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Obama, Sec. of Labor to Appear by AFL-CIO Prez at Labor Day Rally

Aug31
 

It’s been announced that President Obama will be attending the AFL-CIO’s Labor Day rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin next month. Along for the ride will be Sec. of Labor Hilda Solis.
This is one more effort of the Obama administration to shore up Big Labor’s support coming [...]

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The Labor Movement, Obama’s Friend or Foe in November?

Aug4
 

-By Kelly Chernenkoff, FoxNews.com
(Note: To echo what I posted earlier today, here is an editorial on Trumka’s urging of his membership to vote Democrat in November.)
The AFL-CIO, a stalwart Democratic ally, is gearing up its forces for battle in November to steadfastly support President Obama’s [...]

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Speaker of House Recommits to Card Check

Jul30
 

Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, recently appeared before the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and reaffirmed that she wants to push the woefully misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), or card check, through the upcoming lame duck session of Congress.

This legislation [...]

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SEIU Thugs Terrorize Teenage Boy

May20
 

Nice work, SEIU. Service Employee International Union members descended upon the home of a banker to protest the banker’s work. The banker wasn’t home but his teenage son was and he was home alone and the 14 bus loads of union thugs scared the heck [...]

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Kaus: Unions, America’s Lead Weight

May3
 

As we mentioned not long ago, long-time lefty columnist and blogger Mickey Kaus is running against Barbara Boxer for the Senate in California. In one of those cases of politics making strange bedfellows, Kaus has taken a position that we here at the blog heartily [...]

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