Mobbed-up union boss sentenced to 57 months of hard time
Last week ATU Local 1181 former president Salvatore “Hotdogs” Battaglia—I couldn’t make up a better name if I tried—was sentenced to 57 months in jail for “racketeering based on the extortion of money from companies operating school buses under contract with the New York City department of Education.” The North Country Gazette reports that Mr. Hotdogs was [more...]

Posted Tue, 01 Jul 2008 .

Tink Fills His Tank With Special Interest Money
Congressional Candidate Elwyn Tinklenberg (MN-6) is making the usual end-of-quarter pitch to raise more money for his campaign. As of this morning he was only a few thousand dollars short of his goal. It’s a safe bet that union special interests have gone a long way toward helping him meet his fundraising goals. What [more...]

Posted Tue, 01 Jul 2008 .

The Flawed Case for Doing Away With Private Ballots

Union Myths from Union Mouths
Union officials rely on statistics generated by friendly and well-funded researchers, often at academic institutions, to claim that there is widespread oppression of workers’ rights.
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Commonly Misused Statistics
The only hard analysis of National Labor Relations Board data found that only 2 percent of elections involve employees being wrongfully terminated.
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Common Misunderstandings
Union officials continue to promote the idea that, even if a card check bill were signed into law, employees could still have a private vote if they wanted one. This is at best misleading. Simple logic suggests that union officials would have no reason to call for a vote if they are able to achieve the simple majority of signatures in a bargaining unit.
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