No amount of caulk will fix the cracks in the fantasy that the economy is getting better. The numbers are bad and they’re really not improving. The number of Americans claiming jobless benefits has risen for the second week running, as the US economy continues to wrestle with persistent unemployment. First-time jobless claims rose by 7,000 to 480,000, according to labour department figures on Thursday, defying expectations | Read More »
UPDATE 12/17: Andy Stern isn’t dumping the Senate health care bill entirely. Instead, he’s pushing it to go to conference with the House bill in the hopes that something “better” comes of it. SEIU President Andy Stern said Thursday it’s time for a vote on the legislation. “We’re for putting the bill into conference,” Stern said in a teleconference call. “We don’t like the bill. | Read More »
It’s been known for quite some time that unions want to nationalize health care for their own gain (increased members = increased dues). However, few have blatantly come out and stated just how far they want to take the nationalized health care train…until last night. The new “super” union for nurses, National Nurses United, which is headed by former Teamster Rose Ann DeMoro sent out an e-mail blast | Read More »
Tension must be tight in the White House. The President and his Democratic cronies have everything riding on a government take over of the nation’s health care. However, resistance is strong against an increasingly unpopular plan, with the president’s poll numbers sagging like a two-bit free prostitute in Copenhagen. Evidence is mounting that the Democrats are getting desperate as the White House is reportedly telling Harry Reid | Read More »
Not having been in the news of late is last year’s post-presidential election scandal of now-ousted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and his alleged attempt to sell then-Senator Barack Obama’s Senate seat in exchange for…something. The Chicago Sun Times is reporting this morning that: Rod Blagojevich’s lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm | Read More »
It hasn’t been called the Union of Ailing Workplaces for nothing. The UAW. The once-mighty auto workers union has become something of a joke, a pitiful shadow of its former self, taking government handouts and trying to unionize anyone that breathes, from graduate students to casino dealers. The fact is, nothing the union has tried has seemed to work to reverse its free fall into oblivion. | Read More »
While the headline of this post says it all, here’s the story from AP: Wisconsin schools will be required to teach the history of organized labor under a bill signed by Gov. Jim Doyle. The bill Doyle signed Thursday also requires Wisconsin schools to teach the history or collective bargaining. The proposal has been around for years but never passed. This year it cleared the Democratic | Read More »
According to internationalists, lefties, labor bosses and other assorted loons, today (December 10th) is International Human Rights Day. Organized around the 1948 signing of the U.N.s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, union bosses co-opted this day some years ago to use as a day to push for the ultimate union bailout, the hallucinogenically-named Employee Free FORCED Choice Act or EFCA. The job-destroying EFCA, as it’s commonly referred to, effectively kills secret-ballot | Read More »
A week ago, we wrote about Crisanta Duran’s campaign for Congress. Ms. Duran is the daughter of accused nepotist and money mismanager, Ernie Duran, Jr. the outgoing boss of Colorado’s UFCW Local 7. As Mr. Duran was voted out of office earlier this year amid allegations of improprieties, it seems his soon-to-be former members may have made the right call. According to Denver’s Westword, the outgoing Executive | Read More »
The United Food & Commercial Workers hates nonunionized grocery stores. So much so, in fact, that the UFCW bosses’ approach to nonunion grocers has been, as former UFCW president Doug Dority declared, to: “…either reduce these chains’ market share … or we must put them out of business. There is no other option.” Tom McNutt, another UFCW chieftain, also stated, “If we can’t organize [nonunion supermarkets], | Read More »
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