Mar 13, 2013 – It’s Wednesday, March 13, 2013, and here are your union briefs… NLRB to seek top court review of recess appointments ruling… The … to a resolution in favor of “common sense immigration reform,” at the request of the national AFL-CIO. … The state labor federation is made up of affiliated unions with a combined membership of 104,000, not counting the Working America…

Mar 12, 2013 – elections, Illinois settles a pension problem (sort of), and the SEIU is in Day Two of its strike at the University of Illinois. … AFSCME pension plan targets Hewlett-Packard… Florida State Board of Administration, Tallahassee, and the American Federation of State … Senate campaign on the TV station in the Boston market because of an ongoing contract dispute between that station and some union employees…

Mar 30, 2013 – of the State in which the work is to be performed, or in the District of Columbia if the work is to be performed there. … does not have a pension plan or a health plan that is similar in costs to a union plan (the amount dictated by the Department of Labor … equivalent of what they negotiate into union contracts, in most cases, there will be nothing for them to sell the union-free workers…

Mar 30, 2013 – This reporting is a violation of Vladimir’s First Rule of Oil Spills: The volume of the spill is always reported by the press in gallons … The boom in the Bakken Oil Shale of western North Dakota has greatly increased the volume of crude oil being moved by rail. … the state last year.…

Mar 28, 2013 – David Williams, President of The Taxpayers Protection Alliance said, “We applaud the actions of the local rank and file Teamsters who … The radical leftist leader of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, is known for her rather…er…robust rhetoric. … ’s union is picketing in front of this vital and important project to the City of Saginaw.…

Mar 27, 2013 – “Some of the parts of the bill are commendable, however there a number of things of great concern in this bill,” said Larsen, who has … Johnston claims the bill, the first major school finance act in the state of Colorado since 1994, will help school districts financially … This new formula for the class enrollment count would require the state of Colorado to tweak its current system of counting students…

Mar 27, 2013 – 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…

Mar 26, 2013 – 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.…

Mar 26, 2013 – , 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…

Mar 26, 2013 – 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…

Mar 25, 2013 – 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.…

Mar 22, 2013 – 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…

Apr 9, 2013 – 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…

Apr 6, 2013 – 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.”…

Apr 5, 2013 – 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…

Apr 4, 2013 – 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.…

Apr 4, 2013 – 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…

Apr 3, 2013 – 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…

Apr 1, 2013 – 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…

Apr 1, 2013 – 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.  …

Jul 15, 2013 – 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…

Jul 24, 2013 – 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.…

Jul 22, 2013 – 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.…

Jul 22, 2013 – 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.…

Aug 2, 2013 – , 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.…