Oct 8, 2012 – As tensions continue to rise in the Middle East, so does the price of oil and concerns that energy supplies from the region may be … Russia supplies almost a quarter of the gas consumed by the EU, with 80% of it flowing through pipes in Ukraine.  … The heated situation most recently led to the jailing of Ukraine’s former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. …

Jan 9, 2012 – Bush’s expansion of the welfare state. … committed to scaling back the welfare state or the nanny state. … to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.…

Jan 9, 2012 – The Biggest Mistake of the Worst Debate 6. … Bush’s expansion of the welfare state. … committed to scaling back the welfare state or the nanny state.…

Jan 7, 2012 – This brings the total of unionized ObamaCare waiver recipients to over 50% of the total recipients. … Since the political backlash over the amount of union waivers began last year, in June, the Obama administration announced an early … This made this round of waivers the last before the major provisions of ObamaCare kick in and, more importantly to the White House,…

Jan 6, 2012 – It’s likely the 2012 race for the White House won’t even be the most important contest of this year, much less of all time. … The reality is that Scott Walker has already passed more significant reforms in a hostile state in one year than most of the current … No one in the current field can claim to have accomplished these things in a liberal state during the middle of this recession.…

Jan 6, 2012 – Last April, after months of laying siege to the Wisconsin capitol building, unions poured $4.5 million into the state to unseat Wisconsin … [snip] The gentlemen all share a common affiliation with the Service Employee International Union. … As the SEIU’s now-famous shirt notes, the SEIU “make[s] politics work.”…

Jan 6, 2012 – Bush’s expansion of the welfare state. … committed to scaling back the welfare state or the nanny state. … to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.…

Feb 27, 2013 – I of the Missouri Constitution, shall be guilty of a class D felony. … A month into the state Legislature’s session, hearings on bills that aim to make Missouri the latest right-to-work state have been … state would be able to cast off the dark cloud of forced unionism to better compete for jobs. ________________________ “Truth isn’…

Feb 26, 2013 – workers the freedom to opt out of paying union dues. … Questioned about workplace freedom after the topic came up at the group’s February 19 “State of the Worker” press conference, We Are … We Are Ohio intentionally scheduled this press conference before the governor’s State of the State address to capture maximum media…

Mar 11, 2013 – The behavior of the Republicans majority leadership in the House reminds me of the last paragraph in Animal Farm.  … McCarthy on CNN’s “State of the Union.” … Congressman Matt Salmon, a veteran of the class of ’94, is leading the way.…

Mar 8, 2013 – get themselves, it’s Friday and here are your Union Briefs… The Politics of Victimology: SEIU claims future market-based wages will … for those jobs, but the proposal would disproportionately affect the earning power of women and minorities, union officials told city … But perhaps the biggest blow to the AEA came last week when the state legislature passed the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013, which…

Mar 7, 2013 – Court of Appeals for the D.C. … At publication, SEA – a local of the Ohio Education Association (OEA) – remains on strike, as the teachers union has been since March … But the United Auto Workers is reminding the company that the union may go to the ends of the earth itself in its long-term attempt…

Mar 6, 2013 – The Congress that passed the Wagner Act of 1935 contemplated a board of “impartial government employees.” … the union began an expected strike after eleventh-hour talks at the end of months of contract negotiations fell through in late February … Purple People Eaters: SEIU continues plan to strike Univ. of Illinois The local chapter of the Service Employees International Union…

Mar 5, 2013 – The governments of what we typically refer to as The West are following a set of economic policies and a set of immigration policies … to keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina … Some of the uglier parts of his agenda follow below. The ideals sync up nicely with Woodrow Wilson’s Progressive buddies D.W.…

Mar 5, 2013 – Unlike the unions featured, today’s edition of Union Briefs is not directly or indirectly subsidized through your tax dollars. … pay in the event of a furlough.” … Teachers say union cheated on first test of Michigan Right-to-Work law Three Michigan school teachers allege the union representing…

Mar 4, 2013 – the Left to turn the “red” state of Colorado “blue” within a short period of time–two election cycles. … When looking at the great state of Texas, with 38 electoral college votes, it is one of the last big strongholds of Republican dominance … Georgia is also on the Left’s radar screen: Democrats are adopting a strategy to retake the state in 2018, leaving control of the…

Mar 3, 2013 – Here are just a few “briefs” of union-related news buzzing around the internet from the last several days: AFL-CIO’s boss admits union … The boycott is just one of the many tactics being deployed by the UNITE-HERE union as it tries to recruit new dues payers at various … These are employees whose official job is to handle internal NLRB union activities exclusively, rather than carrying out any of the…

Mar 3, 2013 – Such was case when Barack Obama, during his State of the Union speech, declared that he wanted to raise the minimum wage to raise the … In some cases, compression (or inequity) increases the risk of a fight or flee phenomonon–disgruntlement culminating in union organizing … campaigns or, in the case of flee, higher turnover as the result of employees quitting.…

Mar 2, 2013 – comment period, after which the State Department will issue a final environmental report before Secretary of State John Kerry makes … In spite of the President’s State of the Union rhetoric, we had already begun to notice significant foot-dragging from Federal agencies … Bobby Jindal is proposing the elimination of 25 state boards, most of which are inactive or could be integrated into other state operations…

Mar 19, 2013 – SEA recently resumed its earlier practice of holding protests outside the homes of school board members, who the union claims are pushing … the state and Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the less there is to like. … with the National Federation of Nurses union.…

Mar 18, 2013 – In Friday’s edition of Union Briefs, you were provided with a compilation of the problems surrounding Barack Obama’s then-purported … David Vitter announced his commitment to block the nomination of Thomas Perez as Secretary of the Labor Department until the Department … of the law – the side that specifically benefits the politics of the president and his administration at the expense of identity security…

Mar 17, 2013 – You can watch the video of the speech here. Sen. Cruz began by responding to Sen. … , as well as Article VI of the Constitution. … And yet there was my father, sitting in the gallery, looking down as I took the oath of office.”…

Mar 16, 2013 – The New York state budget currently under negotiation may be remembered years from now as the beginning of the end for many small towns … PPS: Lest you think that I’m ignoring the NY GOP’s role in all of this… I’m not. … I’m from the Northeast myself, but goodness gracious: most of the state parties (on both sides) are fairly useless……

Mar 15, 2013 – Now that Solis is gone, the Obama Administration has floated the name of a replacement and his name is Thomas Perez. … next Secretary of the Department of Labor. … The validity of all board decisions made since the so-called recess appointments hangs on legal wrangling, but in the meantime, at…

Mar 14, 2013 – Unsurprisingly, public sector labor unions, who receive union dues from the state liquor store workers, have opposed this plan. … But a recent poll (conducted by FM3) found more than 3 out of 5 Pennsylvania voters support privatizing the 80-year-old state store … his actions and those of the other protesters were justified.…