Unions Heart Occupy Wall Street
Unions have provided Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors with resources including office space, photocopying services and food, in exchange for the activists “…pitching in to help unions ratchet up action…
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Tobacco Workers Reject Unionization
A majority of plant workers at the second largest American cigarette company have voted against union representation, reports the Associated Press. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.’s preliminary count was 686 out…
Labor Department vs. Employers: Rewriting Advice Exemption to Benefit Unions
The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (“LMRDA”) says labor relations consultants and lawyers must report to the government on their activities if they attempt to persuade employees in a…
Battleground Ohio: John Kasich’s Collective Bargaining Reform Goes Down
Upon taking office in 2005, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels identified the power of state employees’ unions as a root cause of his state’s fiscal woes. Daniels issued an executive order…
‘Occupy Wall Street’ Steadily Becoming Just Another Big Labor Protest
Big Labor is taking over Occupy Wall Street, Lachlan Markay writes in an insightful item up at the Foundry blog. Meanwhile, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post‘s Plum Line…
Official Time
(Labor Watch, November 2011, PDF here) Title V of the U.S. Code allows federal government employees to do union work while on the job. This…
Unions: The New Barbarians
In the Washington Times today, CRC senior editor Matt Patterson compares modern-day public sector unions with the Visigoth hordes who plundered the Roman Empire in the 5th century, A.D: This vicious circle has brought…
The Price of Prison Guard Unions
(Labor Watch, October 2011, PDF here) The California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) staunchly defends California’s tough-on-crime policies, including…
NLRB’s “Quickie Election” Scheme
(Labor Watch, September 2011, PDF here) On June 21 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposed making changes to…
The NLRB vs. Religious Freedom
(Labor Watch, August 2011, PDF here) The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been in the news recently for siding with…