Mar 30, 2011 – Meanwhile, in Indiana the final vote on HB 1216 was 54-44: this reform bill will raise the threshold for union payscales for public … Entertainingly, this was one of the ostensible reasons that Indiana state representatives hid in Illinois for a month.  … And, of course, a few days ago the Florida state House passed HB 1021, which bans the automatic collection of public sector union dues…

Mar 30, 2011 – Here’s what the chairmen of the 9/11 Commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, told the Senate on the matter: The inability of first … In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for allocating the D block spectrum to public safety. … Nothing is stopping us from giving the D block out to state and local governments to apply the lessons of 9/11.…

Mar 30, 2011 – “It’s going on in other parts of the state,” he said Wednesday. … Parrett referred questions to Marty Beil, the head of the Wisconsin State Employees Union. … In recent past weeks you have been offered a sign by a public employee who works in one of the state facilities in the Union Grove…

Mar 29, 2011 – During the audio, Lerner was introduced as being “of SEIU.” … Stephen Lerner serves on the Service Employees International Union’s International Executive Board and is the architect of the Justice … and others”), Lerner pitches into his vision of the future.…

Mar 29, 2011 – for the rest of the fiscal year, Mr. … Schumer told them to portray John Boehner of Ohio, the Speaker of the House, as painted into a box by the Tea Party, and to decry the … Let’s keep score of the current political dynamic and ascertain the nature of genuine extremism.…

Mar 29, 2011 – As you are undoubtedly aware, Wisconsin has become one of the primary battlefields for labor union reform: having lost at the ballot … Democrats is pouring in; the Republican state senators affected are going to need all the help that they can get.  … The Republican Party of Wisconsin has set a site called Frontline Wisconsin to help fund whatever races occur: the money goes directly…

Mar 28, 2011 – The four-mile march through the streets of Greenfield, led by UFW President Arturo Rodriguez, commemorates the life and legacy of Chavez … Since card check is the union bosses’ preferred method (over secret-ballot elections) of getting new members, assuming this passes … As part of the response, the employer shall provide a complete and accurate list of the full names, current street addresses, job classifications…

Mar 28, 2011 – Given the many of the asinine rulings coming from the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board, it is becoming impossible to … Nevertheless, there is a sense of duty to bring you the latest example of the tail wagging the dog. … Here’s the summary of the case that spans nearly 15 years: A Las Vegas casino contracted with a non-union, third-party contractor…

Mar 28, 2011 – Today’s joint appearance on Meet the Press by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was just one … getting killed because of the fecklessness of the Obama Administration. … Union leaders were not displeased. Please click here for the rest of the post. 7.…

Mar 27, 2011 – Case in point is the case of University of Wisconsin professor William Cronon, recently elected president of the American Historical … them is the function of a conspiracy. … We are making this request under Chapter 19.32 of the Wisconsin state statutes, through the Open Records law.…

Mar 27, 2011 – The measure, pushed by 9to5, as well as a “multi-state consortium” of unions and other left-wing activist groups, was passed in 2008 … A historic decision by the Wisconsin State Court of Appeals yesterday to uphold a Milwaukee city law that provides paid sick days to … In Philadelphia, a paid sick days bill was passed out of a City Council committee a few weeks ago, and in Connecticut, the state legislature…

Mar 26, 2011 – However, the way they’ve been prattling on of late about so-called “rights,” you’d think union bosses would be filling up the buses … to the union. … “The political reality is, to a large extent, defined by the state of the economy,” said APFA President Laura Glading in a statement…

Mar 25, 2011 – One of the big unspoken fights in Wisconsin over these past few weeks has been Scott Walker’s proposal for the state to stop collecting … union dues for the unions. … Of course, union bought Democrats in Florida (though they haven’t fled the state…yet) are fuming.…

Mar 25, 2011 – The bill passed 74-40, despite the rather strenuous objections of Big Labor: a similar bill (SB 830) is making its way through the … The success of HB 1021 should help with the success of SB 830, which has been fought every step of the way, naturally; the Democratic-Big … Should the bill make it to the state Senate floor, it should pass relatively easily – both branches of the Florida legislature are…

Mar 24, 2011 – Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the United Auto Workers’ Bob King thinks he’s just the union boss to make a go of … According to another longtime union operative now with the UAW, this will be one of the largest progressive union putsches in the history … of progressive union putsches: The UAW has hired Richard Bensinger, the former head of the AFL-CIO’s organizing institute and a…

Mar 24, 2011 – So the top story this week is going to be the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile USA. … I’d have attended The US Chamber of Commerce’s Restoring Balance to the Regulatory Process seminar, but I’m on the other side of the … Bad Patent of the Day: Google patents the Google Doodle, as though they were the first company ever to do specialized versions of a…

Mar 23, 2011 – The only way to achieve their goals, therefore–the redistribution of wealth and the return of “$17 trillion” stolen from the middle … banks to the edge of insolvency and forcing them to renegotiate the terms of the loans. … The second thing that sticks in the craw of SEIU leadership is the rather conspicuous absence of President Obama on Wisconsin and the…

Mar 23, 2011 – Are Union-Bought Democrats Rushing to the Aid of the Union-Controlled NLRB? 4. Sen. … One example of where the foolish fallacy has led to misery, involves the current state of the Pell Grant Program.US Senator Claiborne … Please click here for the rest of the post. 3. Are Union-Bought Democrats Rushing to the Aid of the Union-Controlled NLRB?…

Apr 8, 2011 – Given the recent history of polling fraud on the left, and the obvious potential for bias when a pollster associated with the far left … in the state. … of Democrat control of the US House of Representatives, and the RGA Chairman who led a number of Republicans, including union fatcats…

Apr 7, 2011 – This is, perhaps, one of the reasons the local membership is up in arms over the alleged financial improprieties of a number of the … But the DOL, unlike the union, has the power to subpoena records. [Emphasis added.] … The National union has a number of concerns and has made requests and suggestions.…

Apr 6, 2011 – The once-golden state of California has devolved so much in its budgetary talks that its recycled governor, Jerry Brown has taken to … union said reached thousands of employees. … Yvonne Walker, president of SEIU Local 1000, said the union’s membership is 30 percent Republican, and she told Brown, “We take a lot…

Apr 5, 2011 – State Democrats fled the state. … The Milwaukee newspaper obtained e-mails from the office of Senate Democratic Leader Mark Miller. … And Blaine Rummel of AFSCME – the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees – gave talking points to Miller’s office…

Apr 5, 2011 – to shrink the federal government since the birth of the welfare state seven decades ago.”Hyperbole much? … , the loss of their union dues). … and bullying businesses, union bosses are using the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King to stage nationwide demonstrations…

Apr 4, 2011 – , the loss of their union dues). … businesses, union bosses are using the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King to stage nationwide demonstrations of … In 2010, the Pew Center on the States released a report that spelled out the underfunding of state pensions and, as importantly, retiree…

Apr 2, 2011 – The number of state public employees has since fallen to 28,700 from 35,000. … But more important, the vast majority of those employees stopped paying union dues. … This is the nasty modern reality of government union power.…