Exclusive to McHenry County Blog by John Lopez, second in a series of articles on the topic of workers freedoms through independent contracting On Friday, a report titled “The State of the Unions 2023” was released going into Labor Day weekend. … Continue reading
Category Archives: AFL-CIO
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The umbrella labor union organization is next on commenter Mark’s list of Lying Jack Franks union contributors–the AFL-CIO. Here’s another contribution entered in the Illinois State Board of Elections data base in 1998 under a slightly different name Il State … Continue reading
Harvard’s Milk Day Parade was Saturday. I was there looking for election tea leaves. What I saw in the first part of the parade can be found here. Another Democrat came next. He is Dennis Anderson, the minority party’s second-time … Continue reading
And here’s the public unions’ response: We Are One Illinois statement on Quinn news conference Responding to Gov. Pat Quinn’s news conference on pensions held Friday, April 20, Illinois AFL-CIO president Michael Carrigan issued this statement for the We Are … Continue reading
Here’s what a union member received in the email today: What happened Tuesday in Massachusetts was a wake-up call to all of us. It was a working class revolt—a signal that in this economic crisis, the American people demand jobs, … Continue reading