The army of anti-worker corporate groups hiring armies of lobbyists and pouring $200 million into defeating the Employee Free Choice Act have devoted most of their time and money to hammering home a single talking point: The bill will eliminate the sacrosanct "secret ballot" now enjoyed by workers d...

The Employee Free Choice Act is set to be introduced in both chambers today, which will kick off a public relations battle over passage in which corporate special interest groups plan on spending some $200 million to defeat it. Already, the framing wars are underway, with corporate opponents referri...

Credit where credit is due: when it comes to promoting the Republican agenda, there is no one better than Fox News. And with the White House announcement that Vice President Biden would address the AFL-CIO Executive Council in Miami Beach, the Fox team was armed for a double-barrel attack against tw...

Hilda Solis was confirmed as Secretary of Labor this week. After a bumpy confirmation process in which her nomination was held up by questions about her role as a lobbyist for the Free Choice Act while also serving in Congress, she was approved overwhelmingly by the Senate.Unions are happy with Soli...

[I'm extremely late in posting this and I've been blogging sporadically because sometimes real flesh and blood life intrudes on pixels on the screen life and for the last five weeks I've been going after work each day to visit my mom in the hospital and then going to my bubba's to check in on her an...

A few minutes ago Harry Reid announced that there will be a final confirmation vote at 4:30 EST today.  That means that Republican leader Mitch McConnell—husband of Elaine Chao, George W. Bush's secretary of labor, whose appointment was never subject to a cloture vote—determined it ...

State unemployment insurance funds have been going broke left and right.  There are disputes between some states and the Obama administration about money going to state UI funds, and the transfer of the funds will require strong oversight to make sure states use the funds as intended.   Fa...

One more step remains for Hilda Solis to become the nation's 25th Secretary of Labor, the seventh woman to hold that position. And that's supposed to happen on Tuesday. Or rather, as rules expert David Waldman aka Kagro X would say, two steps. A vote to cut off debate, which takes 60 Senators, and a...

Steve Rosenthal has a post over at Huffington on Obama's nominee to be Secretary of Labor: Hilda Solis. He also exposes the growing outrage among the business groups because Barack Obama nominated a pro-labor Secretary of Labor. What an outrage, huh? But, the corporate folks (you know, the ones who ...

Download | Play    Download | Play You Tube Lou Dobbs and Drew Griffin go after the SEIU and the Employee Free Choice Act in this anti-union hit job. Dobbs even manages to squeeze in a shot at Acorn at the end of the segment. He doesn't seem to have much use for our First Amendment an...