By James Sherk, The Washington Times
Desperate times call for desperate measures, but the union movement has taken this saying to a new level. It has reacted to dwindling membership by unionizing recipients of public assistance. In more than a dozen states, unions now extract dues from government benefit checks.
By James T. Madore, Newsday
Police on Thursday ordered seven representatives of a union involved in a labor dispute with Cablevision Systems Corp. to leave the annual shareholders’ meeting in Bethpage.
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, John Chase and Bob Secter, Chicago Tribune
Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings.
By Michelle Relerford, NBC Chicago
A group of McDonald’s workers say they serve food every day, but are struggling to feed their own families.
By LaborUnionReport, RedState.com
Now that Barack Obama’s union appointees at National Labor Relations Board have been found to be unconstitutionally appointed by two Circuit Courts of Appeal, union bosses are apoplectic at the possibility that the NLRB will be effectively shut down in August when union attorney Mark Pearce’s term as Chairman of the NLRB expires.
ChildcareFreedom.org
Quietly and in private, Governor Dayton today signed SF778, the bill designed to unionize home-based childcare providers and transfer up to $8 million a year to AFSCME, a government employee union. That new revenue stream the unions are banking on comes at the expense of low-income families receiving government assistance to help pay for childcare.
By Mike Paranzino, The Hill
It’s a stunning admission: the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny in the run-up to the 2012 election. But equally stunning is who the IRS wasn’t targeting: a federally funded labor union front group that was boasting publicly of its lobbying activities while failing to report them to the IRS’s bookkeepers.
By Peter Morici, MoneyNews.com
In the IRS targeting scandal and others, Washington and the media are obsessed with the question: What did the president know and when did he know it? That misses the point — Mr. Obama’s presidency is much more damaging to the nation than the mistakes of subordinates now coming to light.
Southern Maryland News Net
A vote is scheduled in the House this week on Rep. Lee Terry’s (R-NE) bill (H.R. 3), which clears the roadblocks delaying Keystone XL — and more and more labor unions are coming out in full support of it.
By Steve Tawa, CBS Philly
Mayor Michael Nutter today begins a two-day summit with more than 30 mayors from across the country, as he winds down his one-year stint as the President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.