Teamsters: Taking on freedom of speech around the world
Argentina has faced a lot of adversity in the last decade, not the least of which was the Kirchner Administration’s (and the legislature’s) recent attack on free speech and the press, as reported in the Wall Street Journal. It doesn’t help that the Teamsters locals are cutting off paper distribution, to force unionization under the [more...]

Posted Thu, 05 Nov 2009 .

Retirement: Sexual harrassment by any other name
One of 24 international vice presidents of the Teamsters, James Santangelo, has resigned his multiple posts within the Teamsters union. He was the president of Teamsters Joint Council 42 which represented 129,000 members in California, Hawaii, and elsewhere. He also led Local 848. While the Teamsters maintain they didn’t force him out, you wonder why they [more...]

Posted Thu, 05 Nov 2009 .

Memo to John Sweeney: Get a Better Pollster

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Union bosses have been cooking the books. As they attempt to end secret ballot elections for employees deciding whether to join a union, labor chiefs claim to have a groundswell of support. The real numbers tell a different story.

The AFL-CIO commissioned a study – which they won’t release – claiming that 60 million Americans want a union. But prestigious polls, including questions originally crafted on behalf of the AFL-CIO and recently commissioned by the Center for Union Facts – suggest most Americans don’t want to join a union and they don’t want union bosses stealing their right to a personal, private vote. Consider:

Fully 74% of non-union workers say they would not “personally like to be a member of a labor union.”
— Zogby International poll, August 2006

64% of workers say they would prefer their present job to be non-union.
— Opinion Research Corporation Poll, March 2007
78% of Americans prefer secret ballots for union organizing.
— Opinion Research Corporation Poll, March 2007
87% agree that “every worker should continue to have the right to a federally supervised secret ballot election when deciding whether to organize a union.”
— McLaughlin and Associates, January 2007