WASHINGTON (AP) — The AFL-CIO on Tuesday launched a new advertising campaign to promote unions as a voice for all working people, a move that comes amid declining membership and growing hostility to organized labor in a number of states. (more)
The Daily Caller had the opportunity to sit in on “Occupy DC” labor committee meeting and learned that there will be a protest inside the Capitol building on Tuesday with The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). (more)
1.) AFL-CIO-SOS — Earlier this month, Jimmy Hoffa said this at a Detroit rally for Obama: “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.” Then Obama came out and told Hoffa how great he is. And then the libs told us Hoffa was only speaking metaphorically. And then a bunch of longshoremen in Washington state went on a rampage. And now? TheDC’s Matthew Boyle reports: “The AFL-CIO labor union appears, at least theoretically, to support violence and vandalism when union members use those tactics in the interest of furthering ‘legitimate union activity.’ Last week, top AFL-CIO lawyer Jonathan D. Newman attempted to file an amicus brief in federal court after local union officials in Buffalo, N.Y. were charged with several acts of violence. The Buffalo News reports that members of Operating Engineers Local 17 are charged with pouring sand into construction vehicles’ engines, stabbing a company executive in the neck, tossing hot coffee at non-union workers and threatening to sexually assault the wife of a company representative. ‘We’re not condoning the allegations or arguing that union officials are completely immune from prosecution,’ Newman said. ‘Instead, we simply want to make sure that the [federal law] is not interpreted in a way that could have a chilling effect on legitimate union activity.’ When The Daily Caller asked AFL-CIO spokesman Josh Goldstein if the union thinks the Supreme Court should revisit the Enmons case so union members and leaders would be treated equally under the law and could be prosecuted for violence and vandalism, Goldstein declined to answer. Instead, he deflected the question and turned it into an attack on conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart.” Well, of course. Stabbing people and threatening to rape people and breaking things is bad, sure, but at least they’re not Breitbart. (more)
The AFL-CIO labor union appears, at least theoretically, to support violence and vandalism when union members use those tactics in the interest of furthering “legitimate union activity.” (more)
DETROIT (AP) — President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country’s interests above all else and vote to create jobs and put the economy back on a path toward growth. “Show us what you’ve got,” he said. (more)
Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO president and a member of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, today questioned the panel’s value and members. (more)
On Monday the AFL-CIO submitted more than 21,000 comments on behalf of Americans who favor a new National Labor Relations Board-proposed “quickie election” rule change. (more)
President Barack Obama met behind closed doors with labor union bosses from the AFL-CIO on Tuesday morning. (more)
Big Labor showed its dissatisfaction with President Barack Obama’s economic policies on Wednesday. (more)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Craig Becker must recuse himself from the case against Boeing or violate President Barack Obama’s ethics pledge, critics say. (more)
When it comes to bad boss stories, the AFL-CIO wants to hear all about them — hosting a contest in which the most abused worker wins a weeklong vacation. The only limitation to entering — contestants can’t be employees of the AFL-CIO. (more)
The American Federation of Government Employees, a public sector union under the umbrella of the AFL-CIO, won the right today to represent the more than 40,000 airport screeners of the Transportation Security Administration. (more)
AFL-CIO union boss Richard Trumka issued a threat to Democrats nationwide at the National Press Club on Friday, calling on them to support his and other unions or face losing their support. (more)
It’s rare for a company with workers targeted by Big Labor for unionization to ask the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a unionization election. That initiative is usually taken by the unions themselves. (more)
Do you remember your last birthday? What was it that you wished for? Did you get it? I ask because this week marks Obamacare’s first birthday! Birthdays are generally a cause for joy and celebration — but this birthday is an exception. (more)
Republican Reps. Mike Turner of Ohio and Dan Burton of Indiana are asking House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, California Republican, to dig into the Obama administration’s decision to cut more than 20,000 private-sector workers’ pensions and eliminate their health and life insurance plans during the General Motors (GM) bailout in 2009. (more)
It’s not every day the AFL-CIO encourages workers to dismantle their labor union and abandon collective bargaining, but in the case of the NFL Players Association’s battle with team owners, Big Labor is cheering it on. (more)
Wisconsin’s teachers are required to teach children about the history of the labor union movement and collective bargaining in the United States, per a law former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle signed in December 2009. Wisconsin’s Assembly Bill (AB) 172 requires the state’s teachers to incorporate “the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process” into their lesson plans. (more)
As we follow events in Wisconsin, a history lesson is appropriate. History has a message for Governor Scott Walker and the people of Wisconsin whose electoral mandate he seeks to implement. It is, very simply, that Mr. Walker should not compromise. Principled leadership will prevail over the orchestrated thuggery of the public unions, notwithstanding the unions’ conspicuous support from our nation’s most aggressive “community organizers.” (more)
The Wisconsin workers who have staged a week-long protest against their union-busting governor are getting some Big Apple reinforcements. (more)
