennet’s vote today to undo decades of “majority rule” in labor elections and grease the path to imposing unions on Colorado workers ends any pretense that Bennet is not comfortably in the corner of Big Labor.

Posted in EFCA, Politics, Unions

It was disappointing to see Senator Reid side with Big Labor bosses and vote against workers on this issue, and choose forced unionization instead of a fair process.

Posted in EFCA, Politics, Unions

The Hudson Institute on Tuesday released a report condemning some union pensions as being “Ponzi schemes” because a dwindling number of union members are paying into the plans while a growing number of retirees rely on the funds to meet … Continue reading

Posted in Unions

President Obama will spend Labor Day alongside AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the union announced Monday.

Posted in Politics, Unions

As if Big Labor hasn’t already squeezed enough out of Congress with payoffs upon payoffs, they are now positioning themselves for one last-ditch effort to achieve the mother of all gifts, the job-killing Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act (EFCA).

Posted in EFCA, Politics, Unions

Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles and candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, invoked the American dream during the weekly Republican address.

Posted in Campaigns & Elections, Politics

As we move past Colorado’s primary election and begin the push to November, it’s clear that one of the defining issues for business — and for candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives — is the misleadingly named … Continue reading

Posted in EFCA

The much anticipated flood of special interest groups investing big dollars in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race is beginning to take shape.

Posted in Campaigns & Elections, EFCA, Politics

A bill involving “card check” unionizing for farmworkers has cleared the Legislature in California.

Posted in EFCA

Gov. Charlie Crist took six questions from the crowd at the AFL-CIO conference in Jacksonville Friday. Two of them were about the Employee Free Choice Act, which Crist could be voting on if he’s elected to the U.S. Senate.

Posted in Campaigns & Elections, EFCA