At Capital Research Center’s labor conference today, we learned that Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has decided not to vote for cloture on the so-called card check legislation (the misnamed proposed…
Organized labor recently disrupted a Senate committee hearing on “card check,” the legislation that would take away the democratic right to a secret ballot on whether to join a union.
We have obtained a copy of the complaint filed by the ACORN whistleblowers known as the ACORN 8. The ACORN 8 was founded by expelled ACORN national board members Marcel Reid…
Former Labor Department official F. Vincent Vernuccio has a good op-ed in today’s Washington Times about the pending card check legislation. Vernuccio notes that while the secret ballot in…
President-elect Obama’s choice of Rep. Hilda Solis (D-California), a champion of labor, as his labor secretary had led to outbreaks of ideological ecstasy among the Big Labor establishment. But once…
Illinois’s corrupt Democratic governor, Rod Blagojevich, reportedly wanted to muscle out Change to Win chairman Anna Burger, who is also secretary-treasurer of Service Employees International Union (SEIU). (Sam…
Some union members in Illinois just don’t know what to do after the Illinois-based Republic Windows and Doors closed down. Says union member Armando Robles, “I do whatever I…
Timothy Carney had an excellent post in yesterday’s DC Examiner regarding the possible bailout of the Big Three automakers. Carney points out that a bailout of the car companies…
Robert Tracinski of The Intellectual Activist wrote a great op-ed on why bailing out the big automakers in Detroit is a really, really, really bad idea. It begins: He…
Although Democratic Party owner George Soros didn’t make the “O List” published by the New Republic, two individuals associated with his Democracy Alliance, the secretive liberal billionaires’ club, did. The…