Union boss Dan Osborn led a strike that helped put 550 Nebraska families out of work. Now this forced-unionism fanatic wants a U.S. Senate seat to strip workers of Right to Work protections nationwide. He failed Nebraska’s workers. Why give him power over America’s? osbornjoblosses.com/

Want to see what happens when government unions and politicians collude at taxpayers’ expense? Just look at California. It’s no secret that public sector unions help elect the politicians they negotiate with. I mean, who can blame them? That’s why they pour in tons of campaign cash, volunteers, advertising, and drive voters to the polls. Then those politicians negotiate pay, work rules, and exorbitant pension deals. And, when the bill finally comes due . . . those same politicians have already moved on to greener pastures, leaving taxpayers holding the tab. The New York Post correctly identifies the problem: politicians need to worry more about taxpayers than offending their union backers. But here’s the catch: That won’t happen as long as government unions retain monopoly bargaining power. Union bosses deliver political muscle and campaign support; politicians deliver lucrative contracts and pension promises. Expecting politicians to dismantle a system that rewards them politically is wishful thinking. Wisconsin, Virginia, and every other state flirting with the idea of imposing union monopoly bargaining on public workers should take a hard look. When union bosses help elect the politicians they negotiate with, taxpayers don’t stand a chance. nypost.com/2026/10/10/opinio…

UAW boss Shawn Fain’s “landslide” victory has a tiny little problem: Almost nobody voted! The media are touting his 68% reelection win as a rout. But the World Socialist Web Site (of all places) reports that more than 90% of rank-and-file members boycotted the vote. Some mandate! Maybe the media should ask why nine out of ten rank-and-file UAW members couldn’t be bothered to show up. wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10…

Wisconsin’s Act 10 is back in the crosshairs -- and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Act 10 curbed government union power by limiting collective bargaining and requiring public employees to contribute more toward their pensions and health benefits. Repealing it would be a massive step backward, restoring power to union bosses at taxpayers’ expense and threatening the fiscal reforms that helped Wisconsin rein in runaway government labor costs. Wisconsin must not turn back the clock and hand government unions the keys to the treasury again. dailycardinal.com/article/20…

Senator Ruben Gallego has unveiled his progressive utopian plan for the future, which consists of higher taxes and more unions. I bet you didn’t see that coming . . . But Gallego’s labor agenda gets even better. He wants to TRIPLE union membership by 2035, make it easier for union bosses to gain power, and force employers to negotiate with unions over workplace technology. And because nothing says progress like fighting technological advancements, Gallego wants a “robot tax” to discourage automation, restrictions on technology that replaces workers, and even government-funded jobs for workers displaced by AI. Apparently, Gallego thinks the way to build tomorrow’s economy is to tax innovation, hamstring businesses, and give union bosses more control over America’s workplaces. The American Dream, according to progressive Democrats! reason.com/2026/10/07/ruben-…

Four years. That’s how long it took Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna’s eight-person congressional staff to negotiate their first union contract. Why? Because, as his staffers explained, union contracts are complicated and directly affect workers’ lives. Fair enough. But you don’t work for a congressman. That’s why Khanna and his fellow Big Labor shill across the aisle, Republican Josh Hawley, want you to do it all in ninety days. That’s the absurdity of Josh Hawley’s so-called “Faster Labor Contracts Act.” Four years for an eight-person congressional office to negotiate a union contract. Ninety days for private-sector employers to reach a deal with a union -- regardless of the number of employees they have or the complexity of the negotiations -- then Washington bureaucrats step in and impose a deal. Yet Hawley pretends his bill will empower workers, when the only people empowered are his Big Labor friends. dnyuz.com/2026/10/07/congres…

Gretchen Whitmer is apparently so determined to repay the UAW for helping put her in office that she’s now acting as the union’s international saleswoman. After the UAW got crushed by Mercedes workers in Alabama, Whitmer wrote to a German government official asking him to pressure Mercedes to help the union organize its Alabama plant. Read that again: a Michigan governor is asking a foreign government to pressure a foreign company over a union vote in Alabama. And the irony? Whitmer repealed Michigan’s Right to Work law. Since then, Michigan has lost 36,200 manufacturing jobs and its unemployment rate has climbed to 5% . . . the fourth highest in the nation. When Alabama workers won’t buy what the UAW is selling, apparently Whitmer thinks a foreign government should step in and force the sale. archive.is/20261006152556/ht…

Where does Randi Weingarten think teachers’ union dues can best be used? Improving schools? Helping elevate children’s test scores? Incentivizing teacher performance? Nah! Weingarten thinks teachers' union dues are better used to fund the far-left’s political infrastructure. National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix nailed the bigger issue: “AFT’s own filings show how teachers’ dues money is being used as a political war chest to advance the far-left agenda of union bosses.” And why can Weingarten do this? Because government-granted monopoly bargaining power gives union bosses extraordinary power over public education and the resources to build a political machine around it. As Mark Mix put it: “Until that privilege is ended, teacher union bosses like Randi Weingarten will continue to abuse this extraordinary power to the detriment of students, teachers, and taxpayers.” And, dare we say, the country. dailysignal.com/2026/10/06/a…

Union boss and Senate candidate Dan Osborn’s “independent moderate” act is getting harder to maintain. Undercover audio reveals what Osborn really believes when he doesn’t think Nebraska voters are listening. He says he can’t tell Nebraska voters he supports men playing in women’s sports. Then he explains that once elected, he can become “the voice for LGBTQ and immigration"—because", as he puts it, “I’m gonna win this election. And then I’ll be the senator for six years, and everybody else can f-off.” That’s quite a definition of “independent.” There’s more. He privately called Trump’s border wall a “symbol of racism” while running campaign ads portraying himself as willing to help Trump build it. And he was caught describing Trump supporters as people whose lives “probably suck.” Then there’s his infamous Kellogg’s strike. Osborn called it a victory. But Kellogg’s later closed its Omaha plant, costing nearly 500 workers their jobs. So the picture emerging from Osborn’s own words is pretty straightforward: tell Nebraska voters what they want to hear to get elected—then secretly promise to do the opposite when elected. That’s not independence. That’s a political bait-and-switch. freebeacon.com/democrats/ind…

25 years of Right to Work -- and the results are hard to argue with. As this piece marking Oklahoma’s 25th anniversary explains, before Right to Work, Oklahoma’s job growth lagged the national average by 25%. Since then, employment growth has been more than 60% greater than the average for non-Right to Work states. And Oklahomans are taking home more, too: nearly $10,000 more in disposable income per person than the average resident of a non-Right to Work state, adjusted for regional cost-of-living differences. After 25 years, Right to Work has become an indispensable part of Oklahoma’s identity and a powerful example of what happens when workers have the freedom to choose whether to support a labor union. Freedom works. Oklahoma is living proof. yahoo.com/news/politics/arti…

AFT boss Randi Weingarten has demonstrated that her real interests have very little to do with education and everything to do with advancing left-wing politics and causes. As the Wall Street Journal points out, the teachers' union runs on two rules: teacher tenure for life and pay that is never based on performance. Even former AFT president Albert Shanker recognized the problem decades ago, saying that “as long as there are no consequences” and the focus isn’t on education and student outcomes, unions are simply playing a power game. Ya think! He recognized the problem but never did anything to fix it. And Weingarten’s tenure has been marked by just more of the same. Every bad teacher protected is another dues-paying member kept. That's not a bug. That’s the teachers' union's business model. wsj.com/opinion/nikole-hanna…

Talk about trying to hand Big Labor 190,000 home healthcare workers on a silver platter. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently replaced hundreds of companies that handled payroll and other administrative duties for home-care workers with ONE statewide company, Public Partnerships LLC (PPL). Now SEIU bosses are salivating at the prospect of using that consolidation to corral those 190,000 caregivers into one massive union bargaining unit -- and collect their dues. The good news? Right to Work Foundation attorneys are fighting back. The Foundation is challenging the organizing drive because PPL isn’t actually the caregivers’ employer. The caregivers are employed by the individuals who hire and direct them, and who are often family members or friends. PPL primarily serves as an intermediary, handling payroll and other administrative functions. The Foundation is also arguing that the proposed statewide bargaining unit doesn’t pass legal muster. In other words, SEIU bosses may have thought New York just handed them 190,000 potential dues payers. Thanks to Right to Work attorneys, the SEIU’s home healthcare bonanza just got slammed in the face. archive.is/jbdho

She quit the union. Disagreed with its politics. Still had to financially support it . . . and then that same union got her fired. That’s what happened to Southwest flight attendant Charlene Carter. Carter resigned from Transport Workers Union Local 556, but under the Railway Labor Act was still required to pay union fees as a condition of keeping her job. She objected to TWU boss Audrey Stone using union resources for her pet political causes, including the 2017 Women’s March and abortion advocacy. So the union reported her to Southwest. Southwest fired her. Then with the help of Right to Work attorneys, Carter fought back -- and won. Now Southwest and TWU Local 556 have agreed to pay more than $2.1 million in her legal fees and costs -- roughly $1.1 million each. That’s on top of the $473,000 Local 556 has already paid, putting its tab at more than $1.5 million, or roughly $71 per member, before its own legal bills. Charlene Carter was forced to support a union she had left. The union worked to get her fired. And after losing in court, its members have to pick up the tab. That’s what happens when union bosses put politics ahead of workers. viewfromthewing.com/southwes…

Imagine getting fired for serious misconduct -- then having your union get you your job back because the department was too lenient in the past. Welcome to the Kansas City Fire Department. The Kansas City Star editorial details firefighters involved in everything from a fatal crash resulting in three involuntary-manslaughter convictions to a marijuana-trafficking case and other serious misconduct. One firefighter pleaded guilty to felony assault after allegedly body-slamming a woman and punching her 30 times and was also reinstated. And Local 42’s argument? The department let firefighters get away with this stuff in the past . . . so it can’t suddenly impose harsher punishment now. Huh? Think about that logic: You didn’t enforce the rules before, so you’re not allowed to enforce them now. Meanwhile, Local 42 is fighting the fire chief’s disciplinary decisions. In the fatal-crash case, an arbitrator ordered the firefighter reinstated with full back pay and benefits -- and just three days without pay. So who’s really running the fire department: the fire chief or the union boss? If you live in Kansas City, you already know the answer. kansascity.com/opinion/artic…

Big Labor’s lust for workers’ cash has no limit. Check this out. An 86-year-old Navy veteran worked 12 hours a week at his local grocery store, the Village Market in Oakland, California. He worked there for four years and during that entire time not a single person from the UFCW Local 5 ever contacted him. They never asked him to join the union. They never asked for dues. But then one day the union bosses came a knockin’ demanding more than $3,500 in back dues and fees. He refused. So they demanded his employer fire him. Apparently, picking the pocket of an 86-year-old veteran wasn’t enough. They wanted his job, too . . . and got it. As Mark Mix put it: “Ultimately though, cases like this demonstrate why every worker in America deserves Right to Work protections to ensure that all union payments are strictly voluntary.” nrtw.org/news/veteran-filesc…

A Project Labor Agreement (PLA) is how Big Labor is able to eliminate virtually all competition in the bidding process on public construction jobs . . . while allowing union bosses to fleece taxpayers by driving up construction costs by more than 16%, according to a new study from the Fiscal Alliance Foundation. And the real-world evidence is hard to ignore. In Fall River, Massachusetts, three schools were put out for bid with a PLA. Competition was weak and costs soared. The city dropped the PLA and rebid the projects — and the number of bids dramatically increased while costs immediately fell by nearly $2 million. A comparable school without a PLA attracted nearly three times as many subcontractor bids. Less competition means higher costs. More competition means taxpayers get a better deal. Makes sense, right? Union bosses understand it too, which is why they demand their handpicked politicians mandate PLAs instead of allowing for open competition. The union bosses benefit by limiting competition, the politicians benefit with massive campaign contributions, and taxpayers like you and me get screwed. The solution is simple: Ban PLAs and let every qualified contractor compete. fiscalalliancefoundation.org…

Starbucks employee Joe Emmenegger liked the idea of labor unions . . . until he actually joined one. Then came the reality: union meetings held behind closed doors with only select members invited -- including the meeting where the decision to strike was made. Emmenegger and other union members were simply left out cold with no seat at the table, no vote, and no say whatsoever in a decision that directly affected their jobs and livelihoods. Then came the strike right before Christmas where he and his coworkers ultimately had enough. The result: More than 60% of his store’s employees signed a petition to remove the union. That’s twice the 30% showing of support the NLRB requires just to trigger a decertification election. Unfortunately, these workers found out that, like a union roach motel, once you check into a labor union, you can’t check out . . . at least not without some high-level legal help. Thankfully, these Starbucks workers aren’t fighting this battle alone. An attorney with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is providing free legal aid to help them navigate that arduous legal process to free themselves from an unwanted union. youtube.com/watch?v=e0J-KENh…