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© 2011 The Union Label Blog & Grassfire Nation
-By David Martosko
On Friday a liberal political action committee whose top funders include three labor unions, the financier husband of a Democratic Maine congresswoman, and billionaire George Soros, announced the “second wave” of an ad blitz targeting House Republicans whose seats it considers “some of the most vulnerable” in 2012.
A statement from House Majority PAC, a so-called Super PAC that can accept unlimited contributions, says a six-figure ‘August offensive’ television ad campaign will target Republican Reps. Dan Lungren of California and Sean Duffy of Wisconsin.
Rep. Duffy is a House freshman. Lungren has been a House member since 2005, and served five previous terms from 1979 to 1989.
House Majority PAC’s Federal Election Commission filings show that it has already spent more than $82,000 this month on similar ads targeting Republican Reps. Tim Griffin of Arkansas, Scott Tipton of Colorado and Chip Cravaack of Minnesota. The PAC has spent nearly $825,000 overall campaigning against Republican House members since April…
Read the rest at The Daily Caller.
-By Warner Todd Huston
Apparently unions don’t even respect the dead. In Chicago, union thugs are defacing funereal homes over a contract dispute. Yeah. Property damage. That sure is a legitimate way to go about business, isn’t it? Good thing some of the people in those businesses are already dead or they’d have something to fear from the union thugs, too.
Naturally, the perpetrators are the Teamsters, Local 727. No surprise that it’s the Teamsters, either. These thugs have a long, long history of violence.
The contract for 16 embalmers, drivers, and funeral directors ran out with the Alderwoods funeral home chain on June 30. Unsurprisingly, the businesses were defaced by the unionists.
The Chicago Sun Times recently reported that Company spokeswoman Jessica McDunn said, “Three of those four funeral homes were vandalized…with vulgar profanity, broken windows, damage to the front door and damage to an associates’s car.”
Shockingly, the union went all wide-eyed and denied any knowledge of the vandalism.
“We certainly don’t condone that kind of behavior,” union creep Maggie Jenkins said feigning innocence.
The union thugs whine that the funeral home owners are “negotiating in bad faith.”
Teamsters Local 727, which represents 16 Alderwoods embalmers, drivers and funeral directors, had been negotiating with the company that owns the homes after their labor contract expired June 30. The union complained that the other side had bargained in bad faith and had “…proposed a three-year wage freeze and a company health care package that is more expensive and less comprehensive than the union’s health and welfare benefits,” reports the Chicago Sun-Times. And so the Teamsters targeted four funeral homes for strike.
In the end, who cares what these unionistas say when they are willing to act like criminals? This is why unions are illegitimate. This is why unions are un-American not to mention uncivilized.
What makes these creeps any better than the Phelps crew at the Westboro Baptist Church?
Last year Bankrupting America released a video called “Real or Fake” that quizzed citizens on whether crazy-sounding government spending examples were, well, real or fake. The answers, unfortunately, weren’t good news for taxpayers.
Since that video, the federal government has continued to spend at a rapid and clearly unsustainable rate. And as it turns out, the government is still funding some pretty ridiculous projects. So we decided to make a sequel.
Watch Real or Fake, part 2 below. Play along with the participants, the answers may surprise you.
-By Keith Laing
A conservative legal watchdog group has sued the National Labor Relations Board for documents related to its case against airplane manufacturer Boeing that the panel has been hesitant to release.
Washington-based Judicial Watch announced Tuesday that it was filing the suit under the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The group said it submitted a FOIA request to the NLRB last month and has not received the documents.
Judicial Watch, like Republican critics of the lawsuit in Congress, argues that the NLRB’s case against Boeing is politically motivated. ..
Read the rest at The Hill.
-By Larry Sand
Despite good intentions, efforts to reform teachers unions and make them partners in education reform will not work.
Last week, the typically sane and sage Andrew Rotherham wrote a provocative article for Time Magazine entitled “Quiet Riot: Insurgents Take On Teachers Unions.” The main thrust of the piece is this:
“But perhaps the biggest strategic pressure for reform is starting to come from teachers themselves, many of whom are trying to change their unions and, by extension, their profession. These renegade groups, composed generally of younger teachers, are trying to accomplish what a generation of education reformers, activists and think tanks have not: forcing the unions to genuinely mend their ways.”
He spotlights three organizations he claims are leading a movement to reform teachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to “engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.”
In addition, Steven Brill (whose new book Class Warfare has received much acclaim) wrote “Super Teachers Alone Can’t Save Our Schools,” a provocative article in the Wall Street Journal this past Saturday. As the article’s title implies, teachers need help. But from whom? After describing the burnout of a young assistant principal at a charter school in Harlem, he says, Continue reading »
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Warner Todd Huston