Labor unions the big loser in mayor’s race
By Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
Labor gambled and lost.
Wendy Greuel drove away much of her own base.
Tag Archives: union campaign spending
Minnesota to Allow Home Day-Care Workers to Unionize
By Mark Peters and Kris Maher, The Wall Street Journal
Minnesota is set to allow unions to organize workers who provide home day-care services and other home care, giving organized labor a rare victory at the state level.
Forced union dues violate free speech
By Michael Carvin, James Burnham and Terence Pell, greenbaypressgazette.com
Just as the government cannot stop you from supporting a political candidate, it cannot make you pay to support a candidate. The First Amendment protects both the right to support political causes and the right to not support them.
Meet the Partisan Union Behind The Partisan Internal Revenue Service
By LaborUnionReport, RedState.com
At a protest in downtown Manhattan last week, a group of federal workers chanted: “Hey, hey, ho, ho, sequestration has got to go!”
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.
The Union Label
By Lachlan Markay, The Washington Free Beacon Unions are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars
Unions’ case of de Blahs
By Sally Goldenberg, New York Post Bill de Blasio, the presumed labor candidate in the
The need for national labor reform is real
By Rick Berman, The Daily Caller If undue influence in politics piques your interest, then
Ken Cuccinelli targets Terry McAuliffe’s union support
By Steve Contorno, The Washington Examiner Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli plans to tie Democrat Terry