September 10, 2007 - 2:42 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
Below is a coalition letter signed by close to 20 groups, including Citizen Outreach Project, urging the Senate to use budget-neutral methods to restore full funding to the Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS) as requested by the President…
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September 7, 2007 - 9:21 am - Posted by WTH
We here at The Union Label blog are simply unable to believe this story. It’s all just so scandalous. The New York Times’ Steven Greenhouse gives us a shocking report that the Mob has been controlling the New York City school bus union.
I know… hard to believe, ain’t it?
NOT!
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Report Says Mobsters Controlled Bus Union
An independent counsel appointed to investigate the union representing 15,000 New York City school bus drivers has concluded that there is substantial evidence that “organized crime has infiltrated and controlled” it.
The counsel’s report, written in January and made public yesterday by dissident union members, said that top officers of the union, Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, were involved in what it called racketeering activity that included extortion, kickbacks and bribes.
Salvatore Battaglia, the local’s former president, is facing trial on federal charges accusing him of extortion, receiving bribes and hiding Mafia involvement in the union. He has pleaded not guilty. The local’s secretary-treasurer, Julius Bernstein, was forced to resign by federal prosecutors and has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice.
The independent counsel, Richard W. Mark, called on the parent union to bring internal charges against Mr. Battaglia and Mr. Bernstein and to conduct a further investigation “to determine the extent of criminal activity.”
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September 5, 2007 - 1:37 pm - Posted by Doug Bandow
When Congress returns after Labor Day the Democratic majority will return to the business of paying off its campaign debts to organized labor, which spent lavishly to elect Democrats in 2006. That means helping unions and hurting workers.
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September 5, 2007 - 9:51 am - Posted by WTH
Ya, gotta love this one. Union Free America is awarding the Teamsters their “Most Decertified Union Award” because they are being knocked down by their own membership.
Read on and enjoy…
Teamsters Union Wins 2007 Most Decertified Union Award
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is the winner of Union Free America’s 2nd Annual “Most Decertified Union Award.” This honor is awarded to the labor union that lost the most decertification elections during the preceding 12 months.
The judging was based on an analysis of the reports of election results on the National Labor Relations Board’s web site for the period August 2006 through July 2007. During that time the NLRB conducted 353 decertification elections. Employees seeking to rid themselves of a union won 236 or 67 percent of them.
The Teamsters union won the “Most Decertified Union Award” by being decertified 61 times during that period. The Teamsters were involved in a total of 86 decertification elections of which they lost 71 percent.
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September 4, 2007 - 2:36 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
As everyone knows, Big Labor has it in for Wal-Mart big time. Everyone knows it because Wal-Mart is such a high-profile retail operation that everyone hates…except the millions of people who shop and work there. But most people probably don’t know much about what arguably is the second most hated non-union company in America, Cintas. Here’s some background on this company which is providing a huge number of well-paid jobs to a huge number of unskilled workers and which is under constant union assault…
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September 3, 2007 - 5:57 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
HAPPY NON-UNION LABOR DAY: As we fire up the grill and crack open a cold one (or two) to celebrate this year’s Labor Day, let us not lose sight of the fact that without employers, entrepreneurs and business owners willing to take risks in a free-market economy, there would be no jobs. Let us also not forget that labor unions don’t create jobs. In fact, quite often they kill them. So happy non-union Labor Day everyone! And don’t forget to thank your boss tomorrow.
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September 2, 2007 - 5:30 am - Posted by WTH
Union on Film — Putting Labor Day in your Netflix queue.
By Bret Jacobson, National Review online
You’ve got the extra day off. You might as well use it to appreciate the “labor” in Labor Day. Here’s one way: Click over to Netflix and order up some union classics. One warning: There’s only a remote chance you’ll like what you see.
Since people don’t talk as much about unions as they used to, here are some recommendations: On the Waterfront, Norma Rae, and the Academy Award–winning documentary American Dream. Between them there’s corruption, violence, strikes, shady organizing tactics, and Marlon Brando before he swelled to the size of the labor movement.
First up is the defining moment for labor in film, On the Waterfront. It’s not a spoiler to remind you that this flick featured the young Brando who “coulda been a contender.” The movie has it all, including a corrupt union boss up to his neck in organized crime, and violence toward those who don’t go along with the program.
How times (and the docks) haven’t changed.
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