Hollywood union seeking Obamacare exemptions to avoid Cadillac tax
The WGA East is calling for all union health plans to be exempted from the Affordable Care Act’s so-called “Cadillac Tax,” a 40% nondeductible excise tax that is scheduled to go into effect in 2018 on employers More...
Federal employee hack reveals social security numbers not encrypted
Government officials are now detailing the magnitude of the December 2014 cyber attack which leaked personal information of atleast four million federal employees. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) did More...
President Obama suggests GOP would ‘get fired’ for shutdown, making comparisons to worker strikes
Described as a gaffe by conservative critics, President Obama spoke to a Maryland crowd Thursday about the shutdown, comparing the GOP to workers refusing to show up for work until their demands were met. donkeyhotey More...
Senator Rand Paul introduces National Right to Work bill
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul introduced the National Right to Work Act, S. 204 Thursday, which seeks to preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, More...
Robert Reich says unionization of Walmart will get the economy growing
The Keynesians have really brought flawed theories to the forefront during the past month by two of their preeminent thinkers. Robert ReichImage/United States Department of Labor Earlier in the month, it was Paul More...
Robert Reich calls for massive Wal-Mart, McDonalds and hospital labor unions
Robert Reich, the former Clinton labor secretary turned MSNBC contributor, targeted some of America’s largest companies calling for a massive union of their forces and argues that these companies should embrace More...
Ron Paul: ‘Right to work laws simply prohibit coercion’
You Tube screen shot A week after the “nexus of the labor movement” in the United States, Michigan, became the 24th state to adopt right-to-work laws, big union is formulating a plan to have the law More...
Jimmy Hoffa Jr: ‘take SOBs out’, declaring war on Tea Party
Cranking up the anti-Tea Party rhetoric, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa called on workers to “take these son-of-a-bitches out” as he warmed up a crowd Monday in Detroit ahead of President Obama’s More...
Care for Cargo, Air Canada Strike by Rants and Raves
The Air Canada strike was called June 14, mere minutes before the federal government introduced legislation to force the strikers back to work. It appears that this is a very important issue to the government, as More...
