Unions

• California’s powerful teachers’ union condemns Democratic reformers.
    Blue vs. Blue California’s powerful teachers’ union condemns Democratic reformers. Larry Sand, City Journal,   5/16/13 If not for the activism of the California [...]
• Union Teachers Take Prop. 30 $$ From Students—Other Education $$ DECREASED!!
    Santa Barbara District’s $2.7 Million in Prop. 30 Funding Used for Teacher Salaries By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk, 5/13/13 The Santa Barbara Unified [...]
• Fresno County farmer challenges state’s mandatory labor mediation –Union Delayed TWENTY YEARS
    Fresno County farmer challenges state’s mandatory labor mediation By Robert Rodriguez – The Fresno Bee, 5/9/13 A Fresno County farming company is [...]
• Union Bought City Councils: Throwing Out Workers That REFUSE to Pay Bribes
    Election Gains for California Unions in 2012 Drive Push for Project Labor Agreements By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch,  5/7/13    The explosion [...]
• Nurses union threatens 7-day East Bay strike against Sutter hospitals
    Nurses union threatens 7-day East Bay strike against Sutter hospitals San Francisco Business Times, 5/7/13 The California Nurses Association is planning a [...]
• AFSCME workers authorize strike at five UC medical centers
    AFSCME workers authorize strike at five UC medical centers San Francisco Business Times, 5/7/13 AFSCME Local 3299, which represents nearly 13,000 technical [...]
• Why is California in a Depression? Look for the union label.
    Opportunity Re-Knox By Larry Sand, Union Watch,  5/7/13    A recently filed lawsuit in California picks up where Knox v. SEIU left [...]
• Labor, Charter Cities Clash Over Prevailing Wage==Higher Pay for Bribepayers
    Labor, Charter Cities Clash Over Prevailing Wage By John Howard, Capitol Weekly,   5/7/13 Millions of public dollars and thousands of jobs are [...]
• Union Agreements and ObamaCare—Possible Cause for Hospital Cut Backs?
    Sutter Health files under WARN Act for 169 NorCal layoffs Chris Rauber, San Francisco Business Times, 5/1/13 Sutter Health has filed on [...]
• Bribe Payers No Longer Working for “Twinkies”—Workers are Freed From Unions
    New Twinkies Will Have a Missing Ingredient: Union Labor by Bruce Vail‚ Beyond Chron,  5/1/13 The new owners of Twinkies snack cakes [...]
• Teachers Sue to Stop Being Forced to Pay Bribes to Unions to Work
    California teachers sue NEA over forced $1,000 union dues Paul Bedard, Washington Exainer,  4/30/13 Ten California schoolteachers on Tuesday sued the National [...]
• California Unions Oppose Tax Relief and Job Creation
    Factory equipment sales-tax waiver gets committee nod A bill to exempt manufacturing equipment from California sales tax crept closer to becoming [...]
• People Count—They Can Stop Extortionist Unions
    Persistent Pressure Compels San Diego to Spit Out Project Labor Agreement By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch,  4/23/13 For five months, the City [...]
• San Diego Group SUES to See Sweetheart Deal Between Union and City
        Group plans to sue city to make terms of labor deal on convention center expansion public        San Diego News Room, 4/18/13 A [...]
• Unions Demand Killing of Enterprise Zones: Minimum Wage in Zone $16 an Hour
    Labor groups want to reform California’s enterprise zones Labor groups took aim at one of their top legislative goals Tuesday, holding [...]
• It’s Likely That ‘a Lot’ of Wisconsin Workers ‘Didn’t Want to Belong to a Union in the First Place’
    It’s Likely That ‘a Lot’ of Wisconsin Workers ‘Didn’t Want to Belong to a Union in the First Place’ By Stan [...]
• Orange County Project Labor Agreements: One Advances, One Gets Jammed
    Orange County Project Labor Agreements: One Advances, One Gets Jammed By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch,  4/9/13 Within three days last week, elected [...]
• Community Groups Sue City Over Chinatown Walmart Permits
    Community Groups Sue City Over Chinatown Walmart Permits by Frying Pan Staff‚ 4/5/13 The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), the Los [...]
• Unions Will Control Mid-Sized Cities with California Voting Rights Act
  Unions to own small cities—just like they own LA, San Fran, Stockton, San Bernardino, Vallejo and Fresno.  All those cities [...]
• Unions Put Line in Sand for California Education
    The Good, the Ugly and the Uglier By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 4/2/13 After a loss in Indiana, the teachers unions’ war [...]
• WORST BILL OF THE WEEK: Democrats FORCE Independent Contractors to Pay Bribes to Unions—AB 1263
    MediCal Independent Contractor Translators Must Bribe Unions to Work Assemblyman John Perez,   2/22/13   BILL NUMBER: AB 1263   INTRODUCED         BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY   Assembly [...]
• Will Silicon Valley’s elite take on public sector unions?
    Will Silicon Valley’s elite take on public sector unions? By Ed Ring, Calwatchdog,  3/27/13 The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the [...]
• Greuel or Garcetti for LA Mayor? Does Not Matter—Unions Will Continue ownership of City Hall
    MUST READ: Will Campaign-Funding Union Bo$$ d’Arcy Own City Hall? Written by Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA,   3/19/13 LA WATCHDOG - Why did [...]
• New San Leandro Police Contract: Pay For Pensions In Return For Raises
    New San Leandro Police Contract: Pay For Pensions In Return For Raises City estimates total cost of deal at $50,000 over [...]
• AFL-CIO uses $$ Stolen From Workers to Promote Higher Taxes and Hate of Jews
    Look for the Union Label … at the World Social Forum AFL-CIO to attend anti-Israel, anti-capitalism forum BY: Lachlan Markay, Washington Free [...]
• WORSE BILL OF THE DAY: Democrat Wants UNIONS to Approve Personal Service Contract With State—NOT the State.
          LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST Assemblyman Richard Pan, 2/22/13   AB 906, as introduced, Pan. Personal services contracts: independent contractors. The State Civil Service Act authorizes [...]
• Unions Use CEQA to Kill Jobs for Union Members and Create Higher Cost Energy for All
    Opponents of CEQA Reform Cite New Study with Union Connections By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch,  3/12/13  A broad coalition opposing any changes [...]
• Union Intimidation Tactics Stopped by Honest Business Owner
    One Man’s Fight Against Union Power By Ed Ring, Union Watch,  3/11/13  Entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley should pay close attention to [...]
• UC Berkeley Students Protest—Want More $$ for Campus Workers and Higher Tuition
    Mock funeral at UC Berkeley to support campus workers by Tracey Taylor, Berkelyside,   3/9/13 Yesterday, a group of UC Berkeley students and [...]
• Union Boss: Losing WI Forced-Dues Privileges ‘Makes Huge Difference’
    Union Boss: Losing WI Forced-Dues Privileges ‘Makes Huge Difference’ By Stan Greer, National right to Work,   3/4/13 State-by-state public employment data for [...]
• WORST BILL OF THE WEEK: AB 729–Democrats Intro Bill to Declare Union Officials the Same as Doctors, Lawyers and PRIESTS
    California bill would extend confidentiality privilege to unions  Sacramento Bee,  2/28/13 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE The statute assumes [...]
• Racist LAUSD Teachers Union protect Racism in Classroom and by Teachers
    UTLA ♥ Marxists By Larry Sand, Union Watch,  2/26/13 Los Angeles teachers union continues its tradition of  accommodating  and supporting political extremists.  As [...]
• SEIU Does Not Disrupt “Oscar” Party—Instead will Try to Close Down Motion Picture Hospital
    Union Didn’t Disrupt ‘Night Before’ Party By THE DEADLINE TEAM,  2/24/13 Deadline contributor Ross Johnson reports that Beverly Hills Hotel security kept [...]
• After Bankrupting Hostess, Union Workers Rake In The Federal Dough
    After Bankrupting Hostess, Union Workers Rake In The Federal Dough Investors, 2/22/13      Labor: Who says intransigence doesn’t pay? After driving Hostess [...]
• CalPERS to divest from two makers of assault weapons that are illegal in California
    CalPERS to divest from two makers of assault weapons that are illegal in California Central Valley Business Times,  2/21/13 •  Prompted [...]
• Unions Steal 20% of School Bond Money—and Union Owned School Board Applaud
    Another Year Brings New Project Labor Agreements for Education Construction By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch,   2/19/13 Another year brings another rush of costly [...]
• Obama’s Minimum Wage Increase Also Increases Union Contracts! Some by 15%!!
    Political Payback: Facts Behind Organized Labor’s Push to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage Center for Union Facts, President Obama’s call to raise [...]
• San Bernardino Police, Firefighters Threaten to Sue City Over Benefits
    San Bernardino Police, Firefighters Threaten to Sue City Over Benefits California City News,   2/14/13 Police and firefighter unions in the City of [...]
• Official Time: Taxpayers paying for union work is officially a scam
    Official Time: Taxpayers paying for union work is officially a scam By CRC Staff, 2/4/12 Official Time Taxpayers paying for union work is [...]
• Mayors Race: SEIU Continued Ownership of Los Angeles Guaranteed
    How Much Will the SEIU Endorsement Cost Us? by Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA,   2/12/13 LA WATCHDOG - Wannabe mayors Wendy Greuel and [...]
• Would ANY Public Sector Union Reform Appeal to California’s Union Owned Democrats?
    Would ANY Public Sector Union Reform Appeal to California’s Democrats? By Editor, Union Watch,  2/12/13 “There’s a difference between being liberal and [...]
• San Jose fires cops—UNION still wants 16% pay increase.
    San Jose cops seek 16 percent raises over next three years By John Woolfolk, San Jose Mercury News,  2/6/13 TO SEE COMPLETE [...]
• Teachers Union in Los Angeles Keep Kids From Quality Schools
    Carpenter Hammers Out Plan to Combat Enrollment Fraud Enrollment jumps to more than 1,000 and there just isn’t enough space—and potentially [...]
• UC staffers demand a better labor contract
    UC staffers demand a better labor contract Labor protests under way at all 10 campuses KCRA,  1/31/13 University of California staff members protested [...]
• Gun Free Zone of Gov’t Schools: Easy Target for Nuts
    Bill to Arm School Volunteers to be Introduced in CA Conservative lawmaker Tim Donnelly says the state should pay to train [...]
• Good News for Citizens of Sonoma County AND the Unions—February SEIU Strike Against People of Sonoma
    County employees make plans for February strike By BRETT WILKISON,  THE PRESS DEMOCRAT, 1/27/13 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON THE BLUE [...]
• Labor’s Predictable Decline
    Labor’s Predictable Decline by Randy Shaw‚ Beyond Chron,   1/28/13 Last week’s announcement that the percentage of unionized workers in the United [...]
• Union Solidarity NOT Food Quality Object of Union “Restaurant” Guidebook
    Los Angeles “Diners’ Guide” is Labor Front Group’s Latest Ploy By Alison Harden, Union Watch,   1/25/13 This month, a front group for organized [...]
• Teachers Union to SUE Teachers for Bribe Payments
    Pay Up or Get Sued Michigan teachers union prepares to sue its own members for dues money BY: Bill McMorris, Washington Free [...]
• Unions Await Fantastic Return on High-Speed Rail Political Investments
    Unions Await Fantastic Return on High-Speed Rail Political Investments By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch,   1/22/13 It’s a heady time to be a [...]
• Teachers Unions Demand Right to Hold Children Hostage to Government Schools
    School Choice for Kids? Ravitch and NEA Say No By Larry Sand, Union Watch,  1/22/13 Widely discredited ex-reformer and teachers union try [...]
• Construction Industry Union Membership Dips Near Historic Low
    Construction Industry Union Membership Dips Near Historic Low Truth About PLA’s, 1/23/13 A report released today by the U.S. Department of Labor’s [...]
• San Fran Union: Workers Not Paying Bribes is “Bad Karma” at Local Hotel
    Bad Karma at Hyatt Regency San Francisco by Carl Finamore‚ Beyond Chron,  1/21/13 Each year some 2000 yoga enthusiasts assemble at the [...]
• Will Chris Christie Tell Non Union Workers in New Jersey “Pay a bribe or be Unemployed?”
    N.J. Senate passes bill regarding hiring contractors in wake of Hurricane Sandy By Matt Friedman/The Star-Ledger, 1/14/13   TRENTON — Taking up [...]
• Los Angeles Teachers Union “Allows” worthless evaluation—Tenure Continues
    United Teachers Los Angeles approves teacher evaluation deal By John Fensterwald, EdSource,   1/19/13 United Teachers Los Angeles announced Saturday that teachers had ratified [...]
• Stadium Security Deals Held Up Over Living Wage
    Stadium Security Deals Held Up Over Living Wage   San Diego News Room,   1/16/13   SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Another extension of an interim [...]
• Watch Union Official’s Rude Antics at California High-Speed Rail Conference–Goonish Behavior
    Watch Union Official’s Rude Antics at California High-Speed Rail Conference By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch,   1/15/13 See You tube   here:    And here:   On January [...]
• Grimes: Dirty Secret Exposed: Prevailing Wage Scams Steal from Taxpayers (Videos)
    Dirty Secret Exposed: Prevailing Wage Scams Steal from Taxpayers (Videos) by Katy Grimes, City Watch LA/Calwatchdog,   1/14/13 CALWATCHDOG – In what strange [...]
• National Labor RICO Board Lawsuit: accuses Obama appointee of embezzlement cover-up
    National Labor RICO Board Lawsuit accuses Obama appointee of embezzlement cover-up BY: Lachlan Markay, Washington Free Beacon,   1/8/13 A recent lawsuit filed in [...]
• California: Glendale City Council to Consider a Proposed Ordinance to Ban Gun Shows
    California: Glendale City Council to Consider a Proposed Ordinance to Ban Gun Shows NRA, 1/8/13 In 2006, then-Mayor Rafi Manoukian unsuccessfully tried [...]
• Will Congress Make Union Extortion Illegal?
    Listen All Y’all It’s a Sabotage Lawmakers push for new laws to punish union sabotage BY: Bill McMorris, Washington Free Beacon,   1/8/13 Lawmakers [...]
• Unions Join to Fight SEIU and Kaiser-Permanente—Patients Not Considered
    Unions join forces to fight nursing cutbacks Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 1/4/13 Two feisty labor unions are joining forces to [...]
• California Schools to “Celebrate” Extortion and Blackmail by Unions
    How Will Students Celebrate Labor History Month in California Schools? By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch,  12/31/12 Do you have children or grandchildren [...]
• Union Demand THEY Own Fresno Trash—Not a Private Firm
      Fresno trash outsourcing opponents act Union officials circulating petitions against City Council decision. By Barbara Anderson – The Fresno Bee, 12/29/12 TO SEE [...]
• Dockworkers Union Threatens More Strikes in Midst of National Recession
    Dockworkers at Northwest ports reject pact offer By Laura L. Myers, Reuters,   12/24/12 SEATTLE (Reuters) – Dockworkers at four U.S. Pacific Northwest [...]
• Unions Get TAXPAYERS to Pay for Their Leaders—Then Donate to Obama
    Why Are Taxpayers Paying Union Officials’ So Much? Investors,  12/19/12 Politics: Taxpayers are forking out $4.8 million for 35 union officials [...]
• Union launches $500,000 anti-Rahm Emanuel blitz–Using $$ Stolen From Workers
    Union launches $500,000 anti-Rahm blitz Chicago Business,  12/20/12 Another big labor union is going nuclear on Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The state council of [...]
• Unions use “Environmentalism” to Extort and Blackmail Businesses and Government
    “Unite Here” Union Becomes San Diego’s Leading Environmental Organization By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch,  12/18/12    According to its national web site, [...]
• Union Nurses in Bay Area to Strike on December 24
  Nurses plan Christmas Eve strike Central Valley Business Times,  12/17/12 •  Target many Sutter hospitals •  Would be a one-day walkout Don’t [...]
• Unions Kill Long Beach Hotel Jobs by Creating Artificial Minimum Wage
    Long Beach hotels plan layoffs before living wage takes effect Los Angeles Times,  12/14/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE One [...]
• Big Labor’s Top Ten Special Privileges
    Big Labor’s Top Ten Special Privileges Published on National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, 12/13/12 Labor union officials enjoy many extraordinary [...]
• Union Leaders Criticize OC Retirement System’s Decision to Lower Investment Returns Rate
    Union Leaders Criticize OC Retirement System’s Decision to Lower Investment Returns Rate California County News,    12/12/12 The recent decision of the Orange [...]
• Union LA Port Strike: Raise Pay from $165,000 to $195,000—NOT a Typo
    LA Port Strike Drags Into Day 7, Costs Economy $1B Per Day   by Breitbart News, 12/3/12 California’s economy-crippling union strike against the [...]
• The Lies The SEIU Tells Its Members
    The Lies The SEIU Tells Its Members -By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum,   12/2/12 This week the SEIU sent out an email [...]
• The inevitable litigation over PLAs and state funds
    The inevitable litigation over PLAs and state funds     Written by David King    Sandiegonewsroom,   12/1/12   When we enter 2013, we return to [...]
• State Teachers’ Union Money Fueled FV, HB Schools Campaigns
    State Teachers’ Union Money Fueled FV, HB Schools Campaigns In a 20-day period in October, the California Teachers Association donated nearly [...]
• Clerk Strike Widens at Port of L.A.
    Clerk Strike Widens at Port of L.A. By James Rufus Koren, LA Business Journal,  11/28/12 Striking port clerks on Wednesday shut down [...]
• What Do Unions Not Want Walmart Employees to Know?
    What Do Unions Not Want Walmart Employees to Know? By Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Real Clear Markets,   11/27/12 WASHINGTON – What does the United [...]
• Unions have a new enemy: Their own members
    Unions have a new enemy: Their own members By Meribah Knight, Crain,  11/26/12 Multinational corporations have a new ally in their battles [...]
• Knox v. SEIU: A new hope for restraining Big Labor’s forced dues power
    Knox v. SEIU: A new hope for restraining Big Labor’s forced dues power By Patrick Semmons and Will Collins, Union Watch,   [...]
• One California state worker on a mission to see union books
    One California state worker on a mission to see union books By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee,   11/26/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK [...]
• CHA leader: Unions, organizations need to work together
    CHA leader: Unions, organizations need to work together Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 11/25/12 Duane Dauner, president and CEO of the [...]
• Walmart Protest Spills into Streets of Paramount–protestors NOT Wal Mart Workers
    Walmart Protest Spills into Streets of Paramount Workers were protesting poor working conditions at Walmart in Paramount By Jason Kandel and Toni [...]
• Unions Try to Close Down Los Angeles International Airport as “Thanksgiving Gift” to Public”
    Arrests made in LAX protest* By Mark Lacter LA Observed,   11/21/12 About 12 so far, according to KNX, but apparently the brief [...]
• Corrupt Union Official Tries to Create Fake petition Signatures—Disciplined, Not Arrested
    City union worker urged fake signatures to thwart pension overhaul initiative By Rick Orlov, Daily News,   11/20/12   TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK [...]
• Michigan UAW Member Demands Right to Work Law
    Michigan UAW Member Demands Right to Work Law By NRTW Committee Staff,  11/21/12 Terry Bowman, taking to the pages of the MichiganLive.com in response [...]
• Union Nurses Tell Patients: “You do not count, we are on strike”
    Nurses at Alta Bates, other Bay Area hospitals, on strike by Tracey Taylor, Berkeleyside,   11/20/12 Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Hospital on [...]
• Will Orange County Supervisors End Union Monopoly on Airport Firefighters?
    Supervisors to Again Discuss Privatizing Airport Firefighting Voiceofoc.org,  11/20/12 As county leaders begin the process of deciding whether to privatize aircraft rescue [...]
• Oakland airport can withstand strike but port might feel effects, say officials
    Oakland airport can withstand strike but port might feel effects, say officials San Francisco Business Times by Eric Young, 11/19/12 Oakland’s airport [...]
• Union Kills 18,500 Jobs nationally in ONE COMPANY—1800 in California
    Hostess Brands says it’s closing down because of strike Dallas Business Journal by Lance Murray, 11/16/12 Hostess blamed a strike by bakers [...]
• Unions deemed exempt from Identity Theft laws
    Unions deemed exempt from Identity Theft laws By Amelia Hamilton, Freedom Works,  10/29/12 As one of 22 Right to Work states in America, North Carolina [...]
• Disarming Public Sector Unions One City At A Time
    Disarming Public Sector Unions One City At A Time By Editor,  11/13/12 “You talk like a man because of that flashy hardware [...]
• Southern California Warehouse Workers Announce Second Strike
  Southern California Warehouse Workers Announce Second Strike Workers call for an end to chilling retaliation at warehouse that moves Walmart goods Common [...]
• Advancing the Union Agenda: A More Mundane Silicon Valley Ambition
  Advancing the Union Agenda: A More Mundane Silicon Valley Ambition By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch,  11/12/12 As reported over the past few [...]
• No One Sure WHO is Paying for Union Boss Retirement Pay Annuity—City or Union
    More about the mysterious annuity for the police union boss posted by Andrew Galvin, OC Register, 11/12/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK [...]
• Sacramento Area “Twinkies” Plant on Strike—Union Protesting 23% cut—More Obama Carnage
    Picket lines go up outside Twinkies plant By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee,   11/11/12   TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “A [...]
• Raley’s, union put spin on success of strike–what price to consumer’s?
  Raley’s, union put spin on success of strike Sacramento Business Journal by Kelly Johnson, 11/7/12 United Food and Commercial Workers 8-Golden State [...]
• Sand: Taking the “You” out of Union
    Taking the “You” out of Union By Larry Sand, Union Watch,   11/6/12    Union political power is only as strong as its [...]
• Gov. Brown campaigns for rich public-employee unions
    Gov. Brown campaigns for rich public-employee unions By Mark Cabaniss, Calwatchdog,  10/30/12 If you have the stomach, listen to Jesuit seminary dropout [...]
• Are We Asking Too Much of Public Employee Unions?
    Are We Asking Too Much of Public Employee Unions? By Joe Mathews, Prop. Zero,  11/4/12 Union public employees from around the nation [...]
• Statewide Unions Spend Big to Defeat Local Charter Measure in Costa Mesa
    Statewide Unions Spend Big to Defeat Local Charter Measure in Costa Mesa California City News,  11/1/12 Discussion of a charter proposal in [...]
• Kaiser Permanente lays off 84 (all non-union) in Southern California; union officials say more to come
  Kaiser Permanente lays off 84 in Southern California; union officials say more to come Company lays off 12 employees in Ontario [...]
• Gov. Brown campaigns for rich public-employee unions
    Gov. Brown campaigns for rich public-employee unions By Mark Cabaniss, Calwatchdog,   10/31/12 If you have the stomach, listen to Jesuit seminary dropout [...]
• Union members prepare for possible Raley’s strike–Union Does Not Allow Members to Vote on Contract
  Union members prepare for possible Raley’s strike Sacramento Business Journal by Kelly Johnson, 10/29/12 Union members Elissa Hammond and Ronda Zanelli with [...]
• Are We Asking Too Much of Public Employee Unions? Are They TAKING Too Much From Workers and Taxpayers?
    Are We Asking Too Much of Public Employee Unions? By Joe Mathews, nbclosangeles,   10/28/12 Union public employees from around the nation gather [...]
• Police Union Intimidates California City Council
    Police Union Intimidates California City Council by Reason Magazine,  10/26/12 Many people were outraged this summer after a private investigator, with ties [...]
• Unions Fighting for More $$ and Benefits From California Local Government—What $$?
    Battle Over County Labor Contracts Is Heating Up NORBERTO SANTANA JR., vocieofoc.org,  10/22/12 After watching the Orange County Board of Supervisors grant [...]
• Deceptive campaign websites point to CUEA (UNION) front-group leader.
    Deceptive campaign websites point to CUEA front-group leader. By Larry Sand, Union Watch,  10/23/12 The Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) in California’s [...]
• Brown Upset With $$ From PAC Against Prop. 30—no problem taking $$ without permission from workers paychecks
    Jerry Brown accuses anti-tax group of illegal money laundering Sacramento Bee, 10/20/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE SAN FRANCISCO [...]
• Unions Slush Fund Exposed—Try to Hide $$
    Mysterious Union Slush Fund Spends $100,000 Against Costa Mesa Charter By Kevin Dayton, Unions Watch,  10/18/12   As explained by the League [...]
• Reason-Rupe Poll: California Voters Moving Towards Wisconsin-Like Government Reforms
    Reason-Rupe Poll: California Voters Moving Towards Wisconsin-Like Government Reforms Emily Ekin, Reason, 10/19/12 California’s Proposition 30 and Proposition 32 are too close [...]
• The Union Racket
    The Union Racket BY: Bill McMorris, Washington Free Beacon,  10/18/12 The union that launched the career of Democratic National Committee executive director [...]
• Congratulations to the Bakersfield City Council. Under pressure and threats, they refused to payoff the unions.
    Council shakes off prevailing wage requirement BY ANTONIE BOESSENKOOL,  Bakersfield Californian,  10/18/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “Prevailing wages are [...]
• Union Opposes Orange County Saving Tax $$–Might Lose 19 Bribe Payers
    Supervisors Delay Approval of Computer Contract NORBERTO SANTANA JR., voiceofoc.org, 10/16/12 The Orange County Board of Supervisors delayed approval Tuesday of a [...]
• Unions Still Winning Control of California’s Community College Construction
  Unions Still Winning Control of California’s Community College Construction By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 10/15/12 On October 10, 2012, leaders of the [...]
• When Public Sector Unions Win in California
    THE NAYS HAVE IT: When Public Sector Unions Win in California Daniel DiSalvo, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 10/15/12 Executive Summary                           This [...]
• Greenhut: Another Union Giveaway Almost Becomes Law
    Another Union Giveaway Almost Becomes Law By Steven Greenhut, Union Watch,   10/12/12   If California voters grant the state government the billions [...]
• Greenhut: The Latest Scam from California’s Public-Sector Unions
    The Latest Scam from California’s Public-Sector Unions Steven Greenhut, Reason,  10/5/12 If California voters grant the state government the massive income-tax and sales-tax [...]
• In Chicago, and Now CA the Dems Favor Teachers’ Unions Over Students
    In Chicago, and Now CA the Dems Favor Teachers’ Unions Over Students by Bill Korach www.thereportcard.org, 10/5/12 In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel [...]
• Is Union Prez $850 Million Savings Claim Just Another LA Urban Myth?
    Is Union Prez $850 Million Savings Claim Just Another LA Urban Myth? Jack Humphreville. City Watch LA,  10/4/12 LA WATCHDOG – The [...]
• Vetoing Union Rights for 14,000 Research Assistants–Jerry Brown Protects Students From Unions!
    Vetoing Union Rights for 14,000 Research Assistants, Gov. Sides with Wall Street Management of UC by Charlie Eaton‚ Beyond Chron,  [...]
• Sand: Combating Union Misinformation
    Combating Union Misinformation By Larry Sand, Union Watch,  10/2/12   Getting the facts to people who have been lied to for decades [...]
• Paycheck Protection Redux Unions line up against an initiative that would end payroll deductions for politics.
    Paycheck Protection Redux Unions line up against an initiative that would end payroll deductions for politics. Larry Sand, City Journal,  9/28/12 For the [...]
• LA City Council: News Stadium Can ONLY USE Union Workers—Qualified Workers Who Do Not Pay Bribes to Work Unwelcomed
    L.A. City Council Approves Farmers Field Project Agreements By Howard Fine, LA Business Journal,  9/28/12 The Los Angeles City Council on Friday [...]
• Prop. 32 free’s the slaves—will you be an abolitionist?
    Will California Become a Right-to-Give State? By Michael M. Rosen, American.com,  9/27/12 How the Golden State may unshackle workers from their union overlords. “To [...]
• Union Jobs vs. Children’s Lives: Which side are you on?
  
• Union Hooey on Display
    Union Hooey on Display By Larry Sand, Union Watch,  9/25/12    Even with a “victory” in Chicago, teachers unions are still under [...]
• Greenhut: California Voters Still Embrace Unionized Government
    California Voters Still Embrace Unionized Government By Steven Greenhut, Union Watch,  9/26/12 California residents are depressed about the economy and see little [...]
• Grimes: Prop. 32: Striking fear in the hearts of union bosses
    Prop. 32: Striking fear in the hearts of union bosses By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog,  9/24/12 California voters have plenty of reasons to [...]
• California Public Sector Union Revenue Exceeds $1.0 Billion Per Year
    California Public Sector Union Revenue Exceeds $1.0 Billion Per Year By Editor, Union Watch,  9/18/12 In today’s Sacramento Bee an article by [...]
• Democrat Congressman Brad Sherman: Make Twelve Million Illegal Aliens UNION Members
      Rep. Sherman: 12 million illegals ‘need documents’ to be able to unionize By Sean Rainey, Daily Caller,  9/14/12 WASHINGTON — California [...]
• Del Beccarro: Frustrated Californians Turn to Prop 32
      Frustrated Californians Turn to Prop 32 By Thomas Del Beccaro, National Review Online,  9/7/12 California hasn’t been “in play” during a presidential race [...]
• Unions Go After Honest Hispanic-American Grocery Chain Owner for Using E-Verify
      Hispanic market chain chief targeted for checking new employee immigration status By Matt O’Brien, San Jose Mercury News, 9/6/12 TO SEE COMPLETE [...]
• Albertsons Closing 19 UNIONIZED Stores in So Cal—Non Union Stores Proliferating Unions Killing Members Jobs
    Albertsons closing 19 Socal stores By Mark Lacter, LA Observed,  9/5/12 This isn’t a huge surprise – in June the supermarket chain’s [...]
• Unions Go to Court to Keep Unemployed Jobless in Los Angeles
      Wal-Mart Opponents Seek to Stop Construction By Deborah Crowe, LA Business Journal,  9/5/12 Two organized labor opponents of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s planned [...]
• Another Union Agree’s to Back Off Wage and Benefit Increases
      Santa Barbara County Firefighters Agree to Wage, Pension Concessions The county Board of Supervisors will be asked to sign [...]
• Unions Extort the Poorest in California
      Unions target nannies and farm workers http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/08/31/nannies-and-farm-workers-targeted-by-unions/ By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 9/3/12 Farm workers and nannies have a couple of glaring things in [...]
• Now Police Unions have Turned into Goons—Costa Mesa Police Most Corrupt in Nation?
      Police Unions Cross Line While Bullying Public Officials Steven Greenhut, Reason,  8/31/12 California city officials typically spare police officers even modest reductions [...]
• Coupal: How Government Unions Intimidate Corporations
      How Government Unions Intimidate Corporations By Jon Coupal, Union Watch,  8/31/12  Back in the days before he joined the dark side of [...]
• Camden, N.J. Fires 460 Member Police Department—Hires NON UNION Police ONLY
      Gritty N.J. city of Camden to scrap police department amid budget woes By Perry Chiaramonte, FoxNews.com,  8/26/12 Crime-ridden Camden, New Jersey [...]
• California Politicos, Unions Play Pension Roulette
      California Politicos, Unions Play Pension Roulette By Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, nbclosangeles,  8/25/12 “Money” — to paraphrase a famous political dictum — “is [...]
• The California Nurses Association would make Jimmie Hoffa proud.
      The Nurses Tactic Won’t Work With Prop 30 A nurses’ union has posed as being on the side of the underdog. [...]
• LA Times of two minds on power in California
      LA Times of two minds on power in California By Kevin Roderick, | August 19, 20 LA Observed, 8/19/12 The lead story [...]
• Hermosa Beach Police Chief and Councilman Fishman Defend $100,000 Meter Maids on Grounds “When You Outsource, You Take Away Union Jobs”
      Hermosa Beach Police Chief and Councilman Fishman Defend $100,000 Meter Maids on Grounds “When You Outsource, You Take Away Union [...]
• Declaration of war’: Wall Street may end up going after union benefits in Stockton.
      Stockton bankruptcy leads to pension clash By: Peter Henderson and Jim Christie, SF Examiner, 08/13/12 ‘Declaration of war’: Wall Street may end [...]
• California Law Allows Unions To Stalk and Harass Workers and Their Families
      States Exempt Labor Unions from Stalking, Trespassing Laws Lachlan Markay, The Foundry, Heritage Foundation, 8/10/12 At least four states provide exemptions to [...]
• Passage of Prop.32 Needed to Save State and Political Party?
      Any Life Left in The CA GOP? by Adam Sparks, Big Government,  8/8/12 The NY Times just wrote about the demise of [...]
• Sand: Pollution Driven Unionism
      Pollution Driven Unionism By Larry Sand, Union Watch,  7/31/12 AFT president Randi Weingarten trots out “solution driven unionism,” but her “solutions” are [...]
• Mayor Bloomberg Says Cops Should Go On Strike Until Americans Give Up Their Guns
      Mayor Bloomberg Says Cops Should Go On Strike Until Americans Give Up Their Guns Mike Riggs, Reason,  7/24/12 New York Mayor Michael [...]
• Stockton gets Agreement with Unions—But Continues to Collect Dues for Private Organization–UNIONS
      Stockton approves agreements with six labor groups Central Valley Business Times,  7/25/12 •  Furloughs, lower retirement benefits for new hires and [...]
• San Diego Unified School District Wants $2.8 Billion and Sacramento City Unified School District Wants $346 Million from Taxpayers; Unions to Get Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements
      San Diego Unified School District Wants $2.8 Billion and Sacramento City Unified School District Wants $346 Million from Taxpayers; Unions [...]
• CA student assistants get the ax as part of union pay-cut deal
      California student assistants get the ax as part of union pay-cut deal By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee,  7/23/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY [...]
• Nursing home operator wants probe after union workers stage walkout, alleged sabotage
      Nursing home operator wants probe after union workers stage walkout, alleged sabotage FoxNews.com, 7/21/12 The owner of several Connecticut nursing homes is [...]
• County supervisor races shaping up to be union versus anti-union
      County supervisor races shaping up to be union versus anti-union By: Sharon Gilbert, Examiner, 7/20/12 It is not hard to figure out [...]
• Stockton had it Coming—Gov’t Killed the City by Greed and Arrogance
      Misunderstanding Stockton The bankrupt city isn’t merely a victim of circumstance. Steen Greenhut,  City Journal,  7/3/12 An aging industrial port city 85 miles [...]
• Unions MOST Responsible for the Bankruptcy of Stockton
      Stockton CA Files Bankruptcy, Largest City Ever By Mike Shedlock, Union Watch,  6/28/12 The city of Stockton, California, is Bankrupt. It has [...]
• California Is a Union State. Mississippi is a Free State. Mississippi gets the jobs
      Nissan to hire 1,000 new workers in Mississippi Memphis Business Journal by Jane Donahoe, 6/29/12 Nissan will hire 1,000 new workers at [...]
• SEIU-Bank Bashing Union Is Making Money With A High-Interest Credit Card
      This Bank Bashing Union Is Making Money With A High-Interest Credit Card Peter Schweizer, Government Accountability Institute, 6/4/12 With the Service Employees [...]
• San Fran: Unions Force Workers to Wait for Busses When They Strike BART
      AC Transit buses sat empty during BART shutdown By Zusha Elinson, Bay Citizen,  6/26/12 During the BART shutdown earlier this month, as [...]
• A cruel month for public employee unions–great for workers
      A cruel month for public employee unions By Joseph Perkins, Calwatchdog,  6/22/12 California public employee unions were already having a bad June, [...]
• California’s Public Sector Unions Spend Over $750 Million Per Year
      California’s Public Sector Unions Spend Over $750 Million Per Year By Editor, Union Watch,  6/22/12 Earlier this week the California Public Policy [...]
• Union warns of possible Dignity Health strike of”Nurses”
      Union warns of possible Dignity Health strike Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 6/19/12 Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West has [...]
• CA Public Employees Win Concessions in New Budget
      California Public Employees Win Concessions in New Budget By Michael B. Marois and James Nash, Bloomberg, 6/18/12 The budget California’s Democratic- controlled [...]
• CNA and SEIU-UHW Battle Over Labor’s Future–The Sick Held Hostage
      CNA and SEIU-UHW Battle Over Labor’s Future by Randy Shaw‚ Beyond Chron,  6/18/12 Going public with longstanding concerns about SEIU-UHW’s partnership [...]
• The Next Union Battle in CA: Stopping Payroll Deductions for Political Spending
      The Next Union Battle in California: Stopping Payroll Deductions for Political Spending Scott Shackford, Reason,  6/15/12 While San Diego and San Jose [...]
• Berman: Real labor reform would empower workers
      Real labor reform would empower workers By Rick Berman, Daily Caller,  3/20/12 Richard Kahlenberg and Moshez Marvit’s new book, “Why Labor [...]
• Nurses Picket Patients and Hospitals—Unions Over the Sick
      Nurses to picket Arrowhead Regional Medical Center over contract, patient safety Sharon Gilbert, Los Angeles County Political Buzz Examiner, [...]
• Following big victories for public-pension reform in CA, the union empire takes to the courts.
      Now, the Union Pushback Following big victories for public-pension reform in California, the union empire takes to the courts. Steve Greenhut, City [...]
• Unions Still Support Democrats
      Unions Still Support Democrats 24/7 Wall Street,  6/11/12   American unions and their members have supported Democrats for decades. Democrats continue to be seen as [...]
• Wisconsin: No Bribes to Work for Gov’t—CA—MUST Pay Bribes to Work for Gov’t
      Hey California: Meet Wisconsin Austin Hill, Townhall.com, 6/10/12 It was one giant step for a man, and one giant leap toward fiscal [...]
• Unions Sue San Jose and San Diego to STOP Pension Reform and to Bankrupt These Cities
    San Diego Asks Appeals Court to Rule on Pension Measure       San Diego News Room, 6/7/12 SAN DIEGO (CNS) [...]
• Grimes: Legislating ‘justice for janitors’
      Legislating ‘justice for janitors’ By Katy Grimes, CalWatchdog,  6/7/12 SACRAMENTO — California legislators are routinely approached by special interest groups to carry [...]
• Another Major Union Setback—Loss of UNION Jobs—Gain of Honest Jobs
      Labor agreement dropped from Dulles rail deal Washington Times,  6/6/12 When the issue of a PLA for the second phase was introduced [...]
• Why is California in a Depression? Look for the union label.
      Big Labor’s Other Disaster: California Thomas Lifson, American Thinker,  6/6/12 Voters in San Diego and San Jose, the 8th and tenth biggest [...]
• Union Grocery Workers in NorCal Want to Close Down Raleys and Lose Their Jobs
      Union members vote to approve Raley’s strike Sacramento Business Journal by Kelly Johnson, Staff Writer and Social-Media Strategist, 6/6/12 A majority of [...]
• Editorial: The Unions VERY Bad Day at the Polls by Stephen Frank
        Editorial   The Unions VERY Bad Day at the Polls Exclusive Editorial to the California Political News and Views, by Stephen Frank, [...]
• San Diego Ballot Measures: Families vs. Unions—End Project Labor Agreements and Pension Reform
        City ballot propositions pit supporters against labor unions         San Diego Newsroom, 6/3/12 SAN DIEGO (CNS) – San Diego [...]
• CA government unions move to squeeze out private contractors
      California government unions move to squeeze out private contractors By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento, 6/4/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “The [...]
• Milken Institute: Costs 23% MORE To Operate Business in CA—Thanks to UNIONS
      How California Unions Hijacked the Golden State By NRTW Committee Staff, 5/31/12 Liz Peeks at the Fiscal Times looks at the political [...]
• When Given a Choice: 54% LEAVE Wisconsin Unions
      Wisconsin Unions Dwindle Ahead of Recall Vote BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff, 5/31/12 Public-employee unions in Wisconsin have experienced a dramatic [...]
• CTA Encourages Teachers to Use Classrooms to Promote Political Agenda
      CTA Encourages Teachers to Use Classrooms to Promote Political Agenda By Editor, Union Watch,  5/25/12 The May 2012 issue of “California Educator,” [...]
• Gov’t owned Hospitals: Salaries to be set by Initiative
  Who should set the salaries of government administrators of hospitals—a board of directors, a legislative body?  Or the voters on [...]
• SEIU-UHW Blew $3.5 Million of Forced Dues on Phony Ballot Drive
      SEIU-UHW Blew $3.5 Million of Forced Dues on Phony Ballot Drive by Randy Shaw‚ Beyond Chron,  5/16/12 Newly released campaign spending [...]
• How California Unions Hijacked the Golden State
      How California Unions Hijacked the Golden State By LIZ PEEK, The Fiscal Times, 5/16/12 Californians should know better. Their state, best known for [...]
• Bullying Unions Kill Whole Companies—Like Stella D’Oro
  Unions steal from workers—then, if really angry, will kill whole companies. “I watched an HBO documentary, “No Contract, No Cookies,” which [...]
• Love the SEIU: Facing SEIU picket, Planned Parenthood cancels fundraiser
      Facing SEIU picket, Planned Parenthood cancels fundraiser By Caroline May, Daily Caller,  5/11/12 Trouble in liberal paradise. It seems that the Planned Parenthood [...]
• Unionized San Fran Strip Club Might Close—Because it is a Union Run Club
  We know unions have killed the auto, steel and manufacturing industries in America.       Nation’s Only Unionized Strip Club May Close The Lusty [...]
• National Education Association Declared May 4 “Stand Up to Bullying Day”—But Continues to Bully Teachers Every Day
      Stand Up To Bullying Day By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 5/8/12 The NEA says that May 4th should be devoted to anti-bullying. [...]
• San Fran Union Workers Unreliable: 12% Per Day Do Not Show for Work at Muni
      Canceled Bus Runs Draw Attention to Absent Drivers Muni cancellations remain high, leaving passengers with long [...]
• Long Beach Unions to Use Ballot to Raise Wages and Kill Jobs
  Long Beach ‘Living Wage’ Backers File Signatures for November Ballot By Howard Fine, Los Angeles Business Journal, 5/4/12 Backers of a proposal [...]
• SEIU Drops Ballot Measures to Control Hospitals
      California hospital labor groups drop November ballot plans Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal by David Goll, 5/3/12 Officials of the [...]
• Unions falter in fighting benefit cuts with workers losing jobs
      Unions falter in fighting benefit cuts By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee,  5/4/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON ARTICLE “For the most part, [...]
• State Trying to Force Cities to Use Only Extortionist Unions—hundreds of millions in added costs. Brown payoff to Unions?
      What does state PLA legislation mean for Prop A?       Written by Emily Holding, San Diego News Room, [...]
• Obama Lies To Union That Supports Keystone XL Pipeline
      Obama Lies To Union That Supports Keystone XL Pipeline Investors,  5/1/12 Politics: The president tells building-and-trades union workers that Republicans have blocked [...]
• Union Forces 12 Day Furloughs for 24 Sacramento Library Jobs in Bully Effort—Gov’t Stands Up to Bullies
      Negotiation stalemate results in furloughs for library employees by Melissa Corker, Sacramento Press, 4/30/12 The Sacramento Public Library Authority imposed furloughs on [...]
• Union seeks to stop hotel over living wage
      Union seeks to stop hotel over living wage   By Ashley Archibald, Santa Monica Daily Press,  4/24/12 CITY HALL — Members of the [...]
• Boeing to Grow Again in RIGHT TO WORK STATE—no extortion by Unions of Workers
      Boeing secures option on more land in South Carolina Puget Sound Business Journal by Steve Wilhelm, 4/24/12 Boeing has secured an option [...]
• Survey: No jobs for 43 percent of newly licensed nurses
      Survey: No jobs for 43 percent of newly licensed nurses Central Valley Business Times,  4/23/12 •  Lack of experience cited most [...]
• Union Nurses to Strike and Harm Patients on May 1—Communist May Day
      California Nurses Association plans Sutter strike Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson, 4/23/12 Angry at a lack of progress at the bargaining [...]
• Seiler: Brown, Skelton should ‘man up’ on unions
        Brown, Skelton should ‘man up’ on unions By John Seiler, CalWatchdog,  4/19/12 Gov. Jerry Brown said the state Legislature should “man up” [...]
• Union Nurses Pretend to Protect Children—Actually Oppose Saving $$ for Health Care
    Nurses Protest Closure of Pediatric Unit at Kaiser in Hayward By Bay City News Service, 4/17/12 Nurses and community groups are holding [...]
• Can Wal-Mart Scale L.A.’s Great Wall of Regulation and Union Hatred of Citizens?
        Can Wal-Mart Scale L.A.’s Great Wall of Regulation? Opponents claim local Asian-Americans oppose the big-box store. Locals tell a different story. Charles [...]
• Bribe Paying (Dues?) Cops Lose Benefits in Stockton, per Court
    Stockton Can Suspend Police Accrued Vacation Payouts Mishs Global Economic Trend Analysis,  4/15/12 A California Superior Court Judge says Stockton Can [...]
• CSU Bribe Payers Threaten to Strike—Kill a Whole Year of Education
        CSU strike vote starts today Central Valley Business Times, 4/16/12 •  Fact-finding comes next •  ‘We hope we will get a [...]
• CTA: California’s Unteachable Union
      California’s Unteachable Union The CTA backs a tax increase that would worsen the state’s economic travails. Troy Senik, City Journal, 4/10/12 Certain perennials [...]
• Another Union Found Guilty of Intimidation–$1.7 million judgment
        Shame: $1.7 Million Jury Verdict Against Carpenters Union By National Right to Work,  4/10/12 The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a [...]
• List of SEIU Owned/Endorsed Candidates
      SEIU California Backs Candidates with Courage & Conviction to Fight for the Middle Class SEIU Press Release,  3/21/12 Congressional, State Senate and [...]
• Rep. Darrell Issa Confronts Illegal Union Political Spending
    Rep. Darrell Issa Confronts Illegal Union Political Spending By Patrick Richardson, PJ Media, 3/23/12 PJ Media has reported on incidents of workers [...]
• Doing union work on the government clock?
    Doing union work on the government clock? By Melissa Maynard, Stateline,  3/26/12 The Arizona legislature is considering making it illegal for [...]
• Unions Open Agenda to Force Workers to Pay Bribes in Order to Work
      A Not So Hidden Agenda Posted by  David A. Lehrer, Jewish Joiurnal,  3/23/12 A game changer that the City Council didn’t stop, [...]
• Another City where Unions Holding Citizens Hostage—Go to Court to Stop Pension Reform
      Legal Clash over Pension Initiative Continues in Menlo Park as Union Votes on New Contract California City News,  3/22/12 Back in 2010, [...]
• Unions Legal Begins Legal Battle Over San Jose’s Pension Reform Measure
      Early Start: Legal Battle Begins Over San Jose’s Pension Reform Measure California City News,  3/20/12 When the San Jose City Council officially [...]
• Stop Discounting Wal-Mart
      Stop Discounting Wal-Mart Charles Crumpley, City Watch, 3/13/12 LA BUSINESS – No sooner had Wal-Mart said it would put a grocery [...]
• The Union War on School Volunteers
      The Union War on School Volunteers By Editor, Union Watch, 3/13/12 There are so many facets to the problem of public sector [...]
• Democrats/Unions STEAL from the sick and elderly
  Rep. Darrell Issa Confronts Forced Unionism By Patrick Richardson, PJ Media, 3/8/12 Rep. Darrell Issa’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform [...]
• Will state agencies derail local pension reforms?
      Will state agencies derail local pension reforms? Ed Mendel, CalPensions, 3/8/12 While unions oppose key parts of Gov. Brown’s 12-point pension reform plan [...]
• Stealth-Unionization Scheme Bleeds Medicaid
  Robert and Patricia Haynes of Macomb Township take care of their adult children — Melissa, 34, and Kevin, 30 — [...]
• Union Bullies Try to Stop People From Working and Close Job Site
  Picketers protest Inn at the Park construction By Anthony King | SDUN, 2/17/12   A group of approximately 60 people representing the Carpenters [...]
• CA Attorney General Distorts Democracy to Aid Unions
  California Attorney General Distorts Democracy to Aid Unions By Steven Greenhut, Union Watch, 2/20/12 We expect all sides in politics to [...]
• San Diego Teachers Turning Against Elitist Union Leaders
  Rumblings from Teachers After Union Backs Away by [...]
• This strike is against the California Nurses Association
  This strike is against the California Nurses Association Sacramento Business Journal [...]
• Paying Off Union Costs Taxpayers $116 Million for ONE Project
  Nicole Goehring: VTA’s project labor agreement will increase BART line costs By Nicole Goehring, Special to the Mercury News, 2/13/12 TO [...]
• Union Chief LIES, Takes Over Public Forum
  Station Head Says Union Chief Co-Opted Anaheim Forum voiceofoc.org, 2/15/12 The head of the Los Angeles ABC station that held a televised [...]
• LA: Union Bo$$ d’Arcy’s “Investment” Pays Off Big Time
    Union Bo$$ d’Arcy’s “Investment” Pays Off Big Time Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA, 2/13/12 LA WATCHDOG – Bloomberg reporters [...]
• CA Legislator Proposes “Public Employee Bill of Rights”-For UNIONS to set work rules
  California Legislator Proposes “Public Employee Bill of Rights” By Editor, Union Watch, 2/14/12 The average state or local government worker in California [...]
• Union Boss: Life Isn’t Fair When Union Bosses Control Education
  Union Boss: Life Isn’t Fair When Union Bosses Control Education On February 9, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff New Jersey [...]
• CTA Sponsored Legislation Could Cripple Charter School Growth–Union Hates Quality Education
  CTA Sponsored Legislation Could Cripple Charter School Growth By Larry Sand, Union Watch,  2/7/12 The California Teachers Association can’t realistically unionize [...]
• Workers in Stockton Throw Out Union/Extortionists
  Workers vote to decertify union at O’Connor Woods By Joe Goldeen, Stockton Record,  2/4/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON [...]
• Unions Deliberately Kill Grocery Jobs in Sacramento Area
  Raley’s says prolonged labor talks costing it millions, will bargain on its own By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee, 2/2/12 TO SEE COMPLETE [...]
• Unions NOT Unified in Harming Kaiser Patients
  Three Kaiser Unions Walk Out Again in California; SEIU Stays Put by Steve Early‚ Beyond Chron,  2/2/12 As [...]
• Union membership continues to decline–fewer bribe payers
    Union membership continues to decline Central Valley Business Times, 1/30/12 •  But rate of decline flattens out •  Just 11.8 [...]
• CA Unions Demand Productive People Give $$ to Gov’t
  AFSCME, Others Endorse Millionaire’s Tax by Restoring California‚ 1/31/12 SACRAMENTO, CA – Restoring California, the coalition of [...]
• Kaiser strike apparently fizzles -Great news for Patients and Freedom
  Kaiser strike apparently fizzles Sacramento Business Journal [...]
• CA has 16% of U.S. union members–Depression State
    California has 16% of U.S. union members San Francisco Business Times [...]
• Labor Turmoil: Union Plans One-Day Strike in Riverside; Protesting Benefit Changes
  Labor Turmoil: Union Plans One-Day Strike in Riverside; Protesting Benefit Changes California County News, 1/26/12 Much like workers in Fresno [...]
• MICHAEL DER MANOUEL JR.: SEIU strike decision is an affront to taxpayers
  . MICHAEL DER MANOUEL JR.: SEIU strike decision is an affront to taxpayers By Michael Der Manouel Jr., with his permission,  [...]
• November’s Ground Zero Initiative–Ending Extortion is Controversial
  November’s Ground Zero Initiative Posted by John Myers, KQED, 1/22/12 While talk about California’s November ballot has focused largely on [...]
• Teachers Union Prefers to bankrupt San Diego Schools
  Teachers Union: We’ve Heard Budget Woes Before by [...]
• Three unions plan strike against Kaiser–Union Uber Alles–Patients Be Damned
  Three unions plan strike against Kaiser Sacramento Business Journal [...]
• Fresno Bribe Payers Now Refuse to Work
  4,000 Fresno County workers to begin strike Monday By Kurtis Alexander – The Fresno Bee, 1/18/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON [...]
• Unions Blackmail Walnut Creek: City NOT Forcing Workers to Pay Bribes on Construction Projects
  Walnut Creek sued by carpenter’s union over apartment project By Elisabeth Nardi, Contra Costa Times, 1/13/12 TO SEE COMPLETE [...]
• Grimes: CA: High-Speed Platinum Contracts
  High-Speed Platinum Contracts By KATY GRIMES, CalWatchdog,  1/13/12 It’s like a runaway train pushing a side a cow on the tracks. [...]
• Experts are taking a second look at CAs rail and climate-change programs. Will Guv Brown?
  High-Speed Platinum Contracts By KATY GRIMES, CalWatchdog,  1/13/12 It’s like a runaway train pushing a side a cow on the tracks. [...]
• Police Union Sues Claremont and Chamber of Commerce; Claims Free Speech Violated
  Police Union Sues Claremont and Chamber of Commerce; Claims Free Speech Violated California City News, 1/12/12 In October, the city of [...]
• Kaiser workers may be planning another strike –unions first, patients last–the union way
  If you are a client or patient at Kaiser, you need to know the nurses work for the unions, not [...]
• Teamsters Decide to Strike and KILL CA Jobs as Blackmail
  Teamsters expand pipeline strike to California Central Valley Business Times, 1/11/12 •  Began in Pennsylvania and West Virginia •  Issue is [...]
• SEIU Voter Fraud Caught in Wisconsin
  Warrant Issued for SEIUorganizers By NRTW Committee Staff, 1/6/12 From Media Trackers: In Wisconsin, Milwaukee Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf issued [...]
• The Hidden Dangers of the “Living Wage” –Jobs Killed by Unions
  The Hidden Dangers of the “Living Wage” by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of [...]
• Sand: State Sponsored Thievery Continues in Plain Sight
  Government, by definition is theft.  It takes from some, giving to others, and has waste and corruption in the middle. “CalSTRS [...]
• Voters Revolting Against Union/Government Corruption
  The taxpayers of California and many of our cities are being ripped off by a conspiracy between unions [...]
• CA Court Backs Gov’t Unions “Contract on CA”
    California Court Backs Government Union’s “Contract on California” By Steven Greenhut, Union Watch, 12/27/11 As the public employee pension and health care [...]
• Official Time: Gov’t Workers Perform Union Duties on the Taxpayers’ Dime
  Official Time: Government Workers Perform Union Duties on the Taxpayers’ Dime http://capitalresearch.org/2011/11/official-time-government-workers-perform-union-duties-on-the-taxpayers%E2%80%99-dime/ By Vincent Vernuccio, Capital Research Center,  11/01/11 Title V of the [...]
• Unions Unhappy About Paying More for Health Care and Pensions
  Santa Ana Service Employees Unhappy With Budget Deal ADAM ELMAHREK, voiceofoc.org, 12/22/11 Members of the Santa Ana City Council this week [...]
• Fondling little girls, little boys and beautiful women not enough for TSA agents
  Union calls TSA contract negotiations ‘very discouraging’ By Amanda Palleschi, govexec, 12/20/11 The once-promising outlook for contract talks between the American Federation [...]
• Teachers Union to Public: You are Too Dumb To Serve on a School Board
  Teachers Union President Deems Education Too Complex for Tax-Paying Rubes Kyle Olson, Townhall, 12/21/11 It’s so reassuring to have the intellectual elites [...]
• Santa Ana Police and Service Employee Unions Approve Givebacks
  Santa Ana Police and Service Employee Unions Approve Givebacks voiceofsandiego,  12/19/11 Santa Ana’s police and service employees unions this week ratified agreements [...]
• How Gov’t Unions And Their Allies On Wall Street Are Destroying CA
  How Government Unions And Their Allies On Wall Street Are Destroying California By Editor, Union Watch,  12/19/11 With government employees, a union [...]
• Teamsters Discriminate Against Members of the “Wrong” Union
  NRTW Attorneys Win Victory Against ‘Army Wives’ Teamsters On December 20, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff, 12/20/11 Union policies prevented nonunion employees [...]
• Corrupt Unions Fighting for title of “Most Corrupt”
  As NUHW grows stronger, SEIU officials are having a panic attack… NUHW, National Union of Healthcare Workers, 12/18/11 Dear Steve, At Providence Tarzana [...]
• Unions “Allowing” $2 million health care cuts–to save jobs
      Health Plan Savings First Step Toward Averting School Layoffs By Kyla Calvert, KPBS San Diego,  12/15/11 City school officials and union leaders [...]
• Unions to “Green Companies”: Refuse to Pay Bribes and you are Dirty
  Can a Green Company Have a Dirty Labor Record? by Tom Dalzell‚ beyond Chron, 12/15/11 In the past few years, we’ve seen [...]
• United Teachers Los Angeles: If this is social justice, social justice is garbage
  United Teachers Los Angeles: If this is social justice, social justice is garbage Chris Reed, CalWhine,  12/11/11 As I noted a couple [...]
• SF Muni savings outlook hits bumpy road–Unions Outsmart Officials
  Muni savings outlook hits bumpy road By: Will Reisman, SF Examiner, 12/12/11 Those labor savings from Muni’s historic contract negotiations with its [...]
• Ohio Bribe Payers Win Election and Lose Jobs
  Ohio a month later; reality rather than Big Labor propaganda hits workers By NRTW Committee Staff,  12/10/11 Big Labor’s Big Lies are [...]
• Unions Trying to Close Down Stockton
  Union Tactics in Stockton Anger Officials as Feud Heats Up in Budget-Weary City California City News,  12/05/11  h In light of major [...]
• Postal Service announces closure of 252 processing facilities
  Postal Service announces closure of 252 processing facilities By Caitlin Fairchild, Government Exec,   12/05/11 The U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with [...]
• Sand: The Route to Teacher Union Extinction: Is the Other Shoe Dropping?
  The Route to Teacher Union Extinction: Is the Other Shoe Dropping? By Larry Sand, Union Watch,  12/06/11 http://unionwatch.org/the-route-to-teacher-union-extinction-is-the-other-shoe-dropping/ In addition to online learning, [...]
• Former SEIU Leader: I Hate Workers All Over the World–Not Just the United States
  Union Man Andy Stern Loves China; Chinese Workers, Not So Much by Alain Sherter‚ Beyond Chron,  12/05/11 Andy Stern knows how to [...]
• San Fran Muni union’s frustrated members to pick new leaders
  Muni union’s frustrated members to pick new leaders By: Will Reisman, SF Examer,  12/04/11 Following contentious labor negotiations in which rank-and-file members [...]
• Opponents of the “prison-industrial complex” have been looking the wrong way–Look at the Unions
  The Real Prison Industry Opponents of the “prison-industrial complex” have been looking the wrong way. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/284051 Jonah Goldberg, National Review,  11/25/11 I’ve long thought [...]
• Manufacturing Needs Right to Work–Union States Losing Jobs–Freedom States Gaining Jobs
  Manufacturing Needs Right to Work By NRTW Committee Staff, 11/22/11 If America is ever going to get back on its feet, its [...]
• More support for teachers than unions
  More support for teachers than unions Poll: Most voters would pay higher taxes By John Fensterwald – Educated Guess, 11/21/11 For all the [...]
• Sand: CA Looming Fiscal Disaster: Sunlight and an Informed Public are the Best Disinfectants
  California’s Looming Fiscal Disaster: Sunlight and an Informed Public are the Best Disinfectants By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 11/22/11 With the state [...]
• Occupiers aim for West Coast port shutdowns
  Occupiers aim for West Coast port shutdowns Sally Zelikovsky, American Thinker,  11/19/11 On Friday night, November 18th, Occupy Oakland approved a coordinated [...]
• Sand: Why CA teachers’ unions will eventually go the way of Betamax.
  Disrupting Class Why California’s teachers’ unions will eventually go the way of Betamax. Larry Sand,  11/14/11 Slowly but surely, “disruptive technology” is penetrating [...]
• PowerTaken From Unions In Democrat Palo Alto
  Election Coverage: Palo Alto Voters Strongly Support Repeal of Binding Arbitration Provision California City News,  11/10/11 During Tuesday’s election, voters in the [...]
• CSU faculty irritated, to take to picket lines–REFUSE To Teach
  CSU faculty irritated, to take to picket lines Central Valley Business Times, 11/8/11 •  Informational picketing today and Wednesday •  ‘His priorities are [...]
• Obama Approves of Union Corruption
  More Good News for Union Bosses:  Department of Labor Eliminates Conflict of Interest Disclosure by Don Loos,Big Government,  11/7/11 On the 26th [...]
• October 2011 Big Labor Criminal Roundup
  October 2011 Big Labor Criminal Roundup By NRTW Committee Staff,11/3/11 >From the US DOL we find that union corruption and criminal behavior [...]
• Labor Department Official Advises Unions to Circumvent Disclosure Rules
  Labor Department Official Advises Unions to Circumvent Disclosure Rules by Don Loos, Big Government,11/3/11 In April we exposed Obama’s overseer of union [...]
• Occupy Movement, Labor on Collision Course with Obama–NOT True
  Occupy Movement, Labor on Collision Course with Obama by Randy Shaw‚ Beyond Chron,  11/3/11 With organized labor increasing support for the Occupy [...]
• Unions OPENLY Promote Violence–Want Violent Takeovers of Banks and Bridges
  Union Chief Leo Gerard: ‘Resistance Movement’ Needed to Seize Bridges, Banks in Case OWS Fails By Jack Coleman, Newsbusters, 11/2/11 United Steelworkers [...]
• United Teachers Los Angeles wages its own war on “the 1 percent”
  The Union’s Occupation United Teachers Los Angeles wages its own war on “the 1 percent” Ben Boychuk, City Journal,  10/28/11 Until recently, it’s [...]
• SEIU Exposed–is it the most corrupt organization in America?
  SEIU Exposed by devilatmydoorstep, 10/28/11 The SEIU’s Persuasion of Power appears to be wearing thin even within its own membership. Over the [...]
• Unions and the Occupiers–Uneasy Alliance
  The “Uneasy” Alliance National Right to Work Committee, 10/26/11 We have continually pointed out that union bosses are authorizing union dues money [...]
• Another Union $$$ Rip Off: State workers and their crazy-high non-wage payouts
  State workers and their crazy-high non-wage payouts Mark Lacter, LA Observed, 10/26/11 We’re talking overtime, unused vacation time, and a maze of [...]
• Unions Grow Gov’t Jobs with Food Stamp paperwork efforts
  County Hiring New Food Stamps Workers by Adrian Florido, voiceofsandiego.org,10/25/11 This afternoon, I appeared on KPBS’ Midday Edition to discuss how long [...]
• Teachers $ Stolen by Union to support Anarchists, Thieves and Socialists
  CTA Dons Victim Guise and Joins OWS Crowd By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 10/25/11 It’s almost Halloween and the California Teachers Association, [...]
• Save the Santa Ana Libraries: Privatize, End Union Rule
  Employees: Anaheim Planning to Lay Off Eight More Librarians NICK GERDA, voiceofoc, 10/19/11 Several Anaheim library employees say the city is planning [...]
• Steve Jobs Knew Government Schools Are Failures
  S. Jobs: Unions Keeping Kids Dumb JOHN SEILER, Cal Watchdog, 10/21/11 Excerpts now are appearing from the new Walter Isaacson bio of [...]
• CA prisons issuing 26,000 layoff warning notices
  California prisons issuing 26,000 layoff warning notices Sacramento Bee, 10/21/11 CLICK ON THE BLUE HEADLINE TO SEE THE COMPLETE STORY “Affected employees have [...]
• Paycheck Protection Makes a California Comeback Next November
  Paycheck Protection Makes a California Comeback by  John Gizzi, Human Events, 10/19/2011 Although the Supreme Court has ruled more than once in [...]
• In the end, Jerry Brown is just a union guy
  In the end, Jerry Brown is just a union guy By: Steven Greenhut, SF Examiner, 10/16/11h As the legislative session came to [...]
• Breitbart Feels the SEIU’s Persuasion of Power–BULLYING
  Breitbart Feels the SEIU’s Persuasion of Power By Dave Bego, Union Watch, 10/17/11 BigGovernment.com founder Andrew Breitbart received another taste of SEIU [...]
• Union Official: Santa Ana Could Miss Payroll in November–They Broke it, They Own it
  Union Official: Santa Ana Could Miss Payroll in November voiceofoc.org, 10/15/11 The city of Santa Ana is so low on cash that [...]
• Hrabe: Union Activists Intimidate Petitioners
  Union Activists Intimidate Petitioners Editor’s Note: This story is the second in a three-part series on San Diego’s battle for pension [...]
• Golden State Madness–State on Drugs?
  Golden State Madness Katy Grimes, Cal Watchdog,  10/10/11 To understand the madness oozing from California, one only has to look at some [...]
• Will Union and Illegal Aliens Run Santa Ana to Bankruptcy? You Bet it Will
  Does Bankruptcy Await Santa Ana? ADAM ELMAHREK, voiceofoc.org, 10/10/11 Although Santa Ana city officials and union leaders are saying they can work [...]
• LA Port Court Decision: Unions Can’t Force truckers to pay bribes to work
  L.A. Port Won’t Challenge Ruling on Employee Mandate By James Rufus Koren, LA Business Journal,  10/06/11 The Port of Los Angeles will [...]
• Union Owns LA Mayor–Trying to Buy Up Rest of City With $millions
  Pat McOsker & IBEW Union Bo$$ d’Arcy: Real Bad News for DWP Ratepayers Jack Humphreville, city Watch LA, 10/06/11 One of the [...]
• Will San Diego Save or or Lose $$ by NOT Bribing Unions?
  How Big Is the Labor Agreement Ban Loophole by Keegan Kyle, voiceofsandiego, 10/05/11 The battle’s brewing in San Diego over union-friendly construction [...]
• San Diego to Allow Voters to Stop Payoffs to Unions by Gov’t
  PLA ban to go before voters next year CNS, 10/04/11 SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The San Diego City Council voted today [...]
• As Usual Unions Create Loss of Jobs in San Fran
  Street fight is brewing over San Francisco’s road repair bond By: Joshua Sabatini, SF Examiner, 10/03/11 Unforeseen political fights have created bumps [...]
• Democrats Want Poor to have Healthy Foods–But NOT From Wal Mart
  Legislating More Grocery Stores and Farmers Markets A state bill declaring access to healthy food as a “human right” is close [...]
• Brown Hands Out More Union Gifts
  Brown Hands Out More Union Gifts By KATY GRIMES, Cal Watchdog,  10/03/11 For unions, Gov. Jerry Brown is the governor who keeps [...]
• 200 Convicted Criminal Aliens Arrested in SoCal–5X That Many in Simi Valley
  200 Convicted Criminal Aliens Arrested in SoCal Among the arrestees is Jose Gallardo, 51, a Mexican national living in North Hollywood [...]
• Cal State Union Calls For Mobs And Bullying
  Cal State Union Calls For Mobs And Bullying By STEVEN GREENHUT, Cal Watchdog, 9/29/11 The California State University Employees Union is encouraging [...]
• Finally! Responsible Unions Found–in San Jose
  San Jose: Pension Reform Leader by Liam Dillon,voiceofsandiego, 9/29/11 It’s the seed at the center of cities’ pension problems across the country: [...]
• The Senator Doth Protest Too Much–From San Fran, to be Expected
  The Senator Doth Protest Too Much Katy Grimes, Cal Watchdog, 9/23/11 In response to two stories I recently wrote about sneaky amendments [...]
• A Quick Primer on Project Labor Agreements–Payoffs for Union Extortion
  A Quick Primer on Project Labor Agreements by Keegan Kyle, vocieofsandiego.org, 9/21/11 Now that proponents of a ballot measure to block labor-friendly [...]
• The AFL-CIO Defends Union Violence As A ‘Legitimate’ Union Activity…
  The AFL-CIO Defends Union Violence As A ‘Legitimate’ Union Activity… by LaborUnionReport, Big Government,9/24/11 NLRB Chairman’s Former Law Partner Defends Union Violence A [...]
• Ballot Measure in San Diego to Make Gov’t Contracts Honest–Such a Concept
  New Initiative Sets Stage for Latest Labor, Business Battle by Keegan Kyle, voiceofsandiego,  9/21/11 A ballot measure aimed at blocking union-friendly construction [...]
• The SEIU Caves, Settles RICO Lawsuit ASAP
  The SEIU Caves, Settles RICO Lawsuit ASAP Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA,  9/19/11 LA WATCHDOG – On Thursday, the 2.1 million member [...]
• A Genuine CA Union Conspiracy: The CA Building Trades Council’s Ratepayer-Funded Political Slush Fund
  A Genuine California Union Conspiracy: The California Building Trades Council’s Ratepayer-Funded Political Slush Fund Kevin Dayton, 9/21/11 This scheme is complicated, but [...]
• Taxpayers Foot Bill For Union Organizing
      Taxpayers Foot Bill For Union Organizing Steven Greenhut, Cal Watchdog, 9/21/11 In Phoenix, taxpayers get to foot the bill for union organizing [...]
• SEIU Wants to “Occupy” Businesses, Close Them Down
  SEIU’s Lerner Calls for Mass Action to Create “Crisis” by TrevorLoudon, 9/20/11 The SEIU’s Stephen Lerner calls for a mass escalation of [...]
• Grocery Strike Averted–Customers to Pay for Union Agreement
  Grocery workers strike averted San Diego News Room,  9/19/11 A strike by 10,000 grocery workers in San Diego County was averted [...]
• Santa Barbara: Unions Say “Uncle”–Saves taxpayers $24 Million
    New Pact with Santa Barbara’s Largest Union Called a ‘Huge Deal;’ Over $20 Million in Savings California City News,  9/19/11 Under a [...]
• Rasmussen: 48% See No Further Need for Labor Unions, 30% Disagree
  48% See No Further Need for Labor Unions, 30% Disagree Rasmussen Reports, 9/16/11 Half of American Adults (48%) think labor unions have [...]
• Union Gives Grocery Stores 72 Hour Notice; Possible Strike Looms
  The better idea is for the strikers to sign a petition to decertify the union and keep their jobs. Union Gives [...]
• Are Postal Workers: The Last Union?
  Postal Workers: The Last Union by Allison Kilkenny‚ Beyond Chron, 9/13/11 The recent attacks against the United States Postal Service (USPS) are [...]
• Beverly Hills Police Union Attorney Criticizes Council on Pay Cuts
  Police Union Lawyer Criticizes Council on Pay Cuts Beverly Hills Police Officers Association attorney Stephen Silver tells panel members at Thursday’s [...]
• Grimes: Follow the Union Brick Road
      Follow the Union Brick Road By KATY GRIMES, Cal Watchdog, 9/14/11 The trail of campaign contributions leads to all politicians’ doors. However, [...]
• Beverly Hills Police Union Lawyer Criticizes Council on Pay Cuts
  Police Union Lawyer Criticizes Council on Pay Cuts Beverly Hills Police Officers Association attorney Stephen Silver tells panel members at Thursday’s [...]
• Is the SEIU a ‘Racketeering-Influenced & Corrupt’ Enterprise?
  Is the SEIU a ‘Racketeering-Influenced & Corrupt’ Enterprise? Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA, 9/12/11 LA WATCHDOG – In an almost unprecedented action, [...]