For the past five years, our efforts have been to awaken the American people to the devastating consequences of a job-destroying bill misleadingly named the Employee Free Choice Act (or EFCA, for short). As the bill that just won’t quite die a deserved ignominious death, unions and their Democrat pols know that 2010 might be the last time they have an even slim chance for bringing it | Read More »
Despite reports that Mary Kay Henry has been selected as the successor to outgoing SEIU president Andy Stern, the Huffington Post is reporting that Andy himself is saying the selection has not been made: Officials at the powerful SEIU labor union say that the campaign to find a replacement for departing president Andy Stern remains undecided, despite reports that California nurses leader Mary Kay Henry | Read More »
Last Friday’s stunning Purple Palace Coup at the SEIU (that is the rejection of the Queen of Labor and frequent White House visitor Anna Burger as the next SEIU president) seems to be a story filled with intrigue and back-room politicking among former friends-turned-bitter enemies. Wade Rathke, (pictured on left) most famous for his role as the co-founder of the now-disgraced Association of Community Organizations for | Read More »
Two brothers, one’s a carpenter, the other is an electrician. Both work in the same neighborhood and, over time, the carpenter notices that his brother, the electrician, seems to always have a smile on his face. One day, as the carpenter is working on a house next to where the electrician is working, the carpenter looks out the window and sees the electrician’s wife bringing | Read More »
The plan all along has been to have European-style, single-payer health care. A warning was issued in 2008, in 2009 and now: Under the new health care reform legislation, America will have a single-payer health care system being initiated within three years and implemented within the next five to ten years. Here’s why [from one of the largest employee and labor law firms in the | Read More »
In what can only be described as a nationwide repudiation of Andy Stern and his divisiveness within the Service Employees International Union, as well as with other labor unions, a majority of large SEIU locals chose to reject Andy Stern’s hand-picked successor, Anna Burger, and elected California SEIU leader Mary Kay Henry as the next SEIU International President. Key locals in New York, Los Angeles, | Read More »
For the last week, we’ve been posting on the Purple Palace Coup taking place within the walls of the SEIU. New York’s 1199 to Back Burger Challenger The Politico’s Ben Smith is reporting this morning that the Queen of Labor’s Anna Burger may lose her bid to take Andy Stern’s place at the throne of America’s most-politically active union. Her challenger, Mary Kay Henry, is | Read More »
Across the country, teachers (aka those who are responsible for educating children and young adults basic skills in reading, writing and arithmetic…and a whole lot more) are acting out. One of the basic tenets in business or of common sense (which, unfortunately, they don’t teach in school) is that you cannot eat more than you produce. However, teachers and, more importantly, their unions seem to be | Read More »
And they blinked… Almost as soon as it started, they’re throwing in the towel…raising the white flag…calling it quits. The Teamsters gave an unconditional offer to return to work thereby calling off their Seattle-are strike against Waste Management only a day and a half after they walked off the job. Union garbage haulers who service King and Snohomish counties have offered to return to work | Read More »
UPDATE: THE TITLE OF THIS POST SHOULD READ: SEIU VIDEO MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS because, since this was posted earlier, the SEIU has apparently taken the video down from their site and YouTube which is why there is a big blank spot of white down below. [Note: The HTML embed is still there, so maybe the video will magically reappear] UPDATE #2: They’re Baaack! ————————– Last week, | Read More »
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