By Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner
After a year on the market, the AFL-CIO has finally sold its National Labor College campus in Silver Spring, Md., another sign that the nation’s once enormous labor movement has fallen on hard times.
By James Warren, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Organized labor will break its silence and oppose President Obama’s nominee for Commerce Secretary, Chicago’s Penny Pritzker, the Daily News has learned.
By Kevin Bogardus, The Hill
Labor unions are breaking with President Obama on ObamaCare.
By LaborUnionReport, RedState.com
With so many scandals in Washington these days, Senate Democrats may be about to add more fuel to conservatives’ fire at the behest of AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka and his fellow union bosses.
By Walter Hamilton, Los Angeles Times
About 300 labor union members and other activists staged a demonstration to protest the potential sale of the Los Angeles Times to the politically conservative Koch brothers.
By David Koenig, The Salt Lake City Tribune
The president of the AFL-CIO is worried that the merger of American Airlines and US Airways will trigger a costly fight between two unions over representation of airline ground workers.
The Wall Street Journal
It’s corporate proxy season, which can only mean more political pressure on companies to stop spending money on politics. This year the plan of Big Labor and the George Soros-funded Center for Political Accountability is pressuring business to disclose all spending related to politics as well as to lobby the Securities and Exchange Commission to force companies to do so.
At a meeting of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce the future of recess appointed NLRB board members was considered. The legitimacy of these board members was called in to question by the DC Circuit court decision in Noel Canning vs. NLRB. The court held that the board members appointments unconstitutional.
“I’m saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you’re likely to get burned. That doesn’t mean I’m threatening to burn you. That just means if you strike the match, and you put your finger in it, common sense will tell you it’ll burn your finger.”
