EconomyCommentary
California’s ‘Billionaire Tax’ Is a Trojan Horse
California’s biggest union is once again up to no good. Dissatisfied with the piles of cash they’ve already stolen from California high-earning taxpayers, who are… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Democrats Engage in the Political Messaging Equivalent of Suicide-by-Cop
What do you call it when a Hispanic Democrat like Sen. Alex Padilla plays the victim after harassing federal law enforcement? We’ve seen two examples… Read More
PoliticsNews
If Elected, Harris Will Carry Biden’s Torch as ‘Most Pro-Union President’
Remember when then-candidate Joe Biden promised to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen”? It’s been a go-to line during his presidency. And as his term draws to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
SEIU Brings Progressive Union Politics to Philly
The Service Employees International Union’s 2024 convention might have provided the infamously progressive union with an opportunity to refocus its efforts on workplace representation over divisive, ideologically… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The Dark Side of Big Labor: How SEIU Is Exploiting Border Crisis
As unprecedented numbers of illegal aliens overwhelm the southern border, the United States faces the worst illegal immigration crisis in its history. But for one infamously… Read More
Media Matters: Do as We Say, Not as We Do
Media Matters rejects the “myth” that “unions reduce business competitiveness.” Unions “can increase individual firms’ productivity,” in fact, they say – apparently so long as that firm… Read More
Union Dues Force Home Care Workers to Support Their Undoing at Polls
While union workers go door to door in California to recruit dues-paying providers of home care services, union officials push a ballot initiative that could unravel… Read More
Exclusive: Home-Care Mom Questions Union’s ‘Fine Print’ Dues Drive
Linda Dobbs was confused. Because she had been paying union dues each month for 15 months, Dobbs thought she already was a card-carrying union member…. Read More
Morning Bell: Can Hostess Save the Twinkies from the Union?
Taking down the Twinkie. Clogging Wal-Mart parking lots on Black Friday. Messing with a major airport on the day before Thanksgiving. If unions are trying… Read More
California Union Members Demand Transparency from Union Bosses
Members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have launched a protest against their own union in California over waste and corruption. They rallied outside… Read More
House Considers RAISE-ing Workers’ Wages
The RAISE Act would rewrite the National Labor Relations Act to make union rates only a minimum wage. If employers wanted to, they could always… Read More
Supreme Court Upholds Workers’ Rights Not to Fund Union Politics
Today’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of nonunion workers in Knox v. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) significantly strengthens nonunion members’ First Amendment rights not… Read More
News
‘Occupy Wall Street’ Steadily Becoming Just Another Big Labor Protest
News that two major labor unions will co-opt an “Occupy” protest in Washington next month solidifies two facts about the waning protest movement: it is… Read More
SEIU Tells Workers to ‘Disobey Laws’ In Effort to Undermine Employers
A Service Employees International Union “contract campaign manual,” recently released as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the union, reveals a host of unseemly tactics… Read More
NEW VIDEO: Collective Bargaining 101
The fight to balance Wisconsin’s state budget intensified yesterday as Governor Scott Walker issued an ultimatum to Democratic Senators who have refused to return to… Read More
When the Going Gets Tough, Unions Protest
What happens when the going gets tough for unions? They protest, even if they don’t have a legitimate reason to do it (other than an… Read More
Video of the Week: Three Reasons Why Public Sector Unions are Killing the Economy
The folks over at Reason.tv have produced a great video explaining how public sector unions are stifling economic recovery. It notes that unionized workers already… Read More
Morning Bell: Andy Stern’s America
Last night, Politico reported that Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern is expected to resign and, according to The New York Times, the resignation… Read More
SEIU’s White House Visits Are Paying Off
While most Americans were enjoying a weekend away from work, President Obama kept busy Saturday afternoon, appointing one of Big Labor’s lawyers to a post… Read More
Craig Becker: Big Labor’s Big Ally
It’s hard not to sympathize with organized labor—at least to some extent. After all, during the 2008 elections, unions donated roughly half a billion dollars… Read More
Video: The True Nature of the SEIU
There is no entity with closer ties to the Obama administration than the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). According to the White House visitor logs… Read More
For Obama, Some Unions Are More Equal Than Others
The Service Employees International Union takes the top prize as President Obama’s favorite labor union. President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger have visited the… Read More
Giving Thanks for the Secret Ballot
Organized labor has demonstrated why workers should spend some time this Thanksgiving giving thanks for the secret ballot. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and… Read More
Morning Bell: Big Labor Is Bankrupting Our Country
Last month when the White House released its visitor log for the first six months of the Obama presidency, one name appeared far more often… Read More
Big Labor and Big Government Are Officially the Same Thing
Who do the words “union members” bring to mind? United Auto Workers building cars in Detroit? Teamsters truckers hauling freight? Steel workers in Pennsylvania? Not… Read More
As They Say On Twitter: SEIU FAIL
As the old saying in Washington goes: if you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger. Nobody knows this strategy better than the Service Employees… Read More
LA Times: SEIU Wants It Both Ways On Workers’ Rights
Critics of the Employee Free Choice Act have called it a misnomer – a law that would, in fact, restrict workers’ free choice. EFCA would… Read More
The SEIU’s Counter-Espionage Campaign … Against Its Own Members
For some time now, it’s been clear that Organized Labor—and the SEIU in particular—is adamantly opposed to allowing its members to have any say over… Read More
Public Sector Unions Gone Wild
This morning we warned you about the The Public-Sector Union Threat to Economic Recovery. Reason.tv’s Nick Gillespie has a new video out showing how even… Read More
Morning Bell: The Public-Sector Union Threat to Economic Recovery
Last week the Department of Labor reported that employers shed a net 539,000 jobs in the month of April, bringing the nation’s unemployment rate to… Read More
