By Olivia Grady

On May 1, 2017, groups of people gathered on the streets to celebrate May Day.

But these weren’t people who had come to dance around a maypole with flowers or crown the Queen of May to celebrate the beginning of summer. These people were traditionally violent labor activists, celebrating a different kind of day.

This day to them was International Workers’ Day.

By Olivia Grady

On April 27, 2017, the Senate confirmed President Trump’s Department of Labor Secretary nominee, R. Alexander Acosta, by a 60-38 vote.

Interestingly, eight Democrat Senators voted for him: Bill Nelson (FL), Joe Manchin (WV), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Claire McCaskill (MO), Robert Menendez (NJ), Jon Tester (MT) and Mark Warner (VA). Angus King, an independent from Maine, voted for Acosta as well. Republican Senator Pat Toomey (PA) and Democrat Senator Gary Peters (MI) didn’t vote.

By Olivia Grady

On April 17, 2017, Kevin Mooney, an investigative reporter, was published in the Daily Signal. In his article, “Election Results Gave This Union Millions. Now State Lawmakers Are Looking Into Voter Fraud,” he details the Minnesota decertification project that the Center for Worker Freedom and its coalition allies have been helping with and the response by legislators.

By Olivia Grady

Recently, liberal groups, despite being supportive of forced unionization, have fought efforts to unionize their own workforce.

One example is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a powerful Muslim civil rights group that was indirectly created by Hamas and is still connected to that terrorist organization, according to Daniel Pipes, President of the Middle East Forum.

Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, was quoted in the Washington Examiner on April 6, 2017, on Secretary of Labor Nominee Alexander Acosta:

“The vote is expected later this month and "no trouble" is expected, according to a Republican source who requested anonymity.

Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, was quoted in Inside Sources on April 3, 2017, on how local Right-to-Work is spreading throughout the country:

Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, was published in the Fresno Bee on March 30, 2017, about corruption by the California labor board:

When you have a union and a labor board both being sued by former employees for unjust treatment, how can either be expected to deliver their promises of justice to California’s field workers?