Big Labor must be in full panic mode. They lost their first Rust Belt state to right-to-work laws yesterday in Indiana. And today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports dismal numbers for the rate of unionization. How dismal? How about the rate is near zero. As Mickey Kaus reports at The Daily Caller, “The most significant number in the recent Bureau [...]

UPDATE: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has signed the law, making Indiana the first Rust Belt state with a right-to-work law on the books! This is excellent news! The Indiana Senate has passes right-to-work legislation that could become law today. All it needs is Governor Mitch Daniels’s signature. If this legislation is signed, Indiana will become the first Rust Belt state [...]

Go figure. The one group that organized coast to coast during the Obamacare debate to intimidate Americans to support the bill is also the one group getting out of it. According to a report in the Daily Caller, 543,812 workers who are members of labor unions have received waivers from Obamacare. Compare that to the 69,813 employees who work in [...]

This is an excellent move by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina). Senator Graham is calling for an investigation to determine if the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and labor union collaborated on their attacks against businesses seeking favorable business environments free of Big Labor intimidation. From Senator Graham’s press release: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) is calling for a [...]

By Frank McCaffrey — Photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have captured the decay of Detroit in their piece “The Ruins of Detroit.” With help from Motown Records’ artist Marvin Gaye, here is our look at what unions have done to the Motor City.

By Mark Wohschlegel — Obama is known to be very union friendly. But, how far does this go? Based on a White House Office of Management and Budget FOIA response to Americans for Limited Government, it appears unions were allowed not only to shape federal policy, but also to guide the President’s pen in in the creation of Executive Order [...]

At a George-Soros funded symposium on prison labor, Alan Krueger, Obama’s choice to head up his Council of Economic Advisers, advocated for unions for prisoners: Krueger …. supported the Fair Labor Standards Act and Occupational Safety and Health coverage for inmates, as well as the right to form or belong to unions. (Source: Corrections Today 10/1/99) Krueger also supported paying [...]

By Rebecca DiFede — Call it Big Labor’s favorite movie. Whether through the National Labor Relations Board or OSHA inspectors, the Obama Administration has gone out of its way to coerce employers to get unionized — and to make sure pro-union shops get federal contracts. One clear example of this was Executive Order 13494, enacted by President Obama on January [...]

This is a very important story and the word needs to be spread (H/T LaborUnionReport): With around 25 employees, John King owns one of the largest non-union electrical contracting businesses in the Toledo, Ohio area. As a non-union contractor, his business happens to be doing well at a time when unions in the construction industry are suffering. This, it seems, has [...]

By Frank McCaffrey – The NEA is a powerful teachers union that just announced that it would be backing Obama in the 2012 election, which comes as no surprise. The Democrats and the NEA have gone hand in hand for years. ALG’s Nathan Mehrens says this might not be good for education.