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SEIU Watch

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 25, 2010 | Uncategorized

Andy Stern and the SEIU continue to be the lightening rod for undemocratic tactics within Big...

Overflow Crowd at Organizing Boot Camp

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 25, 2010 | Uncategorized

Over 600 Teamster members gathered in Covina, California for the largest yet in a series of...

FAA Reauthorization Act Spares Fedex

Posted by editor | Mar 24, 2010 | Uncategorized

With a 93-0 vote the Senate passed the FAA Reauthorization Act minus the controversial labor amendment that the Teamsters needed to organize FedEx. Now the bill goes back to the House for reconciliation. The Competitive...

Union Card Tricks Exposed

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 24, 2010 | Uncategorized

Here’s another great example of why relying on a union authorization card or membership card as a showing of interest is a terrible idea. An employee of a unionized grocer did not want to join the union. The helpful...

Soak The Rich To Create More Union Jobs

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 12, 2010 | Uncategorized

Trumka and the AFL-CIO propose a novel way to create jobs: tax Wall Street financial transactions and use the revenue to fund “infrastructure” jobs, such as road-paving. These jobs tend to be unionized. In addition, the AFL-CIO...