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Members of Oregon’s State Employee Unions Get 5% Pay Raises… as Taxpayers Lose Jobs!

Sep2
 

Unbelievable. In Oregon the reg’lar folks are losing their jobs right and left. And the bad luck for those actually paying the bills, the taxpayers, gets even worse because Oregon’s politicians have made sure that the state’s public employees unions get an automatic 5% pay [...]

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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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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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Obama’s Union Bailout: A Good Crisis Going to Waste

Aug20
 

Even the New York Times can’t ignore the fact that Obama’s latest union bailout cash isn’t going to help anyone keep their jobs, and The New York Times is really good at ignoring things that make Democrats look bad.
A few weeks ago Nancy Pelosi [...]

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