The Purple People Eater, otherwise known as the Service Employees International Union (or SEIU), has made national news of late with its alleged beating of Kenneth Gladney and, more recently, the alleged beating of state worker Ken Hamidi. These incidents are only now entering the public consciousness. However, they are only two of many more other incidents that tarnish the public image the SEIU likes | Read More »
Almost a million Philadelphians were left stranded on Tuesday, when the Transport Workers Union pulled a surprise strike at 3 am, crippling the City of Brotherly Love. Although it does not appear to be strike-related, earlier today, an inspector was killed when a southbound commuter train was switched to the northbound to go around a another train with equipment problems. This is the second incident | Read More »
As the old saying goes: Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it. Unions have been pushing for decades to get government-run, single-payer health care while, in the meantime, negotiating “rich” health benefit plans for their members. While labor chieftains, like AFL-CIO’s top boss Richard Trumka have gone ‘all in’ for the public option, it will be the union members’ current | Read More »
Big union bosses must be feeling bad about blowing over $2 million on Creigh Deeds. Afterall, 4,941 union members’ paid dues for a full year (at $425) only to have their union bosses bet it all on a loser.
As a parent, do you wonder what your kids are learning in today’s public shool system? Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmm? This may shed some light on the tools teachers are being equipped with to teach our nation’s youngsters. The nation’s largest union, the National Education Association, has on its website, under Recomended Reading, Saul Alinsky‘s two books: Reveille for Radicals and Rules for Radicals. The NEA also quotes Alinsky’s prose: Alinski, | Read More »
It is Saturday night and, as our schedule has been tight and will be for the foreseeable future, the news necessitates skipping the dubious trick and occasional sweet treat (not that we mind). So, with door bells ringing and children screaming, we offer you the most ghoulish labor news and views offered to you on this All Hallows Eve…We bring you Labor Shorts #5: Have | Read More »
In 1964, the late radio commentator Paul Harvey broadcast the following commentary. It bears repeating today. America has become a cannibal society, devouring its best. The competent, numerically outnumbered by the incompetents, are being corralled, restrained, confined and milked like barnyard cattle. The giants who created our skyscraper civilization are now ordered to obey Lilliputian bureaucrats. Common men—who owe their jobs to uncommon men who | Read More »
There is an old joke among Chevy owners: FORD = Found On the Road Dead. Well, this week, the once-mighty UAW may have just sealed Ford’s fate. As most of America knows (or should know), through a tax-payer funded bailout and government-imposed bankruptcy, the Obama Administration gave General Motors and Chrysler shares to the United Auto Workers in exchange for debt owed to the UAW’s | Read More »
He’s been called, rightly or wrongly, the hand inside Barack Obama’s puppet. One thing is certain, however, Service Employees International Union president Andy Stern has a lot of sway with Barack Obama’s White House. In fact, even as President Obama was nominating SEIU-radical lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, the Wall Street Journal reports that SEIU’s Stern visited the White House some 22 | Read More »
The months-long, cross-country suspense over which state gets the new 787 Dreamliner production line is finally over. Leaving an Anti-Business Climate The Boeing Co. has finally reached the conclusion to locate its second production line for the new 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina, far away from what many view as the anti-business climate in Washington State. While the decision is not sitting well with the International Association | Read More »
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