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December 20, 2015

Union-influenced minimum wage law in Wisconsin could squash thousands of jobs

Sally Sprenger and her nearly 1,200 employees at Supportive Homecare Options Inc. could be out of work soon if a costly, Big Labor-boosting living wage proposal passes in Milwaukee County.

December 20, 2015

AFSCME reports using thousands in taxpayer money to organize unions

Opponents of an effort to unionize family child-care providers have long suspected — but could never prove — that some taxpayer money designated for training was instead used for union organizing.

December 20, 2015

Union-backed PI’s accused of tracking, falsely reporting DUI on Calif. lawmakers

Three California lawmakers trying to cut local police pensions and other spending became the victims of a rogue opposition-research campaign in which union-backed investigators allegedly filed a bogus DUI report on one and illegally tracked all of them, according to a recently filed arrest warrant.

December 20, 2015

Republicans prepare for battle with unions in 2015, after midterm gains

Republicans in statehouses across the country are plotting a tough new campaign to check the power of labor unions and chip away at their political influence.

December 20, 2015

Unions launch recruiting push for immigrants protected by Obama actions

America's struggling labor unions got a gift this year when President Obama announced his expansive executive actions on immigration: potentially thousands, if not millions, of new members.

December 20, 2015

New NLRB rules give unions access to workers’ email addresses and phone numbers

Labor unions got an early Christmas present from the National Labor Relations Board: access to non-union workers' email addresses and phone numbers.

December 20, 2015

Longshoremen's union accused of sabotaging west coast ports

Business groups are accusing the longshoremen’s union of causing a log jam at two Washington state ports over a contract dispute.

December 20, 2015

Teachers union boss loses 40,000 members, gets a raise

National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel received a huge pay raise this year while the teachers union lost more than 40,000 members.

December 20, 2015

Labor union work by federal employees on ‘official time’ costs taxpayers millions

Unionized federal employees spent 2.48 million hours working for their labor unions while getting paid by taxpayers during 2013, and more than 360 workers who are on the federal payroll spent 100 percent of their time working for their union.

December 20, 2015

Union leaders under fire for unregistered lobbying

Wendell Young IV spent plenty of time last year trying to convince lawmakers that privatizing Pennsylvania’s liquor stores wasn’t the correct move, yet the president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 wasn’t registered as a lobbyist with the Department of State.