Scott Shifrel a daily news staff writer for the New York Daily News recently wrote an article on the Carpenters Union offical John Greaney that cut a deal with the feds in order to turn in the ex-boss Michael Forde for inappropriate actions.

The former president and business manager of United Brothers of Carpenters Local 608 admitted he sold out his members to line his own pockets.

Freedom2Work recently found a disturbing trend in the government that is pushing toward unionizing any shop that wants to work on federal contracts.  Below is quoted text on this agenda, as well as a link in order to fill out the petition.

The private sector must unite to oppose unfair union activism by elected officials and by public sector officials. We must make two big changes:

1.) The President has signed Executive Orders that can require businesses that want to contract with the federal government to unionize. And his appointed Secretary of Labor (a former executive with the Service Employees International Union-SEIU) has written rules to make it standard practice. There is no way that our government should be allowed to require any business to be unionized in order to get government contracts that are paid for with taxpayer money!

2.) There is NO WAY that the public sector employees, who are paid with taxpayer dollars, should be allowed to take the tax dollars we pay them and give it as dues to a union who then provides political contributions to elected officials who will agree to give them even more taxpayer dollars. It is a clear conflict of interest and must be stopped.

To fill out the petition <<<Click Here>>>

A recent emial recieved by Freedom 2 Work.

Friends:

Your help is urgently needed to block a devious attempt to include the misnamed “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act” (PSEECA) in Supplemental Appropriations Bill, H.R. 4899, that is moving in Congress.

The PSEECA would tear constitutional federalism to shreds by using the power of the federal government to impose unionism on state and local public safety – police, fire, and rescue departments in states that have had the good sense to not give public sector unions monopoly bargaining powers.

Please immediately contact your U.S. Senators in opposition to this Union Boss power grab.

Visit http://www.psrconline.com/publicsafety.htm for more details about the legislation, including a list of the 23 states that would be adversely effected, and a link to information about how to contact your U.S. Senators.

Please forward this e-mail to anyone you think might be able to help mobilize opposition to this dangerous legislation.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Found on Halt the Assult, recently The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore wrote in the Political Diary, “It’s rare these days for unions to suffer a political setback, but the California election results in early June were a big defeat. Now a business group that played a key role in the battle is ready to expand its efforts.”

As we explore what the unions have done to shape the current economic crises it is organizations like Association of  Builders & Contractors (ABC) that continue to fight the power grabs.

“The Associated Builders and Contractors spearheaded a successful effort in two California cities to rein in rules that require union labor on state construction projects. Now the group is aiming to repeat its success statewide.”

There have been many wins, but there is still a long road to haul as only a handful of states have banned PLAs.  Moore wrote, “A handful of states have repealed such “project labor agreements.” PLAs have been banned by gubernatorial executive order in Minnesota and Arkansas. Legislatures in Utah, Missouri and Montana have also acted to ban or partially ban these pro-union agreements.”

ABC is putting up the good fight, and we need to come together and support thier efforts in our own states until the battle is won.

Girard Miller is the Public Money columnist for GOVERNING and a senior strategist at the PFM Group.  In a recent article Miller stated, “So the compensation system is clearly dysfunctional here. We have massive labor supply and no demand, yet public employee compensation and benefits remain “sticky downward” as the great economist John Maynard Keynes observed.”

Miller is proposing that the arbitration methods have led to a strong downward decline in the ability to offer compensation packages that make sense in the long term.    As an example Miller points out what has happened in California:

“If you look back at how California got itself into its current pension mess, a lot of it came from the “me-too” bargaining strategies of public safety unions that worked their way up into irrevocable pension formulas, granting them lifetime income at 3 percent of salary times years of service once they reach age 50.”

In the end Miller is looking for drastic changes in the arbitration rules simply because as a nation we will be looking at dire circumstances unless these changes happen.  Miller finalized his thoughts with, “Something has to change in the states’ arbitration laws, or we will find ourselves becoming more and more like Greece and other European states that have dug themselves into inescapable financial holes.”

To read the entire article:

The Arbitration Game

Another big Union Company creating problems for the Non Union competitor.We as Americans all have a choice, where we choose to work and who we choose to work for. With big union corruption and harrasment threating and intimidating the small business owners and their workers where do we draw the line. Do the big unions have more rights than the small business owners ? I am beginning to think so. Why do they have more rights and why are they allowed to do things we would never do as Americans or small business owners. I thought it was a FREE country and we as American have a FREE CHOICE !!!!! Do We ?

                                                          UPS & Teamsters against federal Express

The more we learn about the big unions ,the more we learn about how corrupt they have become.. follow the money and see where it leads you.

                                                                               Union Corruption

With Congress still looking at passing EFCA……At this point I would not put it past them. The Big Unions have given the President and the gang running the White House alot of money.

                                         Big Labor-Big Trouble

Even though this article is dated in 2007, this issue is still hot in the congressional debates.  It is time that we pay attention to what lobbiests are trying to push through, especially when we are not minding the store.

Union Free Choice

This article will give you information on unions and how they will and have affected the economy. It will also give detail and help you to understand how unions work and how corrupt some of them have become. It is a great article from a Great source.                

What Unions Do- How Labor Unions Affect Jobs and the Economy