Unions

• The Unholy Trinity of Public Sector Unions, Environmentalists, and Wall Street
    The Unholy Trinity of Public Sector Unions, Environmentalists, and Wall Street By Ed Ring, Union Watch, 5/9/14 Taken at surface value, there [...]
• Union Blackmail using “Ballot” Measure Works—Against Patients and Health Care
    California hospitals reach deal with union; initiatives limiting CEO pay dropped Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 5/6/14 The California Hospital Association [...]
• Worst Bill of the Week: AB 1531—Unions Take Over Charter School Boards
    Charter Chicanery By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 5/6/14 Teacher union sponsored bill is a serious threat to California’s charter schools. It’s hardly a [...]
• State Teachers Union Accuses Local Teachers Union of Corruption
    State union fails to seize control of Modesto Teachers Association office By Nan Austin, Modesto Bee, 5/5/14 The California Teachers Association moved [...]
• Los Angeles to Force Airport Workers to Pay Bribes to Third Party for Permission to Work
    Setting up possible legal battle, Los Angeles sets rules that should help LAX unions By Brian Sumers, Daily Breeze, 5/5/14 Airport commissioners [...]
• SEIU membership, revenues plummet after state ends ‘underhanded scheme’
    SEIU membership, revenues plummet after state ends ‘underhanded scheme’ By Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News, 4/30/14 A Michigan branch of the powerful [...]
• San Fran Unions Oppose FREE Buses for Workers
    San Francisco labor, tenant group hopes lawsuit slams brakes on Google buses Eric Young, San Francisco Business Times, 5/1/14 Labor and [...]
• LA Mayor Garcetti: Let SEIU Union Steal From Airport Workers
    Airline group says Los Angeles is considering possibly illegal plan to prop up LAX unions By Brian Sumers, Daily Breeze, 4/29/14 The [...]
• Teamsters Want to END Independent Truckers at Ports—Need the membership Dues
    Truck drivers strike to be treated as employees Scott Bridges, Los Angeles business Journal, 4/28/14 Are truckers employees or independent contractors? That [...]
• BART LIES About Budget Increase—Refuse to Note 3.85% Union Pay Raise
    BART proposes 7 percent bigger operating budget By Denis Cuff Contra Costa Times, 4/25/14 OAKLAND — BART proposes to spend 7 percent [...]
• Will Unions Force Silicon Valley Leftists Into a Libertarian Oriented Republican Party?
    How Will “Ambush” Union Elections Affect Silicon Valley’s Libertarians? By Ed Ring, Union Watch, 4/22/14 Despite being one of the biggest strongholds [...]
• Union Goons Close Down Wal Mart Stores in Texas—Courts Allows Trespassing Lawsuit Against Unions Involved
    Wal-Mart’s Trespass Case May Stick to Union By DAVID LEE, Court House News, 4/21/14     FORT WORTH (CN) - Labor unions and protesters [...]
• UAW Ends Effort to Take Over Tennessee VW Plant and Workers Paychecks
    UAW Ends NLRB Appeal of Volkswagen Union Vote Forbes, 4/21/14 The United Auto Workers union said today it’s withdrawing its objections to a [...]
• Radical Billionaire Made $$ by Buying Companies and Firing Employees—What Will Unions Say?
    The Black Book of Tom Steyer Allegations of fraud plague hedge fund of Democratic super-donor BY: Lachlan Markay, Washington Free Beacon, 4/21/14 The [...]
• Leftist Media Matters Trying to Stop Radical SEIU From Owning its Employees
    Media Matters for America is resisting SEIU’s effort to unionize its staff By Sean Higgins, Washington Examiner, 4/17/14 Media Matters for America [...]
• Freedom!! Modesto Teachers Voting to be Freed of Union Mandate
    Modesto teachers to meet as vote looms on split from statewide union By Nan Austin, Modesto Bee, 4/16/14 Teachers will gather Wednesday [...]
• Sand: UTLA, LAUSD and ACLU Fiddle While Children Don’t Learn
    UTLA, LAUSD and ACLU Fiddle While Children Don’t Learn By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 4/15/14 “Landmark settlement” song has hackneyed words but [...]
• What Recovery? Up to 1,000 SoCal Edison Employees to be Fired—ONLY Non Union Employees
    SoCal Edison to conduct mass firings “SCE’s employment growth is not sustainable,” a company memo said. Scott Bridges, LA Business Journal, 4/15/14 Southern [...]
• United Auto Workers Strike the University of California!! No Joke—They Own the Teaching Assistants
    Striking Teaching Assistants, UC System Expected to Reopen Talks Over Alleged Unfair Labor Practices Union representing 13,000 student-workers at UCSB, other [...]
• Union Force Students to Have Great Teachers AND Bad Teachers
    Terrible Tenure Are 98 percent of California’s teachers worthy of jobs for life? Larry Sand, City Journal, 4/11/14 In California, a public school [...]
• Union Sweetheart Deals Raise San Fran Cost of Living—Now Want Raises To Protect Workers From Union Actions
    SF labor unions asking for pay raises amid hostile cost-of-living environment Posted by Joshua Sabatini, SF Examiner, 4/11/14 Pointing to a [...]
• Union Monopoly ADDS $16 Million to Cost of Oxnard Government High School—Payoff for Union Support?
    “Staggering” Cost of New High School in California: Project Labor Agreement Blamed By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 4/9/14 Sometimes you can predict [...]
• Sacramento Unions: No Jobs or Growth Without Monopoly/High Priced Union Labor
    Union group makes noise over development around arena Ben van der Meer, Sacramento Business Journal, 4/9/14 The next point of contention [...]
• Unions Creepy Money Grubbers—Need Forced Dues to Keep Political Control
    It’s All About the Dues Money! By Dave Bego, Union Watch, 4/9/14 I have repeatedly stressed the fact that today’s big labor [...]
• Obama to Give Unions a Veto Over Where a Company Can Set Up Shop
    Obama to Give Unions a Veto Over Where a Company Can Set Up Shop -By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum, 4/8/14 If [...]
• Even Obama Run National Labor Relations Board Wants Union Bullies Stopped
    Cease and Desist NLRB orders UFCW to stop ‘restraining and coercing employees’ while protesting BY: Bill McMorris, Washington Free Beacon, 4/7/14 The National [...]
• Only We-the Left- Can Feed the Labor Movement Fire
    Only We Can Feed the Labor Movement Fire by Alexandra Bradbury and Jane Slaughter‚ Beyond Chron, 4/8/14 Troublemakers keep hoping for the [...]
• Surprised? Anti-Wal-Mart union leader once threatened janitorial company with death threats
    Anti-Wal-Mart union leader once threatened janitorial company with death threats Patrick Howley, Daily Caller, 4/7/14 The anti-Wal-Mart crusader leading the fight to [...]
• Unions Sues Hospital for High Costs—Mostly Due to Union Demands—Look for the Union Label
    Union trust sues Sutter over alleged anti-trust violations Chris Rauber, San Francisco Business Times, 4/7/14 UPDATE: Although Sutter Health officials say they [...]
• Unions to Get 1200 More Bribe Payers in Los Angeles Unified School District—Help Educate Illegal Aliens
    Deasy’s proposed budget includes 1,200 new staff positions Annie Gilbertson, KPCC, 4/5/14 Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy on Friday [...]
• Unions Try to Close Down Classes at UC Campus—Unions Uber Alles
    UC teaching assistants stage 1-day strike at several SoCal campuses Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, KPCC, 4/3/14 UCLA graduate students supporting a strike by the [...]
• Sen. Walters: CTA Lobbies Against CalSTRS Fix Despite Growing Debt-Inaction Adds $17 BILLION to Debt
    CTA Lobbies Against CalSTRS Fix Despite Growing Debt Senator Mimi Walters, 4/4/14 Even while California’s retirement fund plunges deeper into debt, [...]
• CALIFORNIA’S UNFUNDED RETIREE HEALTHCARE LIABILITY NOW $150 BILLION, RIVALS PENSION DEBT
    California’s Unfunded Retiree Healthcare Liability Now $150 Billion, Rivals Pension Debt Financial analysis reveals San Francisco and LA have highest [...]
• Will SEIU Use of Blackmail Against Patients and Hospitals Work Again?
    Time running out for deal between union, hospital association The California Hospital Association is a trade group that represents hospitals [...]
• California Federation of Teachers¨ Goal is Class Warfare—NOT Education
    California Federation of Teachers Boss Speaks Power to Troops By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 4/1/14 In a refreshingly candid speech, union leader [...]
• College Football Players Win Union-Quarterback Plays for Union, Not School
    Football Players Win Union Doug Lederman and Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 5/26/14 In what could be a landmark case, a [...]
• Arbitrator May Force Hospital to re-Hire over 300 Nurses—With NO money to Pay Them
    Alta Bates Summit, RNs await ruling by outside arbitrator on layoffs The California Nurses Association and Alta Bates Summit Medical Center [...]
• Newspaper Jobs Moved From Union States to Free Worker State-Texas
    Cape Cod Times to move 14 positions to GateHouse’s Texas design center by Sam Kirkland, Poynter, 3/21/14 Cape Cod Times Fourteen newsroom positions [...]
• SEIU Upset: Los Angeles Wants Workers to Pay 10% for Health Care Costs—Private Industry Pays 22%
    Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s health care proposal angers city workers By Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Daily News, 3/20/14 Sanjuana Salas’s workday [...]
• California High-Speed Rail Business Plan Misrepresents Project Labor Agreement
    California High-Speed Rail Business Plan Misrepresents Project Labor Agreement By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 3/18/14 Before submitting its business plan to the [...]
• Michigan SEIU Fined for Misleading State: They Tried to Force Caregivers into being Union Members
    SEIU Hit With Second-Biggest Campaign Finance Fine in Michigan History Fines follow effort to force home-based healthcare workers to pay unions [...]
• San Diego Area Teachers Union: Forget the Kids, We Come First (On Strike, Shut it Down)
    Sweetwater Union Teachers On Standby To Strike By Susan Murphy, KPBS, 3/17/14 The Sweetwater teachers union, which represents nearly 2,000 educators in [...]
• Union to Put Patients Lives in Danger from Mar. 24-28—They Will Strike If Extortion Not Paid
    UC patient care technical workers plan strike The University of California’s 13,000 patient care technical workers — including 2,900 at UC [...]
• Watts: How Unions and Democrats Steal Local Elections
    How Unions and Democrats Steal Local Elections By William Watts, Treasurer, Patriot PAC, Exclusive to the California Political News and Views, [...]
• San Jose Unified, teachers to ask State Board for waiver from tenure law
    San Jose Unified, teachers to ask State Board for waiver from tenure law By John Fensterwald, EdSource, 3/10/14 In the ongoing trial Vergara vs [...]
• Unions and Customers Lose With Albertsons Purchase of Safeway
    Safeway and Albertsons may need to sell stores to close deal Wendy Lee, KPCC, 3/7/14   Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management plans [...]
• Did Unions Kill Safeway and Customers Desire to Shop at BIG Grocery Stores?
    Safeway sale would transform supermarket industry By Heather Somerville,bayareanewsgroup, 3/6/14 . PLEASANTON — The days of the conventional supermarket are numbered. Safeway’s announcement [...]
• Health Workers’ Union Pushes Hospital Cost Control In California
    Health Workers’ Union Pushes Hospital Cost Control In California By Pauline Bartolone, Capital Public Radio, 3/5/14 SACRAMENTO - A California health [...]
• Unions: Cashing in on Hypocrisy
    Cashing in on Hypocrisy By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 3/4/14 Latest teacher union stunt to discredit charter schools rings hollow. As I have [...]
• Union outlines strategy for reducing government outsourcing
    Union outlines strategy for reducing government outsourcing SEIU’s strategy involves using the bill package by Assemblyman Richard Pan to raise [...]
• Unions to Steal $300 Million From Workers—To Elect Anti-Worker Democrats
    Big Labor, ‘looking for revenge,’ expects to dump $300 million into 2014 elections By M.D. Kittle, Watchdog,org, 2/25/14 Big Labor pledges it [...]
• Democrat Officials Support UC Union Strike—Against Interests of Taxpayers and Students
    Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez stands with UC workers By John Hrabe, Calnewsroom, 2/25/14 While a majority of her colleagues remain silent, one Democrat [...]
• California Farmworker Files Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Governor’s Appointees
    California Farmworker Files Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Governor’s Appointees Let us Vote, 2/21/14 Suit alleges Governor Brown’s appointees and staff engaged [...]
• SEIU: Hire Our Workers /No Need to Pay Minimum Wage in Milwaukee
    SEIU Executives Make Top Dollar Pushing MKE Minimum Wage Hike By: Brian Sikma, Media Trackers, 2/18/14 It is a fascinating dichotomy. An [...]
• 21,000 UC Workers Vote to Strike—Tens of Thousands of Californians Willing to Work Those Jobs Instead
    UC workers vote to go on strike By John Hrabe, Calnewsroom, 2/15/14 More than 21,000 workers at the University of California have voted to [...]
• The Fall of Pacific Grove – Privately Owned Real Property are the Only Assets to Pay for Pensions
    The Fall of Pacific Grove – Privately Owned Real Property are the Only Assets to Pay for Pensions By John Moore, [...]
• Unions Fail to Retain San Diego Mayor’s Office Despite Advantages
    Unions Fail to Retain San Diego Mayor’s Office Despite Advantages By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 2/14/14 Republican City Councilman Kevin Faulconer handily [...]
• Taxpayer Group Pushing to Gut California’s Prop. 13 is Union Front Group
    Taxpayer Group Pushing to Gut California’s Prop. 13 is Union Front Group By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 2/4/14 One lingering success of [...]
• Lawsuit challenges SEIU opt-out rules for state workers
    Lawsuit challenges SEIU opt-out rules for state workers John Myers, KXTV, 2/5/14 If a group of California state workers prevails in federal [...]
• Police Union STEAL One Million $$ Per Year From Los Angeles Taxpayers/City Hall Says OK
    City of LA spends millions of taxpayer dollars on police union activities Alice Walton, KPCC, 2/4/14 The City of Los Angeles is [...]
• Sacramento Democrats Vote to Allow Unions to Hold Citizens Hostage in Transit Strikes
  Transit Strike Ban Fails in Committee By Dave Roberts, Calwatchdog, 2/4/14 California’s Bay Area suffers the third worst traffic congestion in the [...]
• UC Unionized Workers Vote to QUIT (Go on Strike)
    UC workers schedule strike vote By John Hrabe, Calwatchdog, 1/30/14 The University of California system’s largest union, AFSCME 3299, announced last Wednesday that [...]
• Pacific Grove, California: Lies Its Way Into Bankruptcy—Look for Union Label
    The Fall of Pacific Grove – Outsourcing of Safety Services Causes Increased Pension Deficits By John Moore, Union Watch, 1/27/14 How the [...]
• Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Vote to Allow UNIONS to Control Pay Scales—Only Bribe Payers Allowed to Work on Big Projects
    Sonoma County supervisors approve project labor agreement policy By Dan Verel, North Bay Business Journal, 1/28/14 SANTA ROSA — The Sonoma County [...]
• Union Rejects ‘Final’ County Proposal -Will They Quit (Calling it a Strike)?
    Union Rejects ‘Final’ County Proposal By NORBERTO SANTANA JR, Voice of OC, 1/24/14 Nearly every member of the Orange County Employees Association [...]
• Lawsuit challenging teacher tenure, seniority protections goes to court next week
    Lawsuit challenging teacher tenure, seniority protections goes to court next week By John Fensterwald, EdSource, 1/24/13 The trinity of teachers’ rights in [...]
• California State Budget Increases 9%, Includes Raises for Unionized State Workers
    California State Budget Increases 9%, Includes Raises for Unionized State Workers By Jon Coupal, Union Watch, 1/17/14 Shortly after Jerry Brown was [...]
• Unions Virtually Alone in Love with California High-Speed Rail-Any surprise?
    Unions Virtually Alone in Love with California High-Speed Rail By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 1/21/14 Even close observers of the California High-Speed [...]
• New Law: Unions Can Stop Government From Using the Best Vendor
    Law opens government contracts up to union challenges Allen Young, Sacramento Business Journal, 1/22/14 A law goes into effect this month [...]
• Unions Salivating at $250 Million “Education Pathway” Boondoggle
    Schools lining up for piece of $250M ‘career pathways’ fund Karla Scoon Reid, EdSource correspondent, 1/19/14 High school students participate in [...]
• Guv Brown to ADD 1600 Union Bribe Payers to State Payroll—At Taxpayers Expense
    Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget calls for more state workers, less job outsourcing By Jon Ortiz, The Sacramento Bee, 1/19/14 After several years [...]
• Corrupt Los Angeles Union Official Refuses to tell How His Union Spent $40 Million in Tax Dollars
    LA controller, DWP union head to court over financial disclosures Alice Walton, KPCC, 1/20/14 Controller Ron Galperin, center, is joined by Mayor [...]
• Sacramento Democrat Legislators KILL Workers Rights—Over Union Demands
    Democratic lawmakers again kill work flex bill By Dave Roberts, Calwatchdog, 1/17/14 In what has become an annual tradition in Sacramento, [...]
• Union Members Can Never Be Too Thin or Too Rich-Palo Alto “On Strike Shut it Down”?
    City of Palo Alto Faces Strike – $139,907 Average Total Compensation Not Enough By Ed Ring, Union Watch, 1/14/14 “Although the city [...]
• Who said the Democrat Party is not a wholly owned subsidiary of the unions?
    Democrats say no to Calif. ban on transit strikes John Myers, News 10, 1/14/14 Legislation inspired by 2013′s Bay Area subway [...]
• Finally!! Orange County Union Leader to be Charged With ASSAULT for Negotiating Threats
    County Officials to File Assault Complaint Against Union Leader By NORBERTO SANTANA JR., Vocie of OC, 1/12/14 County officials are filing an [...]
• Parking Fee at BART Stations to Go Up: More $$ for Union Payoff
    Price To Park At Some BART Stations Gets Bumped Up by Bay City News, 1/4/14 The cost to park at several BART [...]
• Grimes: Why is California in a Depression—Look at the Union Label Owned Legislature.
    2014 brings new laws regulating CA businesses By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 1/2/14 In 2013, California’s Legislature busied itself passing more than 800 [...]
• Boeing Unionized Machinists Vote Themselves a 10% Raise—Without Boeing Paying an Extra Cent
    51% percent of Machinists vote to accept Boeing proposal International Machinist Union, 1/4/14 SEATTLE – Machinists Union members have voted to accept [...]
• Grimes: California Takes Away Rights From Workers and Farmers—Give ALL Rights to Unions
    Gerawan Farming files constitutional challenge against ALRB By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 1/3/14 Gerawan Farming is fed up. On Dec. 16, Gerawan filed a constitutional challenge against [...]
• The California Teachers Association: A Failure of Leadership
    The California Teachers Association: A Failure of Leadership Marcia Fritz, The Public Sector, 1/2/14 Amidst the debate over pension cuts in Detroit, [...]
• San Diego to Save $700 Million Over 25 Years—Ends Union MOU for Health Care for Retirees
    Appellate court rules health benefits not vested By Daily Transcript, 12/31/13 An appellate court ruled last week that the city of San [...]
• Another Reason California is in a Depression—Unfunded VACATION PAY for Government Employees
    RIVERSIDE COUNTY: Unused leave a growing liability BY JEFF HORSEMAN, Press Enterprise, 12/18/13 Riverside County owed its employees $188.3 million in [...]
• Detailed Look At Rising Sentiment Among Californians for Union Reform
    Detailed Look At Rising Sentiment Among Californians for Union Reform By Mike Shedlock, Union Watch, 12/31/13 In what is decidedly a good [...]
• Grimes: ‘Jailed’ teachers protected by union; other teachers vote to decertify CTA
  ‘Jailed’ teachers protected by union; other teachers vote to decertify CTA By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 12/27/13 November and December proved interesting [...]
• Wal-Mart Blamed for Obama Economic Policies and ObamaCare Caused Cuts
    Fired By Walmart for Christmas Written by Michal Rozworski, City Watch LA, 12/24/13 SEASON MEANING-The holidays are meant to be a [...]
• Union Goon Type Attacks on Private Buses in Bay Area
    More protests over tech employees’ buses Kurtis Alexander, SF Chronicle, 12/20/13 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE Business leaders have said [...]
• Grimes: Union Uses California Agriculture Labor Relations Board to Hold Workers Hostage
    ALRB taking months to resolve UFW decertification vote By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 12/19/13 It took more than one year of doing battle [...]
• Lawsuit threatens teachers unions’ power
    Lawsuit threatens teachers unions’ power By Dave Roberts, Calwatchdog, 12/20/13 “Money is the mother’s milk of politics” — Former Assembly Speaker Jesse ‘Big [...]
• Union Poll: Voters Want to Keep Collapsing Government Pension System
    Poll: Reed’s Pension Measure Unpopular With Voters By Steven Maviglio.Public CEO, 12/19/13 For all the political chatter about pensions, California voters remain strongly [...]
• Union REFUSES to Show How Millions in Tax Money Spent on “Job Training”—Payoff Money?
    Mayor calls for more sunshine at Department of Water and Power Alice Walton, KPCC, 12/17/13 Mayor Eric Garcetti wants an outside consulting [...]
• Teachers Unions Reforming Themselves?
    Teachers Unions Reforming Themselves? By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 12/17/13 Not going to happen. If change comes, it will come from the [...]
• Union—NOT Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Determines Employment Levels—Unions NOW CONTROL the County
    County of Los Angeles Reaches Tentative Deal With Striking Social Workers California County News, 12/16/13 Los Angeles County social workers have returned [...]
• Seiler: Californians turning on unions
    Californians turning on unions By John Seiler, Calwatchdog, 12/13/13 People with too much power are setting themselves up for a fall. In [...]
• BART Starts Raising Fares—to Pay for Union Hostage Deal
    Happy New Year! BART fares to rise 19 cents on average BART fares are going up, but this escalator at [...]
• Union Organizer Lies in San Fran—SOP for Unions
    LIAR EXPOSED: Union Organizer Pretends to be Anti-Union Protester to Push Union Goals -By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum, 12/10/13 It turns [...]
• Unions Use Students to Push Agenda on Los Angeles Unified District Students—Education NOT a Concern
    Have Los Angeles teachers unions gone too far? By Adam O’Neal, Calwatchdog, 12/11/13 The American Federation of Teachers sponsored a “day of [...]
• Nurses plan protest over Dignity Health pension cuts
    Nurses plan protest over Dignity Health pension cuts Angry nurses will hold candlelight rallies Friday to protest what they say is [...]
• Ring: Time for Media Muckrakers to Follow Public Sector Union Money and Motives
    Time for Media Muckrakers to Follow Public Sector Union Money and Motives By Ed Ring, California Public Policy Center,12/10/13 Back in 2011 [...]
• Unions Spending MILLIONS to Take Over Republican Party and Nominees
    Guess Who’s Funding the Republican Civil War? Labor unions. And they’re doing it through a pro-business Republican PAC. By Scott Bland, National [...]
• Senate Republican Leader Proposes Statewide Ban on Public Transit Strikes
    Senate Republican Leader Proposes Statewide Ban on Public Transit Strikes Senator Bob Huff, 13/9/13 Recent BART Strike Shows Public Safety, Economic Risks   San [...]
• SEIU Strikes- Holds Tens of Thousands Los Angeles County Children in Need Hostage—Poor Harmed by Unions Again
    Thousands of LA County Social Workers Strike Over Labor Practices Public CEO, 12/5/13 For the first time in more than a decade, [...]
• Union Admits “Strike Scam”—NO Workers—Just PAID Scammers
    Union members turn up at fast-food wages rally, not workers Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 12/5/13 Employee walkouts were planned at [...]
• SEIU May File Lawsuit Instead of Holding San Fran Hostage
    BART unions explore potential lawsuit in contract debate by Jessica Kwong, SF Examiner, 12/2/13 BART’s two major unions are “actively pursuing” [...]
• How Unions and Bankers Work Together to Protect Unsustainable Defined Benefits
    How Unions and Bankers Work Together to Protect Unsustainable Defined Benefits By Ed Ring, Union Watch, 11/26/13 One of the biggest unreported, [...]
• Will California Union Officials Get to Discuss Project Labor Agreements in Closed Session?
    Will California Union Officials Get to Discuss Project Labor Agreements in Closed Session? By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 11/26/13 A September 17, [...]
• Critics: Walmart Protests Lack Actual Walmart Employees
    Critics: Walmart Protests Lack Actual Walmart Employees Vast majority of those taking part in Black Friday protests paid activists BY: Bill McMorris, [...]
• SF, union file legal challenges to block removal of CCSF accreditation
    SF, union file legal challenges to block removal of CCSF accreditation by Jonah Owen Lamb, SF Examiner, 11/26/13 The City is [...]
• SEIU to Hold Airport Hungry Airport Travelers in Oakland Hostage for Thanksgiving
    Oakland Airport food workers plan Thanksgiving holiday strike Renée Frojo, San Francisco Business Times, 11/25/13 As the holiday seasons kicks off this [...]
• Labor Union Gives $150,000 to GOP PAC Dedicated to Defeating Conservatives—Plan is to Divide GOP
    Labor Union PAC Gives $150K to Republican Business-Oriented Super PAC By Kent Cooper, Roll Call, 11/25/13 The political action committee (PAC) of [...]
• Obama Turnover of General Motors to Unions will Cost taxpayers at Least $10 Billion
    GM Stock Would Have to Increase Tenfold for Government to Recoup Money Unless price increases to levels of Amazon, government will [...]
• When Given an Honest Choice: Workers Say NO to Two Wisconsin Unions (Yes to Three Others)
    Two state unions lose recertification votes By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel, 11/21/13 Madison — Two unions lost elections Thursday to [...]
• City of Redondo Beach Union Demands Right to Determine Their Boss
    Employee Unions: We Have No Confidence in City Manager Redondo Beach employees present the results of a vote of no confidence [...]
• Unions the Number One Cause of Governments Going Bankrupt
    Proposal: A Fair Public Union Pension Settlement By Mike Shedlock, Mishs Economic Global Trends, 11/20/13 Numerous cities have filed for bankruptcy in [...]
• UC critical-care workers strike goes to court-21,000 strike against sick patients anyway
    UC critical-care workers strike goes to court The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local No. 3299 has called [...]
• UC Gives Union Nurses 16% Pay Raise- Exchange for “No Strike Pledge” and 1% Added to Pension Payments—Union Threats Work
    What’s Going on in the UC Office of the President Daily Nexus, 11/18/13 A member of AFSCME 3299 pickets for fair wages [...]
• LAUSD Teachers Act Like Street Corner Hucksters—They Teach Our Kids?
    “Hey, Deasy, baby, I want my money.” By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 11/19/13 Los Angeles teachers demand a raise, but their [...]
• Professors at San Jose State Want to Slow Down Online Learning—Prefer 19th Century Style Education
    Rifts in the Valley By Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 11/19/13 Faculty at San Jose State University on Monday rebuked their administration’s [...]
• Bankrupt Detroit: Could Cut CURRENT Retirement Payments by 84%-Lesson for California Unions
    Detroit Will Slash Retiree Pensions, Law Nothwithstanding and Unions Standing Around by burypensions, 11/18/13 Scott Walker’s book comes out tomorrow in which, it [...]
• SEIU Threatening to Take Hostages Again in Bay Area BART Contract Controversy
    ‘Error’ could halt BART agreement by Chris Roberts, SF Examiner, 11/15/13 BART management made an “error” in signing off on the [...]
• Unions Forced to Reduce Pensions of Retirees—Will Public Pension Plans Also Cut Benefits of Those Already Receiving Them?
    Retired union workers facing ‘unprecedented’ pension cuts By Melanie Hicken, CNN Money, 11/15/13 Hundreds of thousands of retired union workers are facing [...]
• Unions Used Illegal Tracking Devices to Set Up Costa Mesa City Council Members—Why Isn’t Union De-Certified?
    Firm Hired by Union Used GPS to Track City Officials, According to Lawsuit Public CEO, 11/15/13 According to court documents, political opponents [...]
• Unions Still Control Stockton—Watch It Go Back Into Bankruptcy
    Citizens group unhappy with city dealings By Scott Smith, Record, 11/13/13 STOCKTON - Members of a citizens commission created earlier this [...]
• SEIU—the Hostage Taking Union—Now Has Hospital CEO’s In Their Sights
    Union seeks to cut hospital CEO pay, prices Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 11/12/13 A crack in the unlikely alliance between [...]
• AFL-CIO Aids Day Laborer Center Campaign to Block Deportations-Union Supports Criminal Action
    AFL-CIO Aids Day Laborer Center Campaign to Block Deportations Submitted by Carl Horowitz, NLPC, 10/29/13 Organized labor doesn’t waste too many opportunities [...]
• SEIU Strikers Get 16% Raise-BART to Cut Back Service Hours to Pay for Strike Contract
    BART: New safety procedures could mean shorter system operating hours By Matthias Gafni, Contra Costa Times, 11/7/13 SAN FRANCISCO — Deflecting a [...]
• Farmworkers union admits women were not ‘held hostage,’ ‘locked inside’
    Farmworkers union admits women were not ‘held hostage,’ ‘locked inside’ BY LAURA LIERA AND CHRISTINE BEDELL, Californian, 11/8/13 The United Farm Workers [...]
• Unions Kill Boeing in Long Beach—THEY Prefer Washington State (no income tax)
    Boeing’s plan to build 777X airliner in Washington a blow to Southern California By Muhammed El-Hasan, Daily Breeze, 11/7/13 Southern California’s aerospace [...]
• Phony University of California “Institute” (RUN by the Unions) Provides “Study” to Raise Wages in Washington State City to $15 per Hour.
    University of California Releases SEIU-Funded Report Justifying SeaTac Wage Measure By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 11/5/13 Someday a member of the Board [...]
• Wal-Mart Employees in Paramount go on Strike
    Wal-Mart employees in Paramount go on strike By Andrew Edwards, Press-Telegram, 11/6/13 PARAMOUNT>> Wal-Mart workers at the retail chain’s store here are [...]
• SEIU Trying to Take Over COLLEGE Classrooms—More Strikes/Less Education
    Adjuncts Launch Union Bids at 2 Southern California Colleges Inside Higher Ed, 11/5/13 Adjuncts at Whittier College and the University of [...]
• ALRB Finally Allows Workers to Vote to End Their OWNERSHIP by Union—Like Slaves
    ALRB authorizes Gerawan worker UFW election The Business Journal, 10/31/13 The Agricultural Labor Relations Board has authorized an election to determine [...]
• Government in Cahoots With Unions Not Allowing Elections to Stop Extortion
    ALRB forcing unionization on farm workers By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 10/29/13 SACRAMENTO — Thousands of farm workers in the Central Valley object [...]
• Do Students Deserve Quality Teachers, Not Just Union Dues Payers in the Classroom? Lawsuit to Decide
    Pending lawsuit, if successful, could precipitate monumental changes | By Seth Rosenblatt, EdSource, 10/28/13 With all of the discussion around the Local Control [...]
• BART Strike is a Teachable Moment
    BART Strike is a Teachable Moment By Ed Ring, Union Watch, 10/22/13 Reactions from the press and public to the BART strikes [...]
• SEIU has NEW Victim (After BART): Wants to Hold Los Angeles County Government Hostage
    SEIU Members To Begin Vote On Strike Authorization California County News, 10/23/13 Members of The Service Employees International Union Local 721, which [...]
• Union Wants More Money From Bankrupt Stockton—Even if Money Does Not Exist
    Jail officers union sues S.J. over contract By Jennie Rodriguez-Moore, Stockton Record, 10/23/13 STOCKTON - The union representing correctional officers at [...]
• Strike bans may push binding arbitration-Critics see union ploy in post-BART proposals
    Strike bans may push binding arbitration Critics see union ploy in post-BART proposals By Steven Greenhut, San Diego U-T, 10/22/13 SACRAMENTO — The [...]
• What Recovery? SEIU Threatens Lawsuits/Complaints to Kill APPLE in California—Workers NOT Paying Bribes to Union
    Union Threatens to Block Apple, Inc. “Spaceship” with Environmental Lawsuit By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 10/19/13 Perhaps the Service Employees International Union-United [...]
• End BART Strike—Let Robots Run the Trains—They do in Copenhagen and London
    List of driverless trains From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The London Underground Victoria Line, which opened in 1967, can be considered the [...]
• BART Transit Strike Begins in San Francisco Bay Area
    BART Transit Strike Begins in San Francisco Bay Area By Mike Shedlock, Union Watch, 10/18/13 Editor’s Note: UnionWatch contributor Mike Shedlock provides [...]
• Los Angeles Union REFUSES to Allow Public Agency Audit to be Made Public
  Eric Garcetti Loses A Round in Cage Match with DWP Union Boss By Gene Maddaus, LA Weekly, 10/17/13 TO SEE COMPLETE ARTICLE [...]
• For BART Unions, Strike Threat Proved Two-Edged Sword
    For BART Unions, Strike Threat Proved Two-Edged Sword by Randy Shaw‚ Beyond Chron, 10/17/13 BART unions have long seen the strike as [...]
• Fresno County Law Enforcement Trying to Break Away From Law Breaking SEIU
    Fresno County Jail officers try again to break away from SEIU By John Ellis,The Fresno Bee,10/17/13 Correctional officers who work in the [...]
• Brown approves prevailing wage for charter cities-takes away rights from city governments
    Brown approves prevailing wage for charter cities Capitol Weekly, 10/13/13 In a major victory for organized labor, Gov. Brown signed into law [...]
• Grimes: Do union activists work for Gov. Brown, farm board?
    Do union activists work for Gov. Brown, farm board? By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 10/14/13 SACRAMENTO — The revolving door among political consultants, [...]
• Editorial by Stephen Frank: The Real SEIU That Gave Money to the California Republican Party
    The Real SEIU That Gave Money to the California Republican Party Editorial by Stephen Frank, 10/14/13 At the just completed convention [...]
• Big Labor Propagandists Scorch Nissan For Telling Mississippi Employees the Truth About UAW Union Bosses’ Record of Job Destruction
    Big Labor Propagandists Scorch Nissan For Telling Mississippi Employees the Truth About UAW Union Bosses’ Record of Job Destruction By Stan [...]
• Watsonville City Council: Want City Project Work? Pay Bribes
        Projects over $600,000 to require union agreement By Donna Jones, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 10/8/13 WATSONVILLE — Watsonville will be the first city [...]
• Stop forcing teachers to join unions
    Stop forcing teachers to join unions By Rebecca Friedrichs, Union Watch, 10/9/13 My students and I begin each morning reciting the Pledge [...]
• Big Labor blocking workers from using new right-to-work laws
    Big Labor blocking workers from using new right-to-work laws BY: Sean Higgins, Washington Examiner, 10/6/13 UPS worker Gary Frost has sued the [...]
• Fast Food Workers Win a Union…through Zoolidarity
    Fast Food Workers Win a Union…through Zoolidarity by Shamus Cooke‚ Beyond Chron, 10/8/13 Union members have watched in awe as fast food [...]
• Transit workers’ pensions resolved — for now-Families taxpayers sold out for union donations
    Transit workers’ pensions resolved — for now By John Howard, Capitol Weekly, 10/08/13 Gov. Brown’s signing of legislation to temporarily exempt some 20,000 [...]
• Orange County Sue to Use Constitution Freedom of Association—Union Steals From Paychecks
      California teacher insists forced union membership for educators is wrong By Victor Skinner, EAGnews.org, 10/7/13 LOS ANGELES – Orange County educator Rebecca [...]
• Special Exemptions: How Unions Operate Above the Law
    Special Exemptions: How Unions Operate Above the Law By Kevin Mooney, Union Watch, 10/3/13 Summary: At the moment, labor bosses are demanding [...]
• Union Greed Threatens California’s Economy
    Union Greed Threatens California’s Economy We cannot tolerate this unholy collusion between government and organized labor by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, Politix, 9/30/13 As [...]
• SEIU Strongly Supports Theft of Mortgages From Banks—Socialize Homeownership!
    Calpers concerned about Richmond, California’s mortgage plan By Jim Christie, Reuters, 9/30/13 As Richmond, California, moves forward with a plan to help [...]
• BART Goes to Ohio to Hire $3400 A DAY Attorney in Strike negotiations—Found NO Qualified Attorneys in Bay Area!
    Ohio transit attorney eating through BART tab for ongoing labor negotiations by Chris Roberts, SF Examiner, 10/1/13 BART has paid about [...]
• SEIU vows to help promote Obamacare
    SEIU vows to help promote Obamacare By SEAN HIGGINS, 9/11/13 Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry has announced that her [...]
• LA County: Unions Want Higher Pay—Not Fixing of Roads or More Law Enforcement From New/Higher Taxes
    LA County Workers Rally for Higher Pay California County News, 9/30/13 LA County labor organizers are urging their members to participate in [...]
• SEIU Leader Boasts His Union Has Illegal Immigrant Members…
    SEIU Leader Boasts His Union Has Illegal Immigrant Members… With Obama in office, they have nothing to fear from openly violating [...]
• SEIU unionists strike over Obamacare-related cuts
    SEIU unionists strike over Obamacare-related cuts By SEAN HIGGINS, Washington Examiner, 9/27/13 Members of the Columbus, Ohio-based Service Employees International Union Local [...]
• Union members balk at outsourcing work at L.A.-owned garages
    Union members balk at outsourcing work at L.A.-owned garages By Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Daily News, 9/25/13 Drawing union opposition, Los Angeles [...]
• Ralphs worker cites union pressure-union STEALS From Teenager
  Ralphs worker cites union pressure By Jonathan Horn, San Diego U-T, 9/21/13 Saturday September, 17th 2011 Hillcrest, CA USA - [...]
• Hospital Threaten With legal Action for Telling Workers Refusing to Work They Could be Fired.
    UC medical workers allege unfair labor practice KPCC, 9/17/13 File: Health workers at University of California medical centers began a two-day [...]
• Grimes: Don’t tell Mom the babysitter’s unionized
    Don’t tell Mom the babysitter’s unionized By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 9/18/13 If Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has his way, your babysitter soon [...]
• Fresno Farm Workers Smarter Than Professional Educators—Willing to Stand Up to Bullies
    Fresno County farming company employees seek to vote out union By Robert Rodriguez, The Fresno Bee, 9/20/13 Workers at Gerawan Farming have [...]
• Grimes: Finally Unions Support Members Principles on Second Amendment
    Labor and trade unions oppose CA lead ammo ban By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 9/19/13 A controversial bill to ban traditional lead ammunition [...]
• BART Union Wants Three Year-13% Pay Raise—Who Will Pay This?
    BART unions make concessions; management says it’s not enough Eric Young, San Francisco Business Times, 9/19/13 BART’s unions said they [...]
• Nurses “Union” working hard to Smear Kaiser Permanente Reputation as Negotiating Tool
    CNA nurses’ union girds for battle with Kaiser Permanente Chris Rauber, San Francisco Business Times, 9/18/13 The California Nurses Association, already [...]
• Teachers can receive a $300 – $400 ‘rebate’ for CTA’s political spending
    Teachers can receive a $300 – $400 ‘rebate’ for CTA’s political spending By Larry Sand and Ed Ring, Union Watch, 9/17/13 Although [...]
• When Teachers are ALLOWED to vote—They Vote NO to Unions
    Teachers of Third-Largest Wisconsin School District Vote to Decertify Union   by Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum/Breitbart, 9/15/13 Teachers in Kenosha, Wisconsin have [...]
• Will Unions Allow People of Color—That Don’t Pay Bribes—To Build L.A. Rail System
    South Los Angeles construction workers, advocates scope out jobs on Metro’s upcoming Crenshaw/LAX light rail project Corey Moore, KPCC, 9/16/13 A new [...]
• Blue-collar laborers rebel at AFL-CIO’s embrace of anti-job progressives
    Blue-collar laborers rebel at AFL-CIO’s embrace of progressives By Cheryl K. Chumley, The Washington Times, 9/10/13 The AFL-CIO needs to stick with [...]
• Union/BART Start Negotiations 30 Days Before New Strike—30 Days After They Were to Start
    BART strike again? Negotiations resume halfway into 60-day cooling off By Mike Rosenberg, Oakland Tribune, 9/9/13 Bay Area commuters who feel like [...]
• Unions Bully and Steals From Teenager—Part Time Grocery Clerk
    Grocery Union Faces Federal Charges for Violating Teenage Ralphs Grocery Clerk’s Workplace Rights Union officials threaten teenage worker with job [...]
• Why is California in a Depression? Unions Add 100,000 members in State in Past Year—Nationally Unions Lose 500,000
    Hundreds of labor leaders and supporters look to the future at AFL-CIO convention in LA Wendy Lee, KPCC, 9/8/13 Fast food worker [...]
• LAUSD Union, UTLA, Upset Bad Teachers and Trouble Maker Reassigned
    LAUSD hit with unfair labor practice charges by 12 teachers By Barbara Jones, Los Angeles Daily News, 9/5/13 The teachers union filed [...]
• Union KILLS Hundreds of Jobs and Costs Consumers Thousands in Higher Prices
    Judge Halts Walmart’s Burbank Plans by Frying Pan Staff, Frying Pan News, 9/5/13 Retail giant Walmart suffered a setback in Los Angeles [...]
• Union seeks to block Kaiser from health benefit exchange-payback
    Union seeks to block Kaiser from health benefit exchange Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 9/5/13 The National Union of Healthcare Workers filed [...]
• Detailed List of Union Environmental Lawsuits to Kill California Jobs-23 So Far THIS Year
    Revised List of Union Actions in 2013 Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 9/3/13 California [...]
• Citing Obamacare/Illegal Aliens, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO
    Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO by Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart, 9/2/13 In what is being reported as a surprise move, [...]
• Caldwell: “Danger” AB 556 Worse Bill of the Week—The Scarlet Letter for Being Free
    Danger Andy Caldwell, Santa Barbara News-Press, 9/1/13 The California Legislature is trying to save us from the dangers associated with contractors. SB [...]
• Nationwide Fast-Food Strike Set for Aug. 29
    Nationwide Fast-Food Strike Set for Aug. 29 by Mike Hall, AFL-CIO‚ 8/28/13 The growing movement for a living wage and justice for [...]
• BART Negotiations Not Serious—taking THREE Weeks Off
    BART negotiations taking month off, limiting timeline for deal by Chris Roberts, SF Examiner, 8/28/13 BART and its unions will have only [...]
• Something is Bothering California Union Leaders and Lobbyists
    Something is Bothering California Union Leaders and Lobbyists By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 8/27/13 Something is bothering union leaders and lobbyists in [...]
• Union Bought Los Angeles City Council. Purchase Price was $6 Million
    $6,000,000 Buys LA’s City Council by Jack Humphreville, City Watch LA, 8/27/13 LA WATCHDOG - Over the last decade, campaign funding IBEW Union [...]
• Who Benefits from Collective Bargaining in Education?
    Who Benefits from Collective Bargaining in Education? By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 8/27/13 Union bosses do — at the expense of good [...]
• Unions Upset With Public Knowing How Public Pension Money is Being Spent
    California’s Public Sector Union Pension Secrecy Lobby By Steven Greenhut, Union Watch, 8/26/13 Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) [...]
• CA teachers sue union over political use of dues
    CA teachers sue union over political use of dues By Joseph Perkin, Calwatchdog, 8/26/13 Monday marks the start of a [...]
• Daniel Borenstein: Strike ban to solve BART dispute presents great risks
  Daniel Borenstein: Strike ban to solve BART dispute presents great risks By Daniel Borenstein, Oakland Tribune, 8/23/13 As the BART [...]
• Grimes: SB 776 bumping off prevailing wage compliance
    SB 776 bumping off prevailing wage compliance By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 8/23/13 A big labor union in the state wrote a bill [...]
• Unions to Strike McDonalds in Los Angeles—Watch Teen Unemployment Grow
    Fast-food worker strikes coming to Los Angeles; higher wages sought Los Angeles fast-food workers, backed by SEIU and local groups, plan [...]
• Lusty Lady, world’s only unionized gentleman’s club, closing San Francisco doors in 2 weeks
    Lusty Lady, world’s only unionized gentleman’s club, closing San Francisco doors in 2 weeks by Erin Sherbert, SF Examiner, 8/21/13 The venerable [...]
• Farm Owner Reminds Workers They DO NOT Have to Pay Bribes to Work—State File Charges for Telling Truth
    Central Valley fruit packer hit with unfair labor complaint Central Valley Business Times, 8/20/13 • Gerawan Farming accused of trying to [...]
• Obama Withholds $500 Million—So Far—From CA—to Bully state on behalf of Unions
    Union Dispute Costing California Hundreds of Millions Department of Labor backing Obama union allies in dispute with state BY: Bill McMorris, Washington [...]
• Union Wants to Add $375 Million to Los Angeles Water Bill—to Pay for Pensions
    City Council’s Push to Seal DWP Union Deal Prompts Emergency Meeting for NCs Jack Humphreville, city Watch LA, 8/18/13 WHY AN [...]
• Unions Demand Control of Budget for California Courts-or Else?
    Court Budget Meeting Trailed by Complaints From Labor Unions By MARIA DINZEO, Courtroom News, 8/15/13         SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A budget meeting [...]
• Grimes: We Need a BART Strike—Folks Need To SEE Unions Strangle Us
    BART strike would provide needed clarity on compensation, union power By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 8/14/13 If I was an advisor to Gov. [...]
• AFL-CIO tries to regroup as American support for unions declines
    AFL-CIO tries to regroup as American support for unions declines By Doug McKelway, Fox News, 8/14/13 It was an unexpected and blunt [...]
• Sacramento emergency workers vote to join rival union
    Sacramento emergency workers vote to join rival union Forschen, with First Responder, said they weren’t “making advancements with NEMSA.” They’d made [...]
• Union Environmental Appeal of San Jose Infill High-Rise Fools No One-More Union Blackmail
    Union Environmental Appeal of San Jose Infill High-Rise Fools No One By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 8/13/13 Tuesday, August 13, 2013 construction [...]
• Hayward city workers begin three-day strike-union tells city pay up or else
    Hayward city workers begin three-day strike By Rebecca Parr, The Daily Review, 8/13/13 HAYWARD — More than 200 municipal workers began a [...]
• LA DWP contract talks will come out from behind closed doors-Union Bullying to be made Public
    DWP contract talks will come out from behind closed doors Alice Walton, KPCC, 8/8/13 L.A. City Council President Herb Wesson sent a [...]
• Democrats Taking Stand AGAINST BART Union Strikers—Need to End Union Monopoly Instead
    Even Democratic pols avoid solidarity with BART workers By Steven Greenhut, San Diego U-T, 8/7/13 Gov. Jerry Brown has temporarily halted a [...]
• BART Strike Held Up for 7 Days—AC Transit (174,000 riders per day) to Strike Bay Area on Wednesday
    AC Transit workers may strike as soon as Wednesday Eric Young, San Francisco Business Times, 8/5/13 AC Transit workers may strike [...]
• Real Reason Unions HATE Wal Mart—Walton Foundation Financing Challenge to Union Controlled Schools
    Communities use parent-trigger laws to take over failing schools By Beau Yarbrough, Inland Bulletin, 8/4/13 LOS ANGELES - As the 2013-14 school [...]
• Labor union ‘raids’ on rise as rivals seek to boost membership, clout
    Labor union ‘raids’ on rise as rivals seek to boost membership, clout In the face of a steadily declining labor movement, [...]
• Labor use womens money to continue to back serial sexual harasser Filner
    Labor continues to back Filner By Mark Walker, San Diego U-T, 8/3/13 One day before Mayor Bob Filner begins a self-imposed, two-week [...]
• Monday BART Union Workers Quit, Again-Call it a Strike
    Unions may issue 72-hour notice to strike if no progress is made in BART negotiations By Mike Rosenberg, San Jose Mercury [...]
• Federal Workers Got $155M in Tax Dollars to Work for Labor Unions
    Federal Workers Got $155M in Tax Dollars to Work for Labor Unions By Alissa Tabirian, CNSNews, 7/30/13 Federal employees were paid more [...]
• San Diego City Council: We Need to Payoff the Unions—With Tax $$
    After 33 Years, San Diego Submits to State Prevailing Wage Law By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 7/30/13 This afternoon (Tuesday, July [...]
• Labor Unions Stop Traffic—Vandalize Westwood (UCLA)
    Dozens arrested near UCLA following labor protests KPCC staff, 7/26/13 Hundreds of University of California workers gathered to protest near UCLA on Friday as part [...]
• What Recovery? Unions Claim Ownership of Capitol and State Government
    Taxpayer-Funded Big Labor: California Government is “our house” By NRTW Committee Staff, 7/25/13 Big Labor is so used to getting everything they [...]
• Kaiser imposing takeaways on NUHW optical workers-helps SEIU to harm workers
    Kaiser imposing takeaways on NUHW optical workers National Union of Healthcare Workers vice president John Borsos said the union is “holding [...]
• Unions Using Legislature Trying to Cut Kaiser—Purpose? Negotiations for Contracts
    CA legislators put Kaiser under microscope By Paayal Zaveri, Calwatchdog, 7/24/13 SACRAMENTO — When the Legislature returns from its July recess, [...]
• BART strike: Rail line’s employee costs soar even as pay remains flat
    BART strike: Rail line’s employee costs soar even as pay remains flat By Mike Rosenberg, San Jose Mercury News, 7/23/13 TO SEE [...]
• Exponential Technological Advances and the Role of Unions
    Exponential Technological Advances and the Role of Unions By Editor, Union Watch, 7/23/13 Robots will steal your job, but that’s ok.” Federico [...]
• WORST BILL OF THE WEEK: SB 556—Forces Gov’t Contract Workers to Wear a Label, “Not a Government Employee”
    Our View: Bill would brand private contractors with scarlet letter The Merced Sun, 7/19/13 Senate Bill 556 is another sad example of [...]
• El Monte Sales tax Increase to Go to Union Agreement—NOT Community Needs
    El Monte will ask residents, voters to extend half-cent tax Voters to decide in November By Claudia S. Palma, SGVN, 7/17/13 EL MONTE [...]
• Were council secrets leaked to union boss?
    Were council secrets leaked to union boss? By U-T San Diego Editorial Board, 7/16/13 The sexual harassment scandal involving San Diego Mayor [...]
• Unions: Obamacare Will Shatter Backbone of Middle Class
    Unions: Obamacare Will Shatter Backbone of Middle Class By Meghan Foley, Wall Street Cheat Sheet, 7/17/13 The Affordable Care Act now has [...]
• SEIU Leader Willing to Kill Off Bay Area Economy—As he Killed Off Southern Textile Plants—Forcing Jobs to Other Nations
    Union leader says he won’t back down to BART By Matthew Artz, Oakland Tribune, 7/16/13 OAKLAND — Pete Castelli knows there are [...]
• Unions/San Diego former Mayor Jerry Sanders Conspire Against San Diego Citizens—STEAL Tax Dollars in Secret
    Records suggest city-union dealings Group suing for documents says they show backchannel communications By Christopher Cadelago and Lori Weisberg, San Diego U-T, [...]
• Wanted: A Labor Movement for the Young
      Wanted: A Labor Movement for the Young by Rebecca Band‚ Beyond Chron, 7/12/13 You’ve probably heard it from a colleague, or maybe [...]
• Union Bo$$ d’Arcy Fiddles Away Fiduciary Duty-People of Los Angeles Pay
    Union Bo$$ d’Arcy Fiddles Away Fiduciary Duty Written by Jack Humphreville , City Watch LA, 7/12/13 LA WATCHDOG - You know that the [...]
• Silicon Valley’s Anti-Unionism, Now With a Side of Class Warfare
    Silicon Valley’s Anti-Unionism, Now With a Side of Class Warfare By Kevin Roose, NY Magazine, 7/12/13 Since BART workers went on [...]
• Unions Blackmail Bay Area Resident: Give Us Your $$ or We Will Strike Again
    Second BART strike looms as labor talks resume and workers lash out at management By Mike Rosenberg Oakland Tribune, 7/11/13 OAKLAND — [...]
• A lawsuit in California could spell the end of union collective-bargaining fees
    Opportunity Knox A lawsuit in California could spell the end of union collective-bargaining fees Larry Sand, City Journal, 7/11/13 http://city-journal.org/2013/cjc0711ls.html If the [...]
• Unions and Corporations Collude to Force Workers to Pay Bribes
    Washington Times: End the Illegal Collusion By NRTWC Staff, 7/9/13 The Washington Times agrees with us that collusion between management and Big Labor is [...]
• Will the Media Ever Report on the Political Agenda of the SEIU?
    Will the Media Ever Report on the Political Agenda of the SEIU? By Dave Bego, Union Watch, 7/3/13 Once again the SEIU [...]
• Unions KILLED 15,000 Union Jobs—Twinkies Hires Those That Don’t Pay Bribes to Work
    New Twinkies owner does away with unions, seven factories Twinkies will return to shelves soon. Staff Sacramento Business Journal, 7/9/13 In the wake [...]
• Unions Use Legislature to Stop Retailers Where Workers Do NOT Pay Tribute (Bribes) to Unions
    Locals, labor square off over superstores By Capitol Weekly, 7/7/13 An effort is under way in the Capitol to require local governments [...]
• BART Union: Give us What We Want—Or Else In Thirty Days We Strike Again
    BART Strike Update: Unions Returning to Work as Talks Continue; Trains Will Roll Today Posted by Dan Brekke, KQED, 7/5/13 BART management, [...]
• Federal Taxpayers Funding 201 “IRS” employees to work FULL TIME for Extortionist Unions
    Coburn, Gingrey demand answers on 201 full-time IRS union reps Patrick Howley, Daily Caller, 7/4/13 Republican congressional leaders are demanding to know [...]
• Grimes: Anti-Union United Farm Workers Given Gift of Thousands of members (bribe payers) by Sacramento Democrats==SB 25
    Steinberg bill would triple size of UFW By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 7/3/13 SACRAMENTO — If a labor union-friendly bill currently working through [...]
• Teachers “Dues” (Bribes) Used by Union to Denounce Second Amendment Supporters Outside AND Inside Classroom
    Teachers union vice president: Supporters of gun rights ‘going to hell’ By: Joe Newby, Examiner, 6/24/13 While speaking to liberal activists at [...]
• BART Union Strike: Causing Pollution of Bay Area Air—Union Anti-Environmentalist?
    BART strike having unintended consequence of adding air pollution by Chris Roberts, SF Examiner, 7/3/13 The BART strike has naturally put more [...]
• Even Media Union Supporters Admit BART Union Stealing From Public—Reporter Admits Bias
    Are BART workers taking us for a ride? A look at the numbers The BART strike calls into question what a [...]
• Union Extortion of Workers and Community College District Stopped—by Citizen Action
    Public ‘onslaught’ stopped union PLA bid By John Hrabe, Calwatchdog, 7/1/13 If you’re jaded about politics and question whether elected officials listen [...]
• Editorial by Stephen Frank: Heat Gets to Bay Area Unions—Strike Crazy As If We Were Not in a California Depression
    Editorial by Stephen Frank: Heat Gets to Bay Area Unions—Strike Crazy As If We Were Not in a California Depression Stephen [...]
• Oakland Union Strikers: Give us your $$-or we will close the city down
    Oakland faces strike on same day as BART Steven E.F. Brown, San Fran Business Times, 6/28/13 If you were thinking of telecommuting [...]
• Union Blackmails Bay Area Public for July 4th: Give us What we Want or We CLOSE Down Your Parks
    East Bay Regional Park strike threatened for July 4 and 5 By Denis Cuff,Contra Costa Times, 6/28/13 East Bay Regional Park District [...]
• BART: Bay Area Unions Extortion, ur, Strike, Starts Monday
    BART unions give 72-hour notice of a strike for Monday By Mike Rosenberg, San Jose Mercury News 6/28/13 The potential for chaotic [...]
• So Cal Edison Fires 600 NON UNION Employees—Will Negotiate With Unions to See if Bribe Payers Can be Fired
    Edison Plans 600 Lay-Offs By Deborah Crowe, Los Angeles Business Journal, 6/26/13 Southern California Edison on Wednesday announced plans to eliminate 600 [...]
• Union Blackmails Bay Area: Give us More $$ or We Stop Government Transportation
    BART strike vote set for Tuesday as agency begins planning for potential shutdown By Mike Rosenberg and Brittny Mejia, San Jose [...]
• Grimes: UFW strong-arms its own employees -doesn’t allow THEM to join a union
    UFW strong-arms its own employees By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 6/24/13 What would Cesar Chavez say? The iconic co-founder of the United Farm [...]
• Unions Tell Public BART Trains NOT Safe: Strike Vote Next Week
    BART employees might vote next week to strike by Bay City News, 6/23/13 BART workers say they are worried about safety issues, [...]
• Business Owners Might be FORCED by Government to Hire Bribe Payers—Not the Best Workers
    Honda Center Might Be Forced to Keep Workers It Fired By NICK GERDA, voiceofoc, 6/22/13 The state Legislature has adopted language that [...]
• San Diego City Council Mulls Prevailing Wage Ordinance -Wants to Payoff Unions
    City Council Mulls Prevailing Wage Ordinance       San Diego News Room, 6/19/13 A proposal to require contractors on most city of San Diego [...]
• Kaiser-Permenante Caught BRIBING Employees to Support SEIU Over Another Union
    Union can sue Kaiser over SEIU worker pay Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle, 6/15/13 TO SEE THE COMPLETE ARTICLE CLICK ON THE BLUE [...]
• Extortionist Union costing millions in federal funding for San Fran Housing
    S.F. Housing Authority labor disagreement is costing millions in federal funding by Chris Roberts, SF Examiner, 6/14/13 A standstill between powerful [...]
• While the Rest of Us Toil, Government Workers Get ‘Official Time”-Do Union Work on Taxpayers Dime
    While the Rest of Us Toil, Government Workers Get ‘Official Time” By Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Real Clear Markets, 6/11/13 WASHINGTON-With a backlog of [...]
• How does the firefighters’ union feather its nest?
    How does the firefighters’ union feather its nest?EDC, 6/11/13 The Firefighters’ Union feathers its nest by recruiting, campaigning for and getting [...]
• Judicial Council of California Imposes Project Labor Agreement on San Diego Courthouse: Judges Promote Blackmail, Extortion and Bribes
    Judicial Council of California Imposes Project Labor Agreement on San Diego Courthouse By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 6/8/13 Excerpts from four documents [...]
• Why California Taxpayers Should Support the Wal-Mart Strikers -by shopping at Wal Mart
      Why California Taxpayers Should Support the Wal-Mart Strikers by John Logan‚ Beyond chron, 6/6/13 Last week, non-union Wal-Mart employees began the first [...]
• CA Supreme Court: Unions Can STEAL From Non Union Workers—and Receive PERSONAL Information on NON Bribe Payers
    California Supreme Court Violates Basic Constitutional Rights By NRTWC Staff, 6/5/13 Sean Higgins looks at an outrageous decision by the California Supreme [...]
• Oakland unions threaten to strike-will anyone care or notice?
    Oakland unions threaten to strike By Matthew Artz, Oakland Tribune, 6/4/13 OAKLAND — The city’s two largest civilian unions say Oakland leaders [...]
• Reforming Public Sector Unions and Public Sector Pensions is NOT “Anti-Worker”
    Reforming Public Sector Unions and Public Sector Pensions is NOT “Anti-Worker” By Editor, Union Watch, 5/28/13 An incoming email responding to last [...]
• Teachers Unions Play Balkanization
    Teachers Unions Play Balkanization By Larry Sand, Union Watch, 5/28/13 CTA and NEA embrace Progressivism, indulge in identity politics and celebrate [...]
• Spread the Word: Brazen Union CEQA Abuse in Napa Valley
    Spread the Word: Brazen Union CEQA Abuse in Napa Valley By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 5/28/13 Throughout California, unions routinely use [...]
• Central Valley may lose bus services due to UNIONS efforts!!!
    Central Valley may lose bus services Central Valley Business Times, 5/27/13 • Transit union seeking cut of all federal funding • [...]
• 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
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• 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
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• 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?
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• 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 $$ Stolen From Workers to Promote Higher Taxes and Hate of Jews
    Look for the Union Label … at the World Social Forum AFL-CIO to attend anti-Israel, anti-capitalism forum BY: Lachlan Markay, Washington Free [...]
• WORSE BILL OF THE DAY: Democrat Wants UNIONS to Approve Personal Service Contract With State—NOT the State.
          LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST Assemblyman Richard Pan, 2/22/13   AB 906, as introduced, Pan. Personal services contracts: independent contractors. The State Civil Service Act authorizes [...]
• Unions Use CEQA to Kill Jobs for Union Members and Create Higher Cost Energy for All
    Opponents of CEQA Reform Cite New Study with Union Connections By Kevin Dayton, Union Watch, 3/12/13 A broad coalition opposing any changes [...]
• Union Intimidation Tactics Stopped by Honest Business Owner
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• UC Berkeley Students Protest—Want More $$ 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
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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
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• Union Solidarity NOT Food Quality Object of Union “Restaurant” Guidebook
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• Teachers Union to SUE Teachers for Bribe Payments
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• Unions Await Fantastic Return on High-Speed Rail Political Investments
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• Teachers Unions Demand Right to Hold Children Hostage to Government Schools
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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, [...]