By WFI Staff It’s becoming an all too familiar script: desperate to fatten their member rolls while in urgent search of dues to fatten their pockets, union bosses are resorting to all sorts of creative enrollment methods. The latest involves … Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bosses, Politics, Unions Tagged automaker, Big Labor, big labor bosses, Card Check, cars, chattanooga, germany, secret ballots, tennessee, times free press, UAW, Union Bosses, United Auto Workers, volkswagen
By WFI Staff Not even a month on the job and freshly minted U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is already taking the federal agency in a controversial direction. We knew Perez had a checkered past, from questionable legal maneuvers while … Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bosses, Department of Labor, Politics, Unions Tagged Department of Labor, health care reform, labor department, medicaid, nurses, nursing assistants, obamacare, seniors, service employees international union, thomas perez, Union Bosses, Unions
By WFI Staff On the fifth Anniversary of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the day marked as the beginning of the massive financial meltdown we all know as the Great Recession, you’ll hear quite a bit from union bosses about the “one percent.” It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bailout, Big Labor Bosses, Politics, Unions Tagged AFL-CIO, afl-cio convention, AFSCME, Big Labor, dennis van roekel, Detroit, g. william hunter, labor bosses, labor movement, lee saunders, media trackers, Micro-unions, nba, nba players association, randi weingarten, Richard Trumka, union boss, union boss salaries, Union Bosses, Washington Free Beacon
By WFI Staff It was supposed to be the start of something fresh and new for Big Labor. But, no one could have scripted a worse week. On Monday, union chiefs were converging on the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles, … Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bailout, Big Labor Bosses, Politics, Unions Tagged AFL-CIO, afl-cio convention, Big Labor, big labor bosses, obama white house, obamacare, President Obama, Richard Trumka, Union Bosses, union chiefs
by WFI Staff When you hear the term “labor peace,” you might think of some wonderful or harmonious state of existence in which Big Labor bosses and the employers they target can get along. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Labor … Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bailout, Big Labor Bosses, Politics, Unions Tagged Big Labor, Employee Rights, federal labor laws, labor movement, labor peace, state laws, Union Bosses, Unions
As members of the venerable AFL-CIO converge on Los Angeles for their annual Big Labor pow wow, union bosses will attempt to fire up their beleaguered supporters with a long list of grievances against everyone from politicians in Washington to … Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bailout, Big Labor Bosses, NLRB, Politics, Unions Tagged AFL-CIO, afl-cio convention, Barack Obama, Big Labor, Department of Labor, labor movement, los angeles, President Obama, Richard Trumka, secretary treasurer, Union Bosses, Unions, wages, White House
by WFI Staff It’s tough to imagine a Labor Day that doesn’t work out so well for Big Labor. After all, this is the time of year that not only ushers in the official end of summer vacation, but also … Continue reading
Posted in Big Labor Bailout, Big Labor Bosses, NLRB, Politics, Unions Tagged AFL-CIO, american federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations, Big Labor, international longshor, international longshore and warehouse union, labor day, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, President Obama, Richard Trumka, robert mcellrath, Union Bosses