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The Anaheim Police Assn. has joined forces with Jeff Flint, a lobbyist the FBI once deemed a “ringleader” of a self-described “cabal.”
Lobbyist involved in Angel Stadium controversy returns to advise police union
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"A former union official representing more than 1,200 Cuyahoga County social workers pleaded guilty Wednesday to her role in a $350,000 embezzlement scheme...
Burrell-Williams and former union President Pamela Brown are accused of using the union’s debit card to withdraw cash at casinos and writing unauthorized checks from the union’s operating account between 2017 and 2022."
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An 86-year-old Navy vet worked part-time at his neighborhood grocery for 4 years.
The union never contacted him.
Then it demanded $3,500+ in back dues and, he says, got him fired when he wouldn’t pay.
That’s appalling!
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Former legal rights attorney at AFGE District 14
Op-ed: Federal unions got caught standing still: Federal workers face the consequences
"Each case stands on its own, and none alone proves national misconduct. But together, they demand an answer to a question BUEs have asked me directly: What are national leaders doing about this? Is it a blind spot — or one they tolerate as long as the dues keep flowing?"
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We are accepting applications for Exec Asst to the President.
Come work for the best organization with the best people in the labor policy arena. Do you wear many hats, support worker freedom, and can be the hub of our organization?
Preference to DC area applicants, remote position.
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Automatic payroll deductions provide a reliable way to collect membership dues. Without that service, the union must persuade members to pay directly, which reduces collections and increases administrative costs. AFGE has established alternative electronic dues collection, but losing government payroll withholding remains a financial pressure point.
VA Contract Fight: 320,000 Employees and Union Dues Payments at Stake buff.ly/rJiPDMT
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In September, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law aim squarely at the Freedom Foundation’s work informing public employees of their rights.
Here’s what you need to know ⬇️
Freedom Foundation’s outreach has helped drive one of the largest declines in union membership in U.S. history. Some 300,000 people in the last six years have canceled their union membership, and the number keeps growing.
Now New York lawmakers want to stop workers from hearing about their rights. We're fighting back in court. Follow along for updates on our lawsuit, and know that we'll keep reaching workers across the country so they can make informed decisions about union membership.
"We have concerns about use of union dues, potential restrictions on scheduling flexibility, and the division that could develop between coworkers and hospital leadership. We want people to do their research and see that CNA donates millions of dollars to political organizations that don’t have any direct connection to our community..."Opposing the union does not mean opposing better working conditions. It means believing there is another way forward."
Some CommonSpirit Memorial Hospital Nurses Oppose Unionization buff.ly/G9FjXI3
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California’s construction unions are running ads against their own jobs
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Our report by @AkashJC & @vinnievernuccio Unions Need Democracy: 95 Percent of Union Workers Never Voted for Their Union i4aw.org/reports/unions-need…
95% of Employees Under Union Contracts Never Voted for IT!
Though 95 percent of currently unionized workers have never voted for the union that represents them, union bosses have generally felt the need to pay lip service to the idea that, at least at one point in the past, a majority of workers expressed a preference for union affiliation. No longer.
Today, just around one in 10 workers are unionized. A Gallup poll shows the vast majority of non-union workers are “not interested at all” in joining a labor union.
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Brandyn Marion, an electrician at Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Company (KU), has prevailed in his dispute with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 2100, after union bosses backed down and settled Marion’s case against them.
Electrician Prevails in Case Against IBEW Local 2100 Bosses Blocking Him From Cutting Off Union Dues buff.ly/PQKuKbx
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A Big Reason California suffers a housing crisis: Big Labor Bosses would rather slow down construction than face competition from free enterprise...
California’s construction unions are running ads against their own jobs ocregister.com/2026/10/21/ca…
SEIU "Locals 1 and 73 threw their formidable support behind Alexi Giannoulias, the presumed frontrunner with a campaign war chest of $19.2 million. SEIU affiliates together donated over $4.5 million to Johnson’s 2023 mayoral campaign. The union also provided scores of campaign workers and materials."
Feud between progressive unions that put Mayor Johnson in office yields Giannoulias key endorsement buff.ly/JFTgoK2
OREGON:
The city has said its final offer for CPPW includes about $9.1 million in new spending, while the union’s would require approximately $19.8 million over the same period.
More than 800 city of Portland workers poised to strike
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Fain’s strongest areas were UAW Region 9A, which generally represents university students and lawyers in the northeast, and UAW Region 6, which generally represents students at the University of California. Fain took 76.65 percent of the vote in Region 9A and 75.23 percent of the vote in Region 6.
@unionFacts: Member Apathy and College Students Give Fain a Second Term as UAW President
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Brandyn Marion (an electrician at Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company) has prevailed in his dispute with IBEW Local 2100 after union bosses backed down and settled the case.
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Idaho just stopped using the state as a debt collector for the teachers' union, which means more money stays in teachers’ paychecks and less flows into the big union machine.
Another successful Freedom Foundation endeavor has resulted in taxpayer funding being but from teachers’ unions in Idaho.
After House Bill 516 took effect on July 1, the Idaho Education Association (IEA) was forced to re-evaluate their budget now that the state will no longer operate as a debt-collector and will be cutting about 13% of its staff and closing all regional offices outside of Boise.
Another win for protecting teachers’ paychecks and stopping the taxpayer slush fund into unions. 🔥
Op-ed: But the program would create competition with Connecticut’s “public schools,” the euphemism for schools controlled by teacher unions. That is, the schools subject to the state law requiring binding arbitration for teacher union contracts, the state law prohibiting municipalities from reducing school budgets, and the state law prohibiting disclosure of teacher evaluations.
Commentary: Is Gov. Lamont Really Considering Defying Teacher Unions for Once?
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