Union Bosses: Our Permanent Incumbents
The NLRB will invoke any technicality or questionable rule interpretation to delay or defeat workers’ attempts to decertify a union.
The Union That Won’t Take No for an Answer
In 1908, following his third unsuccessful bid for the presidency, William Jennings Bryan told the story of a Texas drunk who tries to get into a bar. The first time ...
Knox Supreme Court Decision Strengthens Worker Rights
“I strongly supported one of the [ballot] propositions and was angry that I was forced to pay to oppose it,” said Dianne Knox, reflecting on what would become a seven-year ...
Wisconsin Union Bosses Make the Best Case Against Forced Dues
Last month, Big Labor–launched recall elections, we were told, would wipe out members of the Wisconsin state senate who . . . well, it wasn’t entirely clear.
By looking at the ...
Daniels Should Have Tackled Right-to-Work
On today’s Uncommon Knowledge episode, Gov. Mitch Daniels flipped a question about his opposition to a state right-to-work law by saying that a “better question is what the right-to-work people ...
Big Labor’s Stealth Card-Check Strategy
After spending over a billion dollars to elect Barack Obama president and Democratic majorities to Congress in 2008, Big Labor thought it had bought enough support to ram through a ...
Payback in Pittsburgh
This afternoon in his speech to the union officials at the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh, President Obama reminded the union bosses in attendance of why they spent over a billion dollars getting Obama and ...
The Threat of Forced Unionism
Repeatedly pledging to Big Labor that he will sign a bill that eliminates the secret ballot in union elections, President Obama is the top cheerleader for a policy that would ...
Laboring Against Free Speech
America’s labor law is already a deck stacked against individual workers. Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether to allow further expansion of union officials’ privilege to ...
Unions Labor Against Free Choice
If politicians friendly to Big Labor seize control of Congress this November, as many expect will happen, then union officials appear poised to ram through one of the most damaging ...