Union Heavy: The New American Dream

Mark Rosenthal is the president of Local 983 of District Council 37 – which for those of you who don’t speak “Big Labor” is the largest municipal government employees’ union in New York City. He’s also the subject of one of the most embarrassing feature stories we’ve ever read – courtesy of The New York Post.
According [...]

State Of The Unions: 2013

Despite the best efforts of U.S. President Barack Obama and his goons on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), union membership continued its decline in 2012 – even as the job market modestly improved.
According to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 14.3 million American workers were unionized last year – [...]

Go Michigan!

NO, NOT THE WOLVERINES …
You won’t hear us yelling “Go Michigan!” very often in the near future … even though our founding editor’s wife, the lovely Mrs. Sic, is a devout Big Blue fan.
Michigan (a.ka. the U of M) is playing our beloved University of South Carolina in the 2013 Outback Bowl – where we [...]

Big Labor Kills The Twinkie

THOUSANDS OF WORKERS ALSO CASUALTIES OF UNION STRIKE
Although its vise grip on the American private sector has diminished in recent decades, organized labor is still a job killer in this country.
Just ask the Twinkie – a.k.a. the “Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling.”  Oh … and ask the 19,000 employees of Hostess Brands, who are [...]

Chicago Teachers On Strike

400,000 KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL IN THE WAKE OF LABOR DISPUTE
Rejecting a sixteen percent pay hike over the next four years, 26,000 public school teachers and support staff went on strike this week in Chicago, Illinois – leaving an estimated 400,000 school children with nowhere to go.  At issue?  A totally unsubstantiated claim by the local [...]

Lazenby: Piñata-gate’s Unintended Consequences

HOW BASHING NIKKI HALEY WOUND UP HELPING HER … AND HURTING LABOR
By Amy Lazenby || The idea of civility in politics, on both sides of the aisle, went by the wayside years ago – which is no surprise to anyone paying attention. But a particular incident brought to light last week involving progressive Democrats – specifically [...]

Boeing To Haley: “Stop Saying That”

Several of South Carolina’s most prominent corporate citizens are fed up with Gov. Nikki Haley dragging them into her war with organized labor.
Err … scratch that … they’re tired of Haley dragging them into her frequent rhetorical tirades against what is currently a nonexistent foe.
As part of her stump speech, Haley frequently invokes the names [...]

State Of The Unions

After shedding more than 1.4 million workers between 2008 and 2010, union membership held steady in 2011 – although the percentage of the American workforce that’s unionized edged down again.
A total of 14.7 million workers – or 11.8 percent of the nation’s workforce – were unionized last year, according to statistics released this week by [...]

Trikki’s Anti-Union Jihad: “Mission (Already) Accomplished”

EARTH TO HALEY: “THE BATTLE IS O’ER, THE VICTORY WON“
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has made going on the war path against unions her top priority of 2012 … assuming of course that your definition of “going on the war path” means issuing executive orders that duplicate existing state law and supporting state legislation that duplicates [...]

Obama And The Union Borg

U.S. President Barack Obama’s aggressive pro-union advocacy goes much deeper than his administration’s strong-arm tactics against aircraft manufacturer Boeing.
Obama’s administration is also engaging in a major new push to encourage unionization in the American workplace, as evidenced by enhanced taxpayer-funded notification – and auditing – efforts ostensibly aimed at “educating” workers about their right to [...]

Could Boeing Really Bail On SC?

With the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) going way, way (way) out on a limb with its unprecedented attempt to shut down Boeing’s South Carolina Dreamliner assembly plant, Palmetto state leaders are understandably anxious about the impact this effort could have on the tens of thousands of jobs the facility is supposed to create.
They’re also [...]

Haley Vows To “Talk Smack” To Unions

We’re all in favor of S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s tough stance against organized labor. South Carolina is a proud right-to-work state (one of the few things it can be proud of, actually), and the last thing our already struggling economy needs is for unions to gain a foothold here.
Of course the last time we checked [...]