http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport Just another RedState: Where the VRWC Conspires Online weblog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:00:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last weekend, when the Union of Purple People Eaters' (aka the SEIU) picked a fight with a lone Eagle scout, little did it know that a firestorm would ensue. Apparently, the Purple People Eaters bit off more than they could chew: Allentown union official Nick Balzano has been a political punching bag all ... http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2009/11/21/seiu-loses-fight-with-boy-scouts/ Senator Harry Reid may be opening his Plan to Nationalize Health Care to debate on Saturday. We just received an e-mail that links to a GOP Take Action Now page, specifying nine "potential flip-floppers in the Senate - members who would vote for Health Care bill cloture before they vote against ... http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2009/11/20/take-action-senators-youre-either-with-us-or-youre-with-the-union-bosses-you-cant-have-it-both-ways/ Every now and then (actually, quite often these days) today's union bosses will do something that leaves one to wonder: Are union bosses really that moronic?  Some cases in point: Trying to deny workers the right to vote in a secret-ballot election on whether or not to unionize; Treading on an American citizen for passing ... http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2009/11/20/have-shopping-cart-will-picket-unions-rent-homeless-for-picket-duty/ The Purple People Eaters' union (aka the SEIU), one of the main pushers of nationalized health care, denying secret-ballot votes on unionization, and amnesty for illegal aliens participated in a big town hall on Wednesday to push for "a pathway to citizenship for the 12 million undocumented people currently living in ... http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2009/11/19/let-your-fingers-do-the-talking-seiu-has-60000-at-pro-amnesty-parties/ Following our earlier post (based on a New York Times article) about union organizers who exposed the outrageous psychological warfare tactic known as "pink sheeting" that used on workers and themselves, ACORN's former Chief Organizer Wade Rathke posted the following on his blog: Now in one of the rare articles we have ... http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2009/11/19/update-acorns-former-chief-organizer-comments-on-unions-pink-sheeting-practices/ At a time when union bosses are desperately attempting to appear to be on the "up and up" in order to convince lawmakers to pass the delusionally-dubbed Employee Free Choice Act, the New York Times has published an article about the dirty (and what many would likely consider unethical) tactics ... http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2009/11/19/outrageous-union-organizers-expose-psychological-warfare-used-on-workersand-themselves/ The Lavender Lapeled Lord of Labor, Andy Stern (the boss of the Purple People Eaters Union aka the Service Employees International Union [or SEIU, for short]) is hinting that the job-destroying union bailout bill known as the oxy-moronically named Employee Free Choice Act may be rigor mortis in the making. According ... http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2009/11/18/seius-stern-on-union-bailout-bill-its-now-2010-or-never/ Like the Borg on Star Trek, the Purple People Eaters Union, otherwise known as the Service Employees International Union (or SEIU) has much to gain with the nationalization of America's health care. As guest columnist Kevin Troutman noted on Friday in the Houston Chronicle: The House resolution establishes a scenario that would ... http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2009/11/16/the-seius-evil-health-care-empire/ 2008 was a good year for the bosses of Sheet Metal Workers Local 73 in Chicago. In fact, according to reports on file with the U.S. Department of Labor, Local 73 took in $13.5 million in 2008. The problem is, however, the Local spent $13.9 million. Now, as the union's coffers run ... http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2009/11/16/as-union-bosses-spend-money-its-the-members-who-are-told-to-pay/ Just when you thought the Purple People Eating union known as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and their thug-like tactics couldn't sink any lower comes this story from Allentown, Pennsylvania. In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over ... http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2009/11/15/unbelievable-seiu-bullies-eagle-scout/