Print Don Loos Read Full Bio SCOTUS Slams Door on SEIU Forced Dues for Politics Scheme The SEIU’s scheme was clearly unconstitutional, and in 2008, a federal district court ruled that union officials must provide a notice to nonunion employees about the assessment, allow them to opt-out of paying into the union political fund, provide a refund of monies spent on union politics, and pay interest from the dates of the deductions to nonmembers who chose to opt out. After a Ninth Circuit panel reversed the decision in 2010, the Supreme Court finally stepped in and ruled the SEIU’s scheme unconstitutional. 22 Jun 2012 SEIU Union Bosses May Make LAX the Most Dangerous Airport in America LAX could become the weak link in airport safety. Nor should free people look away as others endure the bully tactics of the LA Mayor’s office and allow the LAWA board to force workers to pay union dues just to get a or keep a job at LAX. 18 May 2012 Court Victories Could End Card-Check Scheme A major flaw in this Card Check scheme is that the so-called “neutrality agreement” creates an inescapable “thing of value” and violates the Taft-Hartley Act. Now, the Eleventh Circuit Court has repeatedly agreed that this neutrality agreement indeed violated the law. 14 May 2012 Big Labor Hires Imams, Priests, and Rabbis for its War on Worker Freedom The Times’ Stephanie Simon reported that the AFL-CIO “… hired more than three dozen aspiring ministers, imams, priests, and rabbis to spread the gospel …”of Compulsory Unionism. Her article provides a solid example of years of labor union bosses’ hiring religious leaders to act as labor persuaders; here the persuaders are attempting to use their religions to cloak the Big Labor message. 3 May 2012 SCOTUS Reviews Big Labor’s Forced Political Interest-Free Loans In Knox v SEIU, the illogic of requiring non-union members to provide interest-free loans for Big Labor political activities comes under the Supreme Court’s scrutiny. In this National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation case, Dianne Knox and others challenge SEIU’s special assessment to members and non-members for its “$12 million Political Fight-Back Fund” that essentially created a mandatory interest-free loan from non-members’ dues for political purposes they opposed. 10 Apr 2012 Fire Fighter Union Boss Rips Off Taxpayers, Part 3: Big Labor Boss Payback In the two previous blog installments “Part 1: Quid Pro Quo” and “Part 2: Get Out Jail Free Cards” the real-life scandal of government union boss Ron Saathoff is documented. “Part 1” exposes Saathoff’s abuse of his position and taxpayers to reap a special taxpayer-funded retirement increase in an apparent exchange for his vote sanctioning the city employees’ pension to become increasingly underfunded. “Part 2” exposes two politically motivated chief prosecutors whose offices dropped their cases against Saathoff for questionable reasons. 22 Feb 2012 Fire Fighter Union Boss Rips Off Taxpayers, Part 2: Get Out Jail Free Cards The previous article, “Part 1, Quid Pro Quo,” introduces the selfish Fire Fighter Union (IAFF) Local President Ron Saathoff’s successful scheme to have taxpayers fund his union officer retirement program in exchange for his votes to weaken the pension plans for San Diego government employees. In fact, Saathoff began collecting his taxpayer-funded “enhanced pension” one year, at age 55, after he started trading his pension board votes, and several before he retired from his union presidency. 21 Feb 2012 Fire Fighter Union Boss Rips Off Taxpayers, Part 1: Quid Pro Quo This is a story that can be told far too often. It’s about a Union Boss who rips off taxpayers and his own union members in order to have a fatter retirement. But, this story has so many twists that it will take three articles to give it justice – “Part 1: Quid Pro Quo,” “Part 2: Get Out Of Jail Free Cards,” and “Part 3: Big Labor Boss Payback.” By the end of the three blogs, you should have a terrible taste in your mouth and a feeling of outrage about a system corrupted by union bosses from local town halls to the White House. Let’s begin with an introduction to the protagonist. 21 Feb 2012 Big Labor Plans Super Bowl Chaos 2 Feb 2012 Big Labor Fail: Forced-Dues Coming to an End in Indiana 1 Feb 2012 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next
SCOTUS Slams Door on SEIU Forced Dues for Politics Scheme The SEIU’s scheme was clearly unconstitutional, and in 2008, a federal district court ruled that union officials must provide a notice to nonunion employees about the assessment, allow them to opt-out of paying into the union political fund, provide a refund of monies spent on union politics, and pay interest from the dates of the deductions to nonmembers who chose to opt out. After a Ninth Circuit panel reversed the decision in 2010, the Supreme Court finally stepped in and ruled the SEIU’s scheme unconstitutional. 22 Jun 2012
SEIU Union Bosses May Make LAX the Most Dangerous Airport in America LAX could become the weak link in airport safety. Nor should free people look away as others endure the bully tactics of the LA Mayor’s office and allow the LAWA board to force workers to pay union dues just to get a or keep a job at LAX. 18 May 2012
Court Victories Could End Card-Check Scheme A major flaw in this Card Check scheme is that the so-called “neutrality agreement” creates an inescapable “thing of value” and violates the Taft-Hartley Act. Now, the Eleventh Circuit Court has repeatedly agreed that this neutrality agreement indeed violated the law. 14 May 2012
Big Labor Hires Imams, Priests, and Rabbis for its War on Worker Freedom The Times’ Stephanie Simon reported that the AFL-CIO “… hired more than three dozen aspiring ministers, imams, priests, and rabbis to spread the gospel …”of Compulsory Unionism. Her article provides a solid example of years of labor union bosses’ hiring religious leaders to act as labor persuaders; here the persuaders are attempting to use their religions to cloak the Big Labor message. 3 May 2012
SCOTUS Reviews Big Labor’s Forced Political Interest-Free Loans In Knox v SEIU, the illogic of requiring non-union members to provide interest-free loans for Big Labor political activities comes under the Supreme Court’s scrutiny. In this National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation case, Dianne Knox and others challenge SEIU’s special assessment to members and non-members for its “$12 million Political Fight-Back Fund” that essentially created a mandatory interest-free loan from non-members’ dues for political purposes they opposed. 10 Apr 2012
Fire Fighter Union Boss Rips Off Taxpayers, Part 3: Big Labor Boss Payback In the two previous blog installments “Part 1: Quid Pro Quo” and “Part 2: Get Out Jail Free Cards” the real-life scandal of government union boss Ron Saathoff is documented. “Part 1” exposes Saathoff’s abuse of his position and taxpayers to reap a special taxpayer-funded retirement increase in an apparent exchange for his vote sanctioning the city employees’ pension to become increasingly underfunded. “Part 2” exposes two politically motivated chief prosecutors whose offices dropped their cases against Saathoff for questionable reasons. 22 Feb 2012
Fire Fighter Union Boss Rips Off Taxpayers, Part 2: Get Out Jail Free Cards The previous article, “Part 1, Quid Pro Quo,” introduces the selfish Fire Fighter Union (IAFF) Local President Ron Saathoff’s successful scheme to have taxpayers fund his union officer retirement program in exchange for his votes to weaken the pension plans for San Diego government employees. In fact, Saathoff began collecting his taxpayer-funded “enhanced pension” one year, at age 55, after he started trading his pension board votes, and several before he retired from his union presidency. 21 Feb 2012
Fire Fighter Union Boss Rips Off Taxpayers, Part 1: Quid Pro Quo This is a story that can be told far too often. It’s about a Union Boss who rips off taxpayers and his own union members in order to have a fatter retirement. But, this story has so many twists that it will take three articles to give it justice – “Part 1: Quid Pro Quo,” “Part 2: Get Out Of Jail Free Cards,” and “Part 3: Big Labor Boss Payback.” By the end of the three blogs, you should have a terrible taste in your mouth and a feeling of outrage about a system corrupted by union bosses from local town halls to the White House. Let’s begin with an introduction to the protagonist. 21 Feb 2012
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