Iowa Curtails Big Labor Monopoly Privileges
The Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing found that, from 2020-2023, nearly half of the elections that were required to take place [...] simply did not occur.
SEIU, UFCW and other unions that spent hundreds of millions of dollars of forced union dues supporting ObamaCare have filed requests to be exempt and have been granted exemptions from onerous ObamaCare regulations. ObamaCare continues to create hypocrites out of Big Labor and the Obama Administration. Below is a partial list of waivers granted by the Obama Administrations (for the current list from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services click here):
| Applicant | Application Received | Number of Enrollees | Waiver Approved | |
| 10 | Service Employees Benefit Fund | 10/12/2010 | 1,297 | 10/29/2010 |
| 12 | UFCW Allied Trade Health & Welfare Trust | 10/5/2010 | 68 | 10/29/2010 |
| 14 | IBEW No.915 | 9/28/2010 | 930 | 10/28/2010 |
| 15 | Integra BMS for Culp, Inc. | 10/4/2010 | 34 | 10/28/2010 |
| 19 | Asbestos Workers Local 53 Welfare Fund | 9/29/2010 | 2 | 10/26/2010 |
| 33 | Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 123 Welfare Fund | 9/30/2010 | 534 | 10/26/2010 |
| 35 | UFCW Local 227 | 10/12/2010 | 1,125 | 10/26/2010 |
| 52 | UFCW Maximus Local 455 | 10/4/2010 | 59 | 10/18/2010 |
| 55 | Local 25 SEIU | 9/29/2010 | 31,000 | 10/14/2010 |
| 60 | UFCW Local 1262 | 9/20/2010 | 5,390 | 10/14/2010 |
| 78 | Local 802 Musicians Health Fund | 9/29/2010 | 1,801 | 10/1/2010 |
| 83 | Local 17 Hospitality Benefit Fund | 9/16/2010 | 881 | 9/30/2010 |
| 89 | I.U.P.A.T | 9/16/2010 | 875 | 9/27/2010 |
| 91 | Transport Workers | 9/20/2010 | 107 | 9/27/2010 |
| 92 | UFT Welfare Fund (NY Teachers Union) | 9/16/2010 | 351,000 | 9/27/2010 |
(H/T The Drudge Report)
The Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing found that, from 2020-2023, nearly half of the elections that were required to take place [...] simply did not occur.
In 2014, with Right to Work attorneys’ help, Pam Harris and other home caregivers terminated schemes mandating union dues payment as a condition of receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
Candidate Trump wisely refused to give in to Mr. O’Brien’s anti-Right to Work cajoling, and by the Teamster hierarchy’s own account this is the reason he never received the union’s endorsement, despite internal polling that showed Teamster members lopsidedly preferred him in the general election.