We here at the Union Label Blog like to keep everyone informed of groups out there that support the cause. The Evergreen Freedom Foundation is one of those that we use as a constant resource for our own work here.

One of EFF’s great resources is its horribly titled The Official Blog of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation blog. Seriously, guys. We need to help you with that name. How ’bout Unionslammajamma blog er something!?

Anyway, the TOBOTEFF is a great place where you can see some great info on the world of workplace freedom. Here, for instance is one of the latest posts over there:

Union Bailouts?

In case you missed it, the Wall Street Journal yesterday opined on financial problems with organized labor. According to the paper, by June 2008 the AFL-CIO had $90.6 million in liabilities and only $88.3 million in assets. SEIU’s liabilities are now 80 percent of its $189 million in assets.

The Journal’s conclusions:

• Labor organizations “have been spending so much on politics that they’re going deeply into debt.”
• Unions want card check to help them unionize more workers, get more in dues, and get out of debt faster.
• We need more union financial transparency. “Unions have a long history of corruption in part because they mix large amounts of cash from dues with political purposes and little oversight. Yet the same union leaders who denounce failures of corporate governance bitterly resisted the Bush Administration’s expanded disclosure, and now they want the Obama Administration to water down those rules. The news about rising union debt shows why that transparency is more necessary than ever.”

In short, unions have been spending too much money on politics, don’t want anyone to know about it, and want to change the rules to get more money. Apparently it’s not just banks and auto companies wanting federal assistance these days.

Good points from the WSJ and thanks to Evergreen for reiterating the points.

After your daily visit to theUnionLabelBlog.com, be sure and go to the TOBOTEFF for some great content. And drop them an email with your suggestions for a snappier name for the blog. Don’t tell ‘em I told you to do it, though. I got enough people mad at me! (Ha, ha)

**UPDATE**

You know how you can get an idea in your head and you move forward then blinded to anything else until someone points it out to you? Then you sit there and wonder how you could have been so blind? Well, mark this up as one of those instances for yours truly. All this time I’ve been going to LIBERTY LIVE which just happens to the the official blog of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation and I never realized the darn thing was CALLED LIBERTY LIVE! I got it in my head that the blog was called TOBOTEFF, and that was that.

So, thanks to a note from the kind folks at LIBERTY LIVE, I am corrected, chastened, and happy that they weren’t as ridiculous as I thought in naming the blog.

Anyway, all this time I’ve been going there and I missed that salient fact!

Maybe my wife is right. I don’t listen. But, I thought I was just not listening to her! Ha, ha. Crazy.

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