The United Auto Workers has announced that it will join a coalition of unions called the BlueGreen Alliance in an effort to push “green jobs.”
I was amused by what BlueGreen Alliance founder Leo Gerard said of this addition to the group.
“The American auto industry is [...]
What happens when a private sector union gets far too many benefits to the point where the business for which its membership works goes under or whose existence is threatened? Punishment. Unions either take a reduction of benefits or pay — or both — and [...]
Over at Tom Blumer’s Bizzy Blog, we can see evidence that the United Auto Workers did, indeed, throw their retirees under the bus in its recent contract negotiations with Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Also, contrary to the way The New York Times reported the story, [...]
Here is yet another story where union members undergoing disciplinary procedures can sometimes spend years being paid their full salary to sit home and watch TV, doing nothing, working not a minute of their day. In this case it is costing a local school system [...]
A long strike is finally over and the end story is one of great triumph because workers finally got what they wanted: to be rid of the union! They’ve been trying to decertify the union since May of 2007 and the government finally granted their [...]
