Hourly employees working for AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who are represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) are being treated unfairly. Richard Trumka (head of AFL-CIO) and Mary Kay Henry (president of SEIU) are hypocritical. While these union leaders accuse companies of not sharing their wealth with employees,…

I recently reported that the SEIU slashed its budget by $90,000,000. Not to be outdone, the AFL-CIO is laying off a lot of workers. The AFL-CIO is dismissing dozens of staff members – both union and management – amid continuing declines in union membership. Oh yeah, they, too, are blaming President Trump and his not-yet-enacted…

There has recently been a push to lift the 40-year old ban on oil exports. Several economists believe that pushing domestic crude oil into the world market will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, contribute tens of billions of Gross Domestic Product dollars, put downward pressure on domestic fuel prices, and provide our allies…

Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO believes that if unions are having a hard time increasing their ranks, they can at least restore their clout by building a broad coalition to advance a worker-friendly political and economic agenda. He will invite millions of non-union workers into the labor movement even if their own workplaces are…