“Unions” on The Daily Caller

After The Daily Caller reported that former Michigan Congressman Pete Hoekstra, currently the frontrunner for the state’s Republican nomination for Senate, opposed all Right to Work legislative efforts, at federal and state levels, the candidate changed his position: he now supports a national Right to Work law. (more)

My father has always been my hero. His story is the classic American story of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps, working hard and enjoying the fruits of America’s free market system. (more)

The Labor Department is expected to soon finalize new “persuader regulations” that would force labor lawyers, consultants and specialty firms to publicly disclose all of their financial and personal information. (more)

For years, the United States Postal Service (USPS), a dinosaur in the Digital Age, has been hemorrhaging financially because of its inability to respond to market forces. And now members of Congress have found themselves in a position where they cannot simply punt the agency’s problems further down the road. But they probably will do just that. (more)

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Union activists aren’t backing off demands to work at a new Washington state grain terminal after hundreds of Longshore workers stormed the facility, overwhelmed guards and dumped grain. (more)

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. (more)

New polling shows reliably blue Pennsylvania, a state that hasn’t voted for a Republican for president since 1988, could be up for grabs in 2012. And in a wisdom-bending development, organized labor could help the state trend red. (more)

Some have called Teamsters President James Hoffa’s Monday remarks ill-advised, but he isn’t backing away and, instead, is claiming to have gotten a positive response from his members. (more)

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka refused to denounce the vitriolic rhetoric that his fellow union leader, Teamsters President James Hoffa, espoused in a speech on Monday. (more)

After Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. called for a “war” against Republicans and tea partiers on Monday, one tea party group is calling for the union leader to resign. (more)

Presidential candidate Herman Cain struck back Monday against abrasive comments made by Teamsters union President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. attacking the tea party and congressional Republicans at a Labor Day event in which President Obama later delivered a speech. (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)

Labor Day has become a time for eulogies to the union movement. The recent, short-lived strike at Verizon illustrates why: In the modern economy, unions provide few benefits to workers. (more)

American Federation of Labor founder Samuel Gompers’s famous adage that “No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion” is as relevant as ever this Labor Day. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Obama administration, organized labor had grand visions of pushing through a sweeping agenda that would help boost sagging membership and help revive union strength. (more)

As America approaches the back-to-school sales and end-of-summer cook-outs of Labor Day 2011, Verizon and representatives of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) are negotiating a new contract following a 16-day strike that ended on August 23. (more)

House Education and Workforce committee chairman Rep. John Kline demanded Tuesday that President Barack Obama stop the National Labor Relations Board from moving forward with a pro-union agenda. (more)

The AFL-CIO is distancing itself from the Democratic Party, redirecting its funds to build its own permanent political organization, and pressuring President Barack Obama to embrace a big-spending program for job creation, Richard Trumka, the union’s president, said today. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of striking Verizon workers will return to work starting Monday night, though their contract dispute with the telecom company isn’t over yet. (more)

On Friday a liberal political action committee whose top funders include three labor unions, the financier husband of a Democratic Maine congresswoman, and billionaire George Soros, announced the “second wave” of an ad blitz targeting House Republicans whose seats it considers “some of the most vulnerable” in 2012. (more)