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Union fatcat alert… AmSpec: Lifestyles of the Rich and Unionized The San Francisco Bay Area is home to some of most wealthy retirees … When Mosher hesitated, suspicion grew, said Frank Bragg, a state representative for the United Steelworkers International Union. … Relatedly… The Union Tax: How Unions Kill Jobs The Myth of Union Job Security Chicago Traffic Alert: This afternoon: Teachers…

This week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on same California’s Prop 8 and a section of the Defense of Marriage Act which … In suing over “marriage” itself one is demanding that God change His definition of the union between a man and a woman. … influence of the church.…

, Local 369 of the International Union of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (AFSCME). … Budget Boosters: New York state unions’ deficit reduction furloughs are ending… Remember the furlough in the public sector union … Secretary of Labor “During his time as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department…

The kids these days on the right are full of a great libertarian notion that “hey, let’s just get the government out of marriage.” … What they ignore is that the left will never take marriage out of the hands of the government. The left cannot. … Let’s ignore, for the sake of this post, that the Democracy of the Dead has settled for us that in society marriage should be between…

AFSCME.TV: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Since the beginning of the year, AFSCME has been at the forefront of the fight to pass … Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona and a member of the group, said that the business-labor portion of the legislation was proving … (“MOU”) with the Consulate of Mexico to assist Mexican workers in the US in the area of employment discrimination.…

question of whether it has a legal quorum to act is resolved by the Supreme Court. … Isn’t one of the benefits of locating in the South that company leaders can generally avoid union organization? … If the plant does create some sort of hybrid labor organization, will that hinder the potential for local expansion or access to state…

My friend Ben Domenech has a must read post on the passing of Margaret Thatcher. … Like in the United States, the left was on the rise, Soviets were on the march, and people began to accept the decline of their nation … Today, we’re at the point again, but instead of Soviets, we have the Chicoms.As Domenech writes, “Ted Heath, the Mitch McConnell of…

at the disposal of state agents.” … Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, 1915 Union bosses may soon be facing a labor relations climate … At times, The State would be for “the working man” and, at other times, the state would be against “the working man.”…

RedState may seem like an odd place to write about the death of a union activist. … As a result, his forthright criticism of the union establishment caused him to be a constant pain in the backside of the cigar-chomping … During the months of researching the decline of the union movement, for a young idealist discovering of the depths of the deception…

that advocates for the repeal of the health-care law. … The exercise of compulsive power drains away the resource of liberty.   … Good intentions do not change the nature of the means used by the State to obtain the “free” benefits it dispenses.…

Given the importance and sensitivity of this venture, maybe the eight leading lights of the US Senate putting together a grand strategy … “The plan of the Gang of Eight appears to be legalization, or amnesty first, and then enforcement. … opinion of the consular officer at the time of application for a visa, or in the opinion of the Attorney General at the time of application…

Alarms are being sounded, but it’s tough to hear them through thick earmuffs of ideology: Obama pledged in his State of the Union … The administration’s efforts come in the midst of a housing market that has been surging for the past year but that has been delivering … This talk of jump-starting the housing recovery by flooding the market with easy loan money is putting the cart before the recovery…

So, even though right-to-work was passed with the intent of giving employees the freedom to choose whether or not to support a union … to continued financial support of the union until 2023, while also facing a 10 percent pay cut. … They believe the union security clause is illegal for a couple of reasons: They argue Michigan law prohibits such an agreement from…

One of the great rhetorical successes of the same-sex marriage crusade was the term “marriage equality,” which is extremely effective … The core question of the marriage debate is whether the number and sex of the participants is essential. … If marriage is, by definition, the union of a man and a woman, there is no “equality” issue to be debated.  …

She even went on use the threat of further violence around the country to try and extort action of some sort out of the White House … The difference is, the black racism of today is part of the liberal & media fiction that the state of black America is the result of … If the so called black leaders of today were really concerned with the state of black America, and young men like Trayvon while they…

American Airlines and US Airways–the Transport Workers Union and the International Association of Machinists, respectively. … The chairman, Linda Puchala, is former the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO and Staff Director … Both the TWU and the Machinists are part of the AFL-CIO–the same union federation that both of the NMB’s board members hail from.…

So many people are blamed for the current state of Detroit. But most of what you read is patently illogical. … If you read the left, it’s all the fault of Redneck Rick Perry and other Southern-Fried Governors stealing all the good union jobs. … So instead of the blacks and the banksters; I blame the LLC for the slow-motion nuking of Detroit.…

Dear Red State community – the following OpEd ran in the Times-News of Twin Falls, Idaho on Sunday, and I thought I’d share it with … But on the floor of the House of Representatives, Simpson has defended the existence of the EPA, saying “We can’t just do away with … Chris Chocola is the President of the Club for Growth.…

, or contracting against those who believe marriage is the union of a man and a woman. … The Eye of Sauron Is the Modern Surveillance State Continuing the theme of referencing articles from sites that normally don’t sympathize … It saddens me to see the downhill slide of bookstores, with the shuttering of Borders and the endangered state of B&N.…

Originally included as part of the 1959 Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act during the crackdown on corrupt unions, the LMRDA … Under the threat of criminal penalty for willful failure to file the required reports, the interpretation of this provision has always … the employer and the consultant would be branded criminals if they willfully did not file reports with the Department of Labor.…

The state of California has moved forward with legislation to mimic the Massachusetts rules. … fly in the face of the established natural order. … Marriage is, by definition, the union of a man and a woman.…

At one point, his district covered much of the northwest and middle west parts of the state in a configuration that allowed his district … candidates in the race, she is the only one to have won a statewide race — Secretary of State. … There is a band of long time Republican gurus and donors in the state unhappy with the field.…

His comments came during a how-to session highlighting the recent passage of a right-to-work law in the historically unionized state … the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any State … Using union dues and protests, union bosses, to be sure, will be opposing Right-to-Work laws every step of the way. _______________…

the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. … were to seize power right now, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. … As the Air Force was fond of saying during the Vietnam era: if you want to send a message use Western Union.        …

Where the left can’t co-opt it seeks to harness the coercive power of the state to do its bidding. … The Progressive States Network (PSN), National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Council of State Governments (CSG) and National … of the National Taxpayers Union and a former ALEC official.…