Some RedState readers may be interested in this sort of stuff.
The info below comes from the blogat LaborUnionReport and provides a summary of news stories from around the country:
Here is this week’s list of the most relevant union happenings across the country (and beyond), brought to you in short and “tweet” form (that is 140 characters, more or less):
- EFCA’s Evil Twin. Airlines are under siege as unions want to change the 75-year old process for unionizing airline workers to that of “minority rule.”
- Desperate Steelworkers. On strike for 14 months, Canadian USW threatens to target replacement workers.
- Duking it out. Pratt & Whitney and the Machinists are heading to court over company plans to relocate.
- Rejects? UFCW rejects Safeway and Kroger Colorado contract offers.
- Labor’s Lackey. LA Timeslooks into President Obama’s special special interest.
- The King & Queen’s Communist Love Affair. Romantic Poetwaxes on SEIU’s Stern and Burger and their special relationship with China’s Communist-run trade union.
- UAW & the Downfall of Detroit. Motor City looked at through Time.
- The Cookie Crumbles in the Bronx.Stella D’ Oro workers cling to the last crumb of hope, as the Company calls the union to task.
- Brotherly Love? Andy Says: Say Uncle! as the SEIU takes aim at UNITE-HERE in Philly.
- Purple People Beaters.SEIU’s chronicles of violence, while others are eaten by…
- Purple People Eaters. Illinois governor offers SEIU more bodies to feed their dues habit on.
- Mock Doc Smocks. As some docs came unprepared, SEIU boasts of astroturfer, RedState exposes the ‘disinterested’ docs’ donations and the staged photo-op is still catching heat.
- Public Option Pushers. As unions push for the “public option” (aka nationalized health care), pols fight to keep the health care bill a secret.
- Shrinkage: ACORN’s Nuts in the Cold. Congress cutsas Chief-Nutjob Bertha Lewis fires back, continuing her ‘apology tour,’ while ACORN’s nuts are brilliantly laid bare and the $1 million embezzlement multiplies itself fivefold.
- The Money Pit, a 2010 Trap?Bam Slam: Dollar drop could be Democrats mid-term dream.
- Obama’s SEIU Man. White House political director Patrick Gaspard gets exposed down under.
- No Union Site Turns 30. Visitors of 1-888-No-Union.com hit 30,000 this week.
- None Dare Call it a Strike. SEIU wants state workers to take Monday off(en masse) in the broke state of California.
- Lost at Sea, Ye Mutinous Bilge Rats! Someone pass the rum! Unionized seamen have been floating around on strike for three weeks. Aargh!
And that, mates, is our Labor Shorts #3!
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Victoria Coates
Daniel Horowitz
NIce list of goodies
Joe Rivers (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 1:23PM EST (link)We on the right do not pay near enough attention to what the unions are doing behind the scenes in just about every public matter.
Maquisard
Just one suggestion
Joe Rivers (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 1:36PM EST (link)On those links, maybe put up a “bit.ly” link (or your shortener of choice), because anybody tweeting them will be doing that (maybe).
For example (which by the way I have tweeted):
RT @888nounion Purple People Eaters. Illinois governor offers SEIU more bodies to feed their dues habit on http://bit.ly/37GK7O
None Dare Call it a Strike. SEIU wants state workers to take Monday off(en masse) in the broke state of California. http://bit.ly/2Lu3zS
Maquisard