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  1. Who Is Scaring Californians Away From Signing Petitions For Ballot Initiatives? https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/07/29/who-is-behi…ns-away-from-signing-petitions-for-ballot-initiatives-n39866
    A spokeswoman for the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center disputed the premise of the ad. … The union has sent members a toll-free number to report canvassers circulating petitions for the measure, urging them to dial in “if … of the story” before signing the petitions.…
  2. Dem official pleads guilty in NY election fraud investigation https://redstate.com/soren_dayton/2011/07/26/dem-official-pleads-guilty-in-ny-election-fraud-investigation-n39815
    He was appointed to the clerk’s position by the City Council when Democrats took control of the Troy council in January 2008. … From the Times Union: For the McDonoughs, this is the second time in 20 years that a family member has been indicted. … they have evidence that McDonough delivered a bundle of forged WFP absentee ballots to McInerney on the eve of the 2009 primary election…
  3. AFSCME's War on Workers & Taxpayers: A Look Inside The AFSCME Playbook https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/07/26/afscmes-war…n-workers-taxpayers-a-look-inside-the-afscme-playbook-n39808
    Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), stated “the more members coming in, the more dues coming in, the more … money we have for politics,” it was symbolic of a system corrupted by union bosses who enrich themselves at the expense of America … If an entire local union or group of locals meets the criteria for success and the resources exist to run the campaign, that’s great…
  4. Obama Calls For Bi-Partisanship As OFA Barnstorms Wisconsin On GOP Recalls https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/07/23/obama-calls…rtisanship-as-ofa-barnstorms-wisconsin-on-gop-recalls-n39774
    On its main page this weekend, the Obama campaign website, barackobama.com, is featuring a video of the President calling for a bi-partisan … have failed to serve the needs of Wisconsin’s hard-working families. … Since then, hundreds of OFA Wisconsin supporters across the state have spoken up, saying they want to have an impact in the recall…
  5. Democrats Threaten FAA Shutdown Over Rural Pork https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/07/22/democrats-threaten-faa-shutdown-over-rural-pork-n39753
    The Democrats in the Senate are obdurately refusing to pass either a short-term or long-term extension of the FAA reauthorization, … One of those airports, White Pine County Airport in Ely, Nevada, enjoys a subsidy to the tune of $3,720 per passenger!  … a few hundred people, shouldn’t we be willing to go to the brink for the future of our entire nation?…
  6. Tensions Escalate in Washington Port Union Battle Over Jobs https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/07/20/tensions-escalate-in-washington-port-union-battle-over-jobs-n39730
    To say that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union is a militant union would be something of an understatement. … the company’s apparent intention to employ non-union labor for the 50 jobs: “We have been left out of the loop. … Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21 stormed the terminal to protest EGT’s use of non-union labor to handle grain in the testing…
  7. Axis of Evil?* NJ Government Unions Unite Against Chris Christie and Taxpayers https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/08/02/axis-of-evi…ent-unions-unite-against-chris-christie-and-taxpayers-n39908
    Jersey’s largest government union, where the property taxes are the highest in the nation, and where the state faces a $10+ billion … The suit would be on behalf of at least 500,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers and other state and local workers. … Of course, if the unions prevail in their joint assault, it will be the taxpayers of New Jersey that are left footing the bill.…
  8. What a Shocker! Unions Are Behind Scaring Californians From Signing Ballot Petitions https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/07/30/what-a-shoc…nd-scaring-californians-from-signing-ballot-petitions-n39879
    discover that, lo and behold, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California is behind trying to scare voters away … web site registrant, a google search of the phone number revealed the owner to be the State Building & Construction Trades Council … In the meantime, Capitol Alert, the site that originally drew attention to the union astroturf campaign, had also confirmed the unions…
  9. Morning Briefing for August 17, 2011 https://redstate.com/erick/2011/08/17/morning-briefing-for-august-17-2011-n40085
    The Voice of America calls the bus tour a “Three-State Counteroffensive.” … Please click here for the rest of the post. 3. … Ohio Business Owner Shot For Being Non-Union, Police Investigating With around 25 employees, John King owns one of the largest non-union…
  10. Tech at Night: TN's Haslam wants CA's job killer tax, Al Franken too extreme for MN, Astroturf hits the FCC, Google roundup https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2011/08/16/tech-at-night-t…extreme-for-mn-astroturf-hits-the-fcc-google-roundup-n40062
    And this is a story we’re seeing again and again, up and down the state. … New and higher taxes, even of the unconstitutional variety, kills jobs. … the public at large, with no discrimination of any kind, forever?…
  11. Building Trades Unions to Boycott 2012 DNC Convention https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/08/12/building-trades-unions-to-boycott-2012-dnc-convention-n40016
    While the underlying issue of the Charlotte choice may be a union rift playing out between AFL-CIO unions and the C2W union because … their 2.5 million members, will be sitting out of the union-free convention. … rate in the country due to regressive policies aimed at diluting the power of workers,” Mark Ayers, president of the building trades…
  12. Morning Briefing for August 11, 2011 https://redstate.com/erick/2011/08/11/morning-briefing-for-august-11-2011-n40005
    in the union and a total of approximately 550 attendees present for Governor Rick Perry’s speech.To conclude the RedState Gathering … EPA and the State Department, which has jurisdiction due to the international scope of the project. … of the post.…
  13. The RedState Gathering 2011, Charleston, SC https://redstate.com/erick/2011/08/10/the-redstate-gathering-2011-charleston-sc-n39998
    in the union and a total of approximately 550 attendees present for Governor Rick Perry’s speech.To conclude the RedState Gathering … Bannon’s The Undefeated.For those of you unfamiliar with the format of the RedState Gathering, all speakers pay their own way and make … Michael Williams, Railroad Commissioner, State of Texas Candidate for the United States Congress 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. Hon.…
  14. Union Posters & Posers: Non-Union* @MMFA likes the NLRB's 'Skirting Congress' https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/08/28/union-poste…sers-non-union-mmfa-likes-the-nlrbs-skirting-congress-n40206
    out the provisions’ of the NLRA.” … However, since MMFA is a union-funded organization (from the likes of AFSCME, the NEA, SEIU and AFL-CIO), it is not at all surprising … *With that in mind, here is a standing offer for those of you non-union staffers at the MMFA: You are hereby offered the opportunity…
  15. Nikki Haley Responds to the NLRB's Mandate to Post Union Notices https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/08/26/nikki-haley-responds-to-the-nlrbs-mandate-to-post-union-notices-n40201
    all S.C. employers to put up another sign: in our state, every worker has the freedom to reject the efforts to form unions and keep … their paychecks for themselves and their families instead of paying dues to union bosses in Washington. … Haley’s response is, no doubt, more eloquently expressed than the responses of most employers’ toward the union psychopaths sycophants…
  16. Rick Perry For President, Y'All https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2011/08/22/rick-perry-for-president-yall-n40138
    He’s the longest-serving Governor in the history of the nation’s second-largest state, a state with a long and disputatious foreign … counted out easily by much of the rest of the country. … , influxes of Californians), heavy union organization in NV, and a pair of especially ineptly run state Republican organizations.…
  17. Morning Briefing for August 22, 2011 https://redstate.com/erick/2011/08/22/morning-briefing-for-august-22-2011-n40130
    the continued failure to produce results, it is no wonder that Burke concluded that ‘under them the state of America has been kept … , saving the union up to $10 million per week out of its union treasury. … Union Ain’t Wanted: The UAW’s Bad Week… Over a year ago, the president of the United Auto Workers, Bob King, announced a campaign…
  18. Russ Feingold (D, NOTHING) cuts and runs. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/08/19/russ-feingold-d-nothing-cuts-and-runs-n40113
    Feingold said he is “thoroughly enjoying the life of a private citizen.” … , and carefully-constructed astroturfing at the state capital by hardcore progressives, union goons, and other shills of the Democratic … party; the endgame was to use that backlash to fuel a backhanded takeover of the Wisconsin state senate, then use that as a springboard…
  19. Netroots blame wrong people for Texas wildfire problems. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/09/07/netroots-blame-wrong-people-for-texas-wildfire-problems-n40317
    fiscal year started at the beginning of this month).  … Turns out that some of the n-dimensional geniuses over on that side of the blogosphere looked at last year’s Forest Service budget … And, of course, the federal government is not precisely rushing to provide assistance to a state that won’t vote for Obama next year…
  20. Morning Briefing for September 6, 2011 https://redstate.com/erick/2011/09/06/morning-briefing-for-september-6-2011-n40294
    Labor Day & The Union Tax: How Unions Kill Jobs 7. The Wadded Panties of Jonathan Capehart 8. … here for the rest of the post. 2. … Let me show you the extent of the problem.Please click here for the rest of the post. 3.…
  21. Labor Day & The Union Tax: How Unions Kill Jobs https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/09/05/labor-day-the-union-tax-how-unions-kill-jobs-n40286
    While much of the commentary often focuses on the shrinking percentage of union members—less than 10% of union-represented workers … In other words, what good is a union if the union eventually drives your company out of business? … Competitive pressures limit the size of the union sector if union compensation premiums are not fully offset by higher productivity…
  22. The New Face of Organized Labor https://redstate.com/bs/2011/09/16/the-new-face-of-organized-labor-n40447
    My suspicion is that Democrat control of the White House and both sides of Capitol Hill has given us an unprecedented view of the reality … Union thuggery has become an everyday event, and videos and stories of the disgusting behavior of union members are rampant. … The most recent incident was that of the f-bombing longshoreman in Washington state.  (Video is definitely NSFW): Lovely.…
  23. We the People: A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/09/16/we-the-people-a-constituional-republic-not-a-democracy-n40442
    Today, we celebrate the 224th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution (September 17 falls out over the weekend … Instead, they have used the soft edge of the sword of elected despotism. … Article 4 section 4 of the Constitution prescribes that “the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican…
  24. With the NV-02 and NY-09 Elections Done, We Need to Turn Our Attention to OR-01 https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2011/09/15/with-the-nv-02-a…elections-done-we-need-to-turn-our-attention-to-or-01-n40431
    The frontrunners for the Democratic nomination are Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, state Sen. Suzanne Bonamici, and state Rep. … As far as the kind of campaigning that will have to be done, given the political leanings of the district, it is likely that whichever … will be minimal, both because of the uphill battle and to help the candidate himself maintain an image of independence.…
  25. Wisconsin Union Hypocrisy: WEAC Accused of Breaking Staff Union Contract https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/09/14/wisconsin-u…pocrisy-weac-accused-of-breaking-staff-union-contract-n40410
    While it occupied Wisconsin’s state capitol, the union that represents many of Wisconsin’s public school teachers, WEAC, demonized … Now, in a story that gets richer with irony by the day, WEAC is being accused by a staff union of breaching the collective bargaining … as the world’s largest union of union staffers, posted an online notice discouraging its members from seeking work with the Wisconsin…