AFSCME organizers targeting day cares for harassment
Sauk Center Herald
State Senator Sandy Pappas (DFL, District 65) may need to rethink her definition of “Minnesota Nice” after this week.
Tag Archives: Big Labor
DFL overreaches on day care unionization
By Editorial Board, Star Tribune
Don’t buy the malarkey coming from DFL legislators poised to deliver one of the most sought-after items on Big Labor’s wish list: unionizing Minnesota child care providers.
AT&T Park concession workers authorize strike with near unanimous vote
By Mark Townsend, Yahoo! Sports
In a big labor battle that has been developing out in San Francisco, concession workers at AT&T Park voted nearly unanimously — 97 percent — on Saturday to give their union the authority to call for a strike.
Throwing Open the Doors to Unions
By Bill McMorris, The Washington Beacon
The Department of Labor’s workplace safety watchdog has quietly crafted a legal interpretation of a longstanding rule that will allow labors representatives into non-union shops.
How Low Can Part-Timers’ Hours Go?
By Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect
Say you’re an employer with an employee who works 30 hours a week. If you have 50 employees or more come next year, you’ll be required either to provide her with health-care coverage, which the Affordable Care Act will by then mandate for all employees who work at least 30 hours a week, or you’ll have to pay a $2,000 penalty for failing to cover her.
The DISCLOSE Act Would Turn Transparency into a Political Weapon
By John Fund, National Review Online
There is a fine line between requiring transparency in politics and creating opportunities for politically minded people and groups to be intimidated into silence. A new effort by two senators, Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, is in danger of crossing that line — to the detriment of political free-speech rights.
Labor: Handling requests for information in collective bargaining
By Ruthie Goodboe, Inside Counsel
The “request for information” has always been a powerful tool in collective bargaining, whether as leverage in contract negotiations, related to the processing of grievances or during everyday interactions between unions and employers.
Unions try to link Walmart organizing effort to ’60s civil rights crusades
By Sean Higgins, The Washington Examiner
The Nation’s Josh Eidelson reports on the latest effort by organized labor to crack the so-far-impervious-to-unionization stance of Walmart:
Union-backed shareholder activism fails to increase value — report
By Barry B. Burr, Pension & Investments
Labor union-backed shareholder activism has failed to increase shareholder value, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Obama Panders To Big Labor On Workers Memorial Day
Investor’s Business Daily
Demagoguery: President Obama blew another dog whistle to Big Labor this week with his proclamation of “Workers Memorial Day” a renewed effort to demonize business and replace it with bigger government.