In early March, the United Food & Commercial Workers rejected a contract offer from Shaw’s Supermarkets and 300 distribution center workers walked out on strike. Since that time, the strikers have been replaced, the UFCW has collected donations, marched and are futilely trying to boycott Shaw’s. Now, having exhausted its tactics aimed at putting pressure on Shaw’s, the UFCW has resorted to trespassing in order | Read More »
Back in April, Democrat Harry Reid re-introduced another union-payback bill called the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (PSEECA). This union-payback bill is a massive federal takeover of the unionization and collective bargaining processes in all states, counties, and municipalities. Essentially, PSEECA federalizes the unionization of all police, firefighters, as well as EMS workers, irrespective of of their current state laws. As the Heritage Foundation notes: | Read More »
Dear Vice President Biden (can I still call you Joe?): First of all, I want to offer my apologies for writing such a long letter the other night. It was late and, frankly, I just wanted to get some things off my chest. More importantly, however, I feel obligated to tell you that I made a mistake in my letter to you. You see, in | Read More »
It seems the union schemes to get more dues never stop. In Michigan, after AFSCME and the UAW snuck their way into Michigan’s home-based day cares to suck up $3.7 million in dues, the state house is moving to repeat its union coup by dumping self-employed home care contrators–those who provide help to the elderly and disabled–onto a union’s rolls. The beneficiary this time? The | Read More »
Birds of a feather flocking together? You’d almost think they’re singing the same song written by the same speech song writer. In an aol.com puff opinion piece, President Obama’s Labor Secretary Hilda Solis dropped an illogical statement about unemployment benefits: There is no better stimulus than unemployment benefits, as this money quickly flows from those who need help into local economies. .. Say what?!? How | Read More »
It’s not like they didn’t know it was coming in January… A bill currently before the Senate would empower the Obama administration to nationalize the student lending industry, eliminating the federally subsidized private loans millions of university students rely on to finance their educations. Now, however, it’s time to pay the piper (otherwise known as the Law of Unintended Consequences): Powerhouse student loan provider Sallie | Read More »
Barely a week has passed since Sen. Robert Byrd died, but unions (and businesses) in West Virginia are already trying to get Gov. Joe Manchin to appoint himself as Byrd’s replacement. “We just strongly believe that he’s the right person and we would certainly encourage him to reconsider that decision and in fact appoint himself,” said Larry Matheney, the secretary and treasurer of the West | Read More »
Dear Vice President Biden (may I call you Joe?): Friday’s dismal unemployment numbers must have you and your fellow administration officials scratching your heads. Even though you’re now telling us those 8 million jobs aren’t coming back, surely you guys were hoping for some good news before the mid-term elections. Right? After all, you and your boss did run on Hope and Change. Sorry, Joe. | Read More »
As if the nationalization of your health care weren’t enough reason to hate ObamaCare, here’s a BIG ONE: ObamaCare imposes a tax on our nation’s defenders…for prosthetics! According to the Americans for Tax Reform: The health care overhaul passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama earlier this year contains a new tax on medical devices such as prosthetic limbs, pacemakers, and wheelchairs. | Read More »
Unions. They’re supposed to be about protecting their members’ jobs, right? Think again. As today’s unions go, unions are for bigger government, unions are for publicly-funded bailouts, unions are for unemployment extensions, unions are for nationalized health care, unions are for ending the First Amendment, but in Indianapolis, there is one thing one UAW local is apparently against: jobs. Especially if those jobs mean taking | Read More »
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