Although, due to its planned short duration, it appears to be a mere union pressure tactic to get the American Red Cross to cave at the bargaining table, multiple unions have hit the not-for-profit with a three-day strike in six states. The unions involved include AFSCME, the CWA, OPEIU, and, of course, the SEIU. Blood collections were suspended Wednesday as 60 union workers joined a | 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 »
Yesterday was Tax Day, the day when most Americans file their income tax returns and either shell out more money, or not. There were also protests going on all over the country yesterday by people who are fed up with government’s runaway spending. However, in Minneapolis, the recipients of the runaway spending, members of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees were out | Read More »
For the last several years, union-bought politicians have been giving unions like AFSCME and the SEIU the ability to unionize tens of thousands of care givers who receive state subsidies even though many are in their own homes, caring for their own family members. Some care givers are pushing back. In Illinois, the SEIU lost its bid to unionize care givers. However, others are not | Read More »
First some background: Union bosses have spent HUNDREDS of MILLIONS (dare we say over a billion?) of dollars over these past few years trying to get the hallucinogencially-named Employee Free Choice Act enacted. One of the hallmark provisions of EFCA is what is known as “card-check.” Card-check means that if 50%+1 of a given unit of employees sign union authorization cards, the union wins without | Read More »
Iowa, the home of union-ally Sen. Tom Harkin (D) and the first state to have a crack at presidential contenders, has become a battleground of sorts over whether public unions will gain the right to require public workers throughout the state to pay union “representation fees.” All public employee unions could charge nonmembers fees for services under an amendment introduced Monday to broaden an already | Read More »
There they go again. Big union bosses seem to have a penchant for putting their interests ahead of the larger community. A couple of months ago, it was purple-shirted SEIU bosses picking on an eagle scout for volunteering his time to clear a pathway. Now, the union bosses at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union (AFSCME) want 86-year old Warren Eschenbach removed from | Read More »
“An injury to one is an injury to all…?” “United we bargain, divided we beg…?” “Solidarity…?” Apparently, none of those age-old union adages apply in today’s collectivist union movement. Collectivist unions are supposed to be of single mind, single body. A sort of “all for one, one for all,” “you go, we go” selfless and self-sacrifing collection of union brothers and sisters. Afterall, that is what a | Read More »
As 2009 comes to an end and union bosses prepare for an early 2010 push for the job-destroying and hallucinogenically-named Employee Free FORCED Choice Act (EFCA), unions are getting a near-free pass as media types and union bought-off politicans portray today’s unions as democratic, worker-run organizations. A case in point is the union talking point that EFCA is intended for workers who want to “form” unions. This is particularly prevalent | Read More »
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