Cars honk at the union protesters, drivers pump their fists in solidarity, many thinking to themselves: Those evil, greedy, profit-loving corporate bosses are always trying to take the bread and butter from the workers’ mouths! Oh!… Wait a minute!… Those union protesters aren’t picketing the offices of some nameless corporate behemoth. They’re picketing the church on the corner! Why? Because the church members dared to | Read More »
If the allegations about Flowers, Jones, Stone, Streisand and countless others didn’t destroy their dynasty… If fellatio in the Oval Office and an infamous blue dress didn’t ruin it for her… Perhaps, this time…this time, Bill Clinton has finally gone too far with another woman and, as a result, ended it for Hillary. No, he didn’t try out a new brand of cigars with her, but | Read More »
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free… Give me your union dues and union fees, I will take them so ever happily… While this may not rise to the level of harboring a fugitive, since harboring a fugitive refers to “the crime of knowingly hiding a wanted criminal from the authorities,” it comes awfully darn close. SAN FRANCISCO – Federal | Read More »
There wasn’t really a question about it, was there? Whether it’s called Obamacare or nationalized health care, we’ve been warning since October 2008 (as others have also weighed in) that Obamacare would eventually lead to single-payer insurance. Why? It’s a matter of simple economics. If health care costs are expected to rise as predicted, employers will find fines less costly (and far less burdensome) than | Read More »
You know times are tough for unions when they’re willing to take union dues from farm animals. The Teamsters in Oakland, California filed a grievance against Mills College, complaining that the school had violated its collective bargaining agreement by hiring non-union workers to clear brush. The Teamsters demanded that the college either (1) award backpay to the union members who lost out on the work or (2) | Read More »
Well, if the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) can’t unionize Wal-Mart and Whole Foods, they might as well settle on unionizing pot growers. At a ceremony hosted by Oakland City Council’s Rebecca Kaplan, 100 employees at medical marijuana dispensary and education hub Oaksterdam University turned in their membership cards to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 5. It may well be | Read More »
Less than a week after terrorizing a teenager and storming banks, the SEIU’s real motives are exposed: The Service Employees International Union is setting its sights on organizing bank tellers. New SEIU President Mary Kay Henry told Bloomberg News that the union wants to “provide whistleblower protections to tellers who are being pressured to sell products to customers” who can’t afford to pay. Bank workers | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Caleb. It wasn’t a secret. They were planning it for weeks. Their plans were to protest and intimidate. And, protest and intimidate they did. They even brag about it on their website: A little rain didn’t stop thousands of people from gathering on K Street to call out the big bank lobbyists corrupting our democracy. After two days of confronting | Read More »
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. Wyatt Earp With the SEIU, the UFCW and the AFL-CIO up in arms over Arizona’s new immigration law (which enforces already-existing law), Obama administration officials Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano have admitted they haven’t actually read the law, despite their condemnation. Meanwhile, the City of Los Angeles has opted to boycott the State of Arizona. According to union-bought backed Los | Read More »
Whenever there was a picket line, he was there. A brief to be filed on a union boss’s behalf? He wrote it and filed it. He was, to the say the least, union bosses’ highest friend in Connecticut’s Democrat apparatchik and, as attorney general, Richard Blumenthal aspired to higher office. Unfortunately, like many politicians, Slippery Dick Blumenthal lied misled, repeatedly, on his resume. At a ceremony honoring veterans | Read More »
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