By Willie Deutsch At a time when even Democrats are expressing shock at the political overreach of the Obama administration, and a new political scandal seems to pop up every day, you would think the Senate Democrats would be careful about what Obama appointees they support.  Instead they are bowing to pressure from labor, pushing through deeply flawed nominees, and [...]

The SEIU has long bragged about being the fastest growing union in the nation.  The truth is actually quite the opposite.  According to a recent ALG study, the SEIU is actually on the decline, and has never reached the numbers it brags about. Service Employees International Union’s 2012 LM-2 Shows Membership Dropped By Nearly 45 Thousand Members- The First Drop [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at The Washington Examiner. By Nathan Mehrens — Around $156 million, that’s how much taxpayers spent in 2011 on federal employees who did no federal work at all. These aren’t people who fail to perform the work assigned to them, but rather employees who are not assigned any federal work at all. Shocked? [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at The Washington Times. By Bill Wilson – A massive embezzlement case in Mexico involving the leader of Latin America’s largest labor union should send shivers up and down the spines of American workers. It should also force the administration of Barack Obama to reexamine its ongoing kowtowing to union bosses — most [...]

By Rick Manning – Richard Griffin, Jr. has had a rough 2012, and 2013 doesn’t look much better. For Griffin, 2012 started brightly as he was given a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board and was sworn in as a Board Member on January 9, 2012. Now, just a little more than a year later, he is fighting for [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at Investor’s Business Daily. By Bill Wilson – Of all the federal agencies engaging in “bold, persistent experimentation” with our economy in recent years, U.S. President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been among the boldest, most persistent and most experimental. The problem? Its policies haven’t helped American workers (just as [...]

SEIU’s dispute with King’s Daughters Medical Center led to a robo-call campaign which disrupted hospital phones. The Sixth Circuit Court has dismissed the case. By Brad Tidwell — When the King’s Daughters Medical Center wanted to shift some of the rising costs of employee healthcare to the employees, the SEIU decided to take action. The SEIU started a robocall campaign [...]

By Rick Manning — What would you say if a group of employees working the Alzheimer’s ward in a health care facility deliberately switched the name tags on patient’s doors making patient identification difficult and removed dietary instructions from the patient’s room, putting patients at risk? Would it matter that these actions were deliberately taken as part of a labor [...]

By Brad Tidwell- ALG’s FOIA request found two NLRB employees making over $100K for working on nothing but internal union issues. Americans for Limited Government (ALG) has discovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that there are two official time full-time employees of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who make over $100,000 each. These are employees whose [...]

By Bill Wilson — A Feb. 14 Wall Street Journal editorial calls on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to veto legislation that would require projects in state costing $5 million or more to utilize project labor agreements (PLAs), pointing to two studies that ought to give the Governor pause. This is an important issue, not only because of the greater [...]