Unions

• 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, [...]