Labor Unions

I don't know how many of you have been following the unionization effort at the Smithfield Foods hog processing plant down in Tar Heel, NC, but it's providing a great example of ... Keep Reading

Remember the announcment from a couple of days ago by Eddie Davis (the teachers union's head grammarian) that he would run for Superintendent of Public Instruction? Over at The ... Keep Reading

So says the headline of this Business Week article, and basically, if you read what has been revealed about the contract, that is basically the case. GM gets:Offloading of health ... Keep Reading

MSNBC has a list of Democratic Presidential nominees' reaction to the UAW strike, and it typical left-wing pandering, they all side with the plight of the unions. So, in the ... Keep Reading

Eddie Davis, the head of the teacher's union in NC, the NC Association of Educators, announced today that he is running for Superintendent of Public Instruction. "I strong ... Keep Reading

With the SEANC/SEIU marriage being made official, and the $60 million in handouts to two union-run manufacturing plants this week, we should stop and think about the road down ... Keep Reading

The link between SEANC and labor unions, more specifically the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been quite known for a while now.  (For more, see my piece on ... Keep Reading

Hats off to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) for being the first labor union (that I know of) to itemize and make publicly available the amount it spends on political ... Keep Reading

"Fighting the last war" is how Rob Schofield begins his latest attack on us free-marketeers in his latest diatribe on how public service unions will be good for North ... Keep Reading

Last year, numerous Raleigh sanitation workers stopped working for a couple of days to protest what they considered unfair working conditions and low wages. Now, one year later, ... Keep Reading