Teamsters Local 107 in Philadelphia scored quite a haul (before the nepotism charges, that is.)
Lights. Camera. Infraction. Teamsters Local 107 will not be able to continue to take advantage of its lucrative position placing Philly Teamsters on sets when movies–and movie stars–come to town. From the Philadelphia Inquirer: It’s a chance to rub elbows with Hollywood stars. And make good money while doing it. For years, a select group of Teamsters [more...]

Posted Tue, 16 Mar 2010 .

Union backing in Arkansas a touchy subject
Arkansas’ Senate seat is just one battle ground against moderate Democrats who have not lived up to Big Labor’s EFCA expectations. Lt. Gov. Bill Halter released a press statement detailing more than $500,000 in campaign contributions by labor groups to Blanche Lincoln. The same release calls Blanche’s accusations that Halter’s debt has been paid off to [more...]

Posted Mon, 15 Mar 2010 .

Memo to John Sweeney: Get a Better Pollster

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Union bosses have been cooking the books. As they attempt to end secret ballot elections for employees deciding whether to join a union, labor chiefs claim to have a groundswell of support. The real numbers tell a different story.

The AFL-CIO commissioned a study – which they won’t release – claiming that 60 million Americans want a union. But prestigious polls, including questions originally crafted on behalf of the AFL-CIO and recently commissioned by the Center for Union Facts – suggest most Americans don’t want to join a union and they don’t want union bosses stealing their right to a personal, private vote. Consider:

Fully 74% of non-union workers say they would not “personally like to be a member of a labor union.”
— Zogby International poll, August 2006

64% of workers say they would prefer their present job to be non-union.
— Opinion Research Corporation Poll, March 2007
78% of Americans prefer secret ballots for union organizing.
— Opinion Research Corporation Poll, March 2007
87% agree that “every worker should continue to have the right to a federally supervised secret ballot election when deciding whether to organize a union.”
— McLaughlin and Associates, January 2007