Inside the SEIU: Funding the Left
Read Part One on SEIU’s Leftist origins; Part Two on its campaigns of intimidation; and Part Three on SEIU’s dues-skimming schemes and more. Summary: The Service Employees International…
Service Employees International Union
Inside the SEIU: “Fight for $15,” Skimming Dues, and More
Read Part One on SEIU’s Leftist origins, and Part Two on its campaigns of intimidation. Summary: The Service Employees International Union is a mainstay of the professional Left…
Inside the SEIU: Campaigning on Intimidation
Read Part One here. Summary: The Service Employees International Union is a mainstay of the professional Left and Big Labor. In Part Two of “Inside the SEIU,” we take…
Inside the SEIU: Leftist Origins
Summary: The Service Employees International Union is a mainstay of the professional Left and Big Labor. In Part One of “Inside the SEIU,” we examine the union’s origins and how it…
Another Victory for the Plucky Freedom Foundation & Workers’ Rights
Of all the claims in costly litigation mounted against the Freedom Foundation in Olympia, Wash., for its persistent efforts to notify home health-care workers about their right to pay no dues or…
Minimum Wages: To Raise, or Not to Raise?
Like most policy debates, the one on minimum wages is framed by many as a simple issue of growing vs. shrinking the economy, inflating vs deflating wages, and creating vs.
SEIU Strike Costs Taxpayers $1.5 Million in Riverside County
Healthcare workers in the Services Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 721 in Riverside County, California walked off the job to protest last week, forcing the county to spend $1.5…
Supreme Court Rulings Require Boots on the Ground and Continual Vigilance
The ongoing war between the Freedom Foundation, a free market think tank, and entrenched labor unions in Washington state is a snapshot of the greater war for workers First Amendment rights.
First They Came for Manufacturing… Then They Came for Retail
Labor unions and their front groups brought once-great American manufacturing to a painful state of dull production with over-regulation and foolish wage laws, and now they are trying to plague…
The Fight for $15 is Gone with the Wind
The Fight for $15 may soon be out of steam. Since its debut in 2012, the largely union-backed movement to raise minimum wages to $15 per hour has stolen headlines…