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.
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Three Harford County emergency responders have filed charges against a local union for violating their rights and illegally demanding that they join the union.
By Georgia Pabst, Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued seven “serious” violations and one “other-than-serious” violation against Palermo Villa Inc., a Milwaukee frozen pizza firm.
By Victor Skinner, EAGnews.org
The Chicago Teachers Union is at it again.
By Thomas Lifson, American Thinker
Jeffrey Lord of the American Spectator has done us a great favor by investigating the left wing union that represents IRS and other Treasury employees – 150,000 of them in 31 separate government agencies including the IRS. The union has signed on to the left wing agenda, and has funneled 94% of its political contributions in 2012 to Democrats.
By Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times
Penny Pritzker, President Barack Obama’s Commerce secretary nominee, has long been a target of organized labor — with the drive against her led by the Chicago Teachers Union and Unite Here Local 1, representing the city’s hotel workers.
By Dave Duffy, backwoodshome.com
This is a story that comes out of my own home town of Gold Beach, Oregon. It pits the high school band, consisting of 15 teenagers ranging in age from 15 to 18, against the powerful local teacher’s union that tried to shut the band down because their unpaid volunteer band director, who everybody agreed was doing a good job, did not possess an Oregon teaching credential.
It may be hard to believe, but at one time The American Federation of Musicians had the effective power to blacklist bands by its ability to delist bands from their list, which could effectively shut out a band from performing because of the union’s agreements with the major performance centers.
The Washington Times
The ding dongs at Big Labor who refused to make concessions when Hostess Brands, the makers of Twinkies, Drake’s Cakes and Wonder Bread, faced imminent bankruptcy, now find themselves frozen out of the newly constituted company.
By Kris Maher, The Wall Street Journal
The Service Employees International Union is locked in battle here with an unusual opponent: another union.