June 29, 2006 - 4:20 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
by Dennis C. Vacco
The American Spectator Online
June 29, 2006
The Restaurant Opportunity Center of New York, otherwise known as ROC-NY, has come to represent a curious new strategic model for labor organizers — one that all small and medium-sized business owners would do well to heed.
With financial and organizational support from Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, ROC-NY was initially formed to help find employment for the surviving employees of Windows on the World, destroyed when the World Trade Center was attacked. To date, the group continues to emphasize its role as a September 11-based organization when soliciting donations. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
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June 25, 2006 - 9:14 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
by Carl Horowitz
The secret ballot is the engine of representative democracy. A person casts a vote in complete confidence without fearing coercion, bribery or blackmail by onsite opponents.
For some 70 years American labor law has operated on this principle. If and when employees decide whether to be represented by a particular union, they shouldn’t have to worry about pressure from their peers, the union or the employer. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) supervises this process.
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June 21, 2006 - 8:31 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
UNION SEE, UNION DO(-DOO)
It’s amazing how similar labor unions are, not only in this country, but around the world. Take Fiji’s teachers union, for example. Just like America’s teachers unions, the “professional educators” in Fiji are getting themselves involved in a whole bunch of public policy areas which have absolutely nothing to do with readin’, writin’ and ‘rithmetic. And they’re absolutely shameless in their use of overheated sky-is-falling anti-corporate rhetoric. Get a load of this…
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June 18, 2006 - 4:37 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), was recently described by CBS News’ Leslie Stahl as “a new breed of union boss” who is “known as a street fighter and will use hardball tactics against companies.” That is generally understood by the non-union world to mean whatever it takes - no matter how unfair, untruthful or underhanded. “Dirty pool” is the SEIU’s game of choice.
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June 17, 2006 - 1:27 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
THIS JUST IN…
News Flash: The nation’s worst air disaster occurred today when a small two-seater Cessna 150 plane piloted by two union officials crashed into a cemetery located near the union’s headquarters in Washington, DC this morning. Union search-and-rescue workers have recovered 300 bodies so far and expect the number to climb as digging continues into the evening. The pilot and copilot survived and are helping in the recovery efforts.
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June 14, 2006 - 3:08 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
UNION BOSSES LOVE AMNESTY
“Whereas union leaders for decades had believed – and with more than passing evidence – that a huge influx of unskilled workers from abroad drives down wages, they have come to view immigrants as the salvation of the labor movement. Their current position is to get as many immigrants here as possible, and then organize them. That way, the primacy of unions in American life would be restored. Such a strategy includes adjusting the status of those illegally here – in other words, granting amnesty.”
- Union Corruption Update, 5/8/06
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June 8, 2006 - 11:21 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
FORGET INTERPOL
“Mexico has asked world police body Interpol to help capture the fugitive leader of Mexico’s main miners union, who is accused of stealing millions of dollars from workers,” Reuters reported on June 2.
A fugitive Mexican union boss on the lam? Forget Interpol. Just have LAPD check out the SEIU’s office in Los Angeles!
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June 5, 2006 - 8:13 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
Ronald Reagan may have killed it - but he forgot to drive a stake through its heart, which is why the monster is once again prowling the halls of Congress and feeding off the American taxpayer.
I’m talking about, of course, the air traffic controllers union. During his first term in office, President Reagan warned the union, PATCO, not to cripple the nation’s air travel system by going out on strike. They did anyway. As a consequence, Reagan did what Reagan said he was going to do; he fired the striking controllers and replaced them. End of story, right?
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June 2, 2006 - 9:51 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, two Schreiber Foods employees from Green Bay, Wisconsin, have asked a federal appellate court to order the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to decide a long-delayed case the workers initiated in 1989. Having refrained from formal union membership, the workers are challenging union officials’ use of their forced union dues for activities unrelated to collective bargaining, such as union organizing.
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June 2, 2006 - 3:40 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
LIBERAL “OLD BULL” SLAMS UNION GREED
“I have always been a supporter of the labor movement. Unions have a proud legacy of improving the lives of millions of workers over the last century. But lately I have seen developments that have me worried.
“…Delphi Corp., the biggest auto parts supplier in the country and the employer of 34,000 hourly workers, is bankrupt. One big reason is that the company’s unionized workers earn $64 an hour in wages and benefits - more than twice what some of its competitors pay.
“General Motors and Ford - the companies that have epitomized high-paying unionized jobs over the last several decades - have stated that they will lay off 30,000 workers each…
“Airlines have come under similar pressure. The bankruptcy stories associated with legacy carriers are driven in large part by the compensation packages and work rules that unions have won for their members, which are too expensive compared to more recent entrants such as Southwest.
“…Not unlike members of Congress, union leaders are in the business of asking for more. That’s what their mentors and predecessors and heroes did. It’s very difficult to turn around and say that ‘more’ is not always possible. . . . But union leaders who still see American businesses as the enemy must update that vision.”
- Former Democrat U.S. senator and presidential candidate George McGovern, Los Angeles Times, 5/22/06
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June 1, 2006 - 10:50 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
by Stefan Gleason
Following a two-month media circus at the University of Miami that included strikes, high-profile visits from national politicians and activists, and even a hunger strike, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) officials are now claiming victory.
What’s the victory? Workers will have less freedom to choose whether to unionize, of course!
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