Archive for September, 2006
September 30, 2006 - 9:19 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
WHO’S THIS “WE,” PALEFACE
Teamsters President James P. Hoffa, preparing for negotiations with UPS, recently taunted the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, telling the Detroit Free Press that his union was far healthier than theirs. “We’re not laying anybody off; we’re hiring,” Hoffa told the Free Press. “We’re making money; they’re losing money — a lot of dissimilarities.”
“We’re” hiring? To hear Hoffa tell it, it’s the UNION that creates jobs, not the employer that the union negotiates with. “We’re” making money? Get real. Unions do make money in the sense that they extract dues from members, often unwillingly, in order to provide labor bosses such as Hoffa with hefty salaries and benefits, luxury cars and exotic vacations. But unions don’t “make” money in the traditional sense of the word, meaning you provide a service or product for sale to consumers.
Much as Hoffa wants you believe he creates jobs and wealth, the fact is unions are nothing more than leeches on the financial success of true entrepreneurs and capitalists. Turn union bosses loose to fend for themselves in a free market economy and they’d fall flat on their faces.
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September 30, 2006 - 3:47 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
For the first time ever, the U.S. Postal Service is now negotiating new contracts with all four of its unions at the same time. This is an extraordinary opportunity for USPS to get its costs under control — especially considering that stamp prices just climbed to 39 cents, and USPS has already requested another increase to 42 cents, which will probably take effect next year.
So what, exactly, is driving prices upward?
Labor.
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September 19, 2006 - 3:15 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
Wall Street Journal
Septebmer 19, 2003
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney boasted recently that the union consortium intended to pour millions of dollars into this year’s Congressional elections — hardly a shocker. What is news is that this year, for the first time, rank-and-file union members are getting a look at precisely how much of their mandatory dues money is going to fund Mr. Sweeney’s political causes, and plenty of other interesting details as well.
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September 16, 2006 - 5:40 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
SORRY RECORD
“(Teamster President James) Hoffa has a record to run on and it is a record of very weak contracts, the first pension cuts in the history of our union and the biggest dues increase in the history of our union that happened without a membership vote.”
- Tom Leedham, who is challenging Hoffa for the union boss’s seat in November, Associated Press, 9/12/06
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September 9, 2006 - 5:54 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
TEAMING UP WITH THE TEAMSTERS
“Teamsters officials looking to unionize employees at the Santa Barbara News-Press organized a small group of dissident employees that ‘engaged in an intimidating and disruptive demonstration by proceeding en masse through the paper’s offices during business hours,’ according to a September 5 statement by the newspaper. As was the goal, the protest ‘intimidated, frightened and interfered with other workers.’
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September 8, 2006 - 4:39 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
Big labor seeks to undermine cherished American tradition
Las Vegas Review Journal editorial
September 7, 2006
The only growth area for American organized labor in recent decades has been among government agencies, where the increased costs imposed by unionization can be easily passed on to the “customers” without concerns about losing market share to the competition … since government agencies allow no competition.
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September 5, 2006 - 3:06 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
“Review & Outlook”
Wall Street Journal
September 5, 2006; Page A24
Labor Day may be over, but organized labor’s biggest day is coming up — November 7, when it hopes to restore Democratic control of Congress and spur its big new effort to ease union formation.
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September 4, 2006 - 10:49 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
TAKING ON THE UNIONS
Our friends at the Evergreen Freedom Foundation have produced a funny new web-video highlighting the difference between the public face the teachers puts on for public consumption and their real nature of their extortion racket. Check it out here…
In related news, our friends over at the Center for Union Facts are taking on the all-powerful public workers unions with a new ad campaign.
“On August 16 the Center for Union Facts launched profiles of public employee unionization for every state in the nation, and everyone’s talking about it,” CUF noted in an August 25 release. “Media outlets in California, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Texas have all run stories covering our new campaign to publicize just how much public-sector union bosses have cost taxpayers.
View this new commercial and all of CUF’s print and electronic ads here…
And last, but certainly not least, the College Republicans ain’t afraid of no unions. They’ve spent the summer dedicating a lot of their time and effort to doing combat on the political ground with organized labor. Check ’em out here…
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