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Union Bosses & Their Supporters On Capitol Hill Put The Lame In Lame Duck

Aug29
 

-By Kate Gage
As if Big Labor hasn’t already squeezed enough out of Congress with payoffs upon payoffs, they are now positioning themselves for one last-ditch effort to achieve the mother of all gifts, the job-killing Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act (EFCA).
One of the biggest impediments to [...]

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AFL-CIO and SEIU to Spend Millions on Dems 2010 Election

Aug26
 

Two of America’s largest labor unions have joined forces and have announced a combined $88 million effort to fund Democrats in the upcoming midterm election cycle.
AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka has pledged to put more workers in the field than they did for either 2006 or [...]

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The Arrogance of The Public Employee Union Member

Aug25
 

In a recent story detailing the efforts of 3,000 postal employee union members marching against USPS management in Detroit, one quote by a union member stuck me as wholly emblematic of the arrogance of government employee union members and it shows the disconnect between the [...]

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UAW Joins Push For ‘Green Jobs’

Aug23
 

The United Auto Workers has announced that it will join a coalition of unions called the BlueGreen Alliance in an effort to push “green jobs.”
I was amused by what BlueGreen Alliance founder Leo Gerard said of this addition to the group.

“The American auto industry is [...]

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Obama Trying to Make it Up to Teachers Unions?

Aug22
 

Teachers unions have been mad at the president. Despite that he bends over backwards for unions and has since day one, the teachers still aren’t happy. So, he’s trying what Politico is calling a “truce with teachers.”

In the past few weeks, President Barack Obama delivered [...]

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