Card Check

    The Secret Plan to Defeat the Right Forever

    By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  August 13th at 04:45 PM  | 

    Tomorrow, Pittsburgh is going to be home to thousands of political activists from both sides of the aisle. (Although if you watch cable news you would think it was only the left.) Netroots Nation and RightOnline are both in town for their annual events. And although there will probably be little if any crossover traffic, there is certain to be crossover content. Take, for example, | Read More »

    The Real Mob

    By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  August 6th at 07:25 PM  | 

    “Rather than doing what they were elected to do — safeguarding wages and benefits for union members — they took cash and other bribes to turn a blind eye on contractors’ schemes to cheat the rank and file” As Swamp Yankee noted earlier today, the AFL-CIO is going all-in on the healthcare debate. Their plan, in their own words, is to “organize major union participation | Read More »

    Intimidation.

    By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  July 23rd at 06:30 PM  | 

    Last week, the New York Times reported that the inaptly named “Employee Free Choice Act” was losing the most controversial and highest-profile provision: card check. Card check legislation, contrary to the title of the act, would take away fair choice for employees by doing away with the secret ballot, opening workers to intimidation from both the unions and the employers. As has been belabored at | Read More »