“I want to urge devotion to the fundamentals of human liberty the principles of voluntarism. No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.” — Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor Once upon a time, union leaders did not believe in compulsion as a means of securing membership or union dues. My, how times have changed. In Pennsylvania, the SEIU has set March 17th as | Read More »
Perhaps it’s just a coincidence. Then again, perhaps not. However, at the same time AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka went to New Jersey on Friday for a “solidarity” rally, a group of unionized bus drivers who transport developmentally disabled and critically ill patients decided to abandon their duties and stage a sick out. Monmouth County transportation employees staged a sickout Friday that left 174 developmentally disabled | Read More »
[Via the Blaze] Former[?] Communist and White House “Green Jobs Czar,” Van Jones, is partnering with Moveon.org in calling on progressives to engage in a massive protest at state capitols in all 50 states this Saturday. According to Jones, writing in the Huffington Post: Reinvigorated by the idealism and fighting spirit on display right now in America’s heartland, the movement for “hope and change” has | Read More »
Union thugs, this is for you: Yesterday, you physically attacked a friend, without provocation and without justification. Not just my friend, but a friend to many—thousands and thousands across America. Since leaving your ranks 17 years ago, CWA, I knew you then to be ineffectual and depraved but, by attacking a friend to so many, you have now sunk to the bowels of hell for | Read More »
As Americans, we’re often taught that trusts and monopolies are the product of big business and are bad. However, if trusts and monopolies are bad when Big Business engages in monopolistic ways, why isn’t it bad when Big Labor engages in the same sort of behaviors that are condemned when committed by Big Business? For over a week now, the nation has watched tens of | Read More »
A full 88% of America is union-free. Yet, despite the fact that the vast majority of American taxpayers do not belong to a union, let alone work for the government, we Americans are being held hostage by a loud and thuggish minority who feel that it is their right to force the vast majority of Americans acquiesce to their demands. Last week, we learned that the | Read More »
THIS JUST IN: In an attempt to follow their European counterparts, public-sector unions in Wisconsin are endorsing a call for a general strike if Governor Scott Walker’s plan passes and is signed into law. As the Wisconsin Legislature reconvened this morning, a key federation of nearly 100 labor unions in the state is calling for a general strike for about 45,000 people if Gov. Scott | Read More »
Wisconsin’s Democrat lawmakers fled their state like fugitives last Thursday. Since fleeing, they’ve been living their lives on the lam, have reportedly been seen lurking in parking lots at non-union hotels, and heard to have been ordering room service from their hotel rooms…in Illinois. Your assistance is being requested in order to help find these fugitives for their lawmaking duties. With the help of expert artist Toby | Read More »
Let’s see if we’ve got this straight: Apparently, to a union doctor, the Hippocratic Oath includes giving out excuse slips to union protesters so they can call in sick to their union jobs so they can continue protesting at the union protest…
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” – Lenin In Wisconsin, and elsewhere, union bosses are fighting to maintain control over more than just their having a say in wages and benefits. With the SEIU ramping up rallies nationwide, the protests in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio are the beginning of a much larger battle that America | Read More »
Day Five: Tea Party protesters, the fine folks from American Majority and others are holding a rally in Madison today. Herman Cain, Andrew Breitbart, Ned Ryun, as well as Jim Hoft are confirmed speakers Meanwhile, you never know who you’re going to bump into on the way to a revolution.
While the mass media’s attention is focused on the OFA-mobilized hordes storming the statehouse in Wisconsin to protect the unions, President Obama was slipping another one of his union contributors into a prime spot. On Wednesday, the President announced the membership appointment of UAW President Bob King to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations: Bob King, Appointee for Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy | Read More »
It’s getting harder to write a post without pausing to chuckle at the absurdity of the Democrat-led protests in Madison. The first day of protests was sort of a shrug. The second day produced some interest. Thursday, though, was like watching an alligator trying to eat an electric eel—funny, but in a freakish sort of way. Walk Like an Egyptian. At some point during the | Read More »
You’ve probably heard about Scott Walker’s “evil” cuts to public-sector workers, the fact that his budget is going to cost them more for their benefits and going to cause them to contribute more toward their retirement and, in essence, bring them into parity with the private sector. In fact, you may have even been led to believe that the tens of thousands of marchers and | Read More »
Today is the third straight day of protests in Madison, Wisconsin as Barack Obama’s shock troops storm the state capitol to fight Governor Walker’s plan to reform the public-sector scam that has ravaged that state for decades. As Democrats fled the statehouse (to an apparently non-union hotel in Illinois) to avoid doing the duties they were elected for and capitol staffers were told to lock their doors, | Read More »
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