Category: Unions

Former ACORN Worker Takes Plea Deal for Vote Fraud

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Just prior to the election we discovered that in the state of Nevada the former chief of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now’s (ACORN) affiliated Project Vote organization was under indictment for voter fraud. This week we learn that Amy Busefink has coped a plea deal on charges of illegally paying “bonus” payments […]

 

Obama’s NLRB Appointee Says Unions Need to be Voted in Quicker

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Now that the election is over and we’ve seen in stark light the rebuke that Obama has received, many are wondering if he’ll moderate his far left agenda. But a few movements in the Labor Dept. will disabuse anyone of the notion that Obama intends to drop his left-wing agenda. Leave it to an Obama […]

 

As America Votes, Obama Angling to Take Vote Away From Workers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As Americans prepare to head to the polls to exercise their right to a secret ballot on election day, the Obama administration is poised to roll back that right in the workplace. By Obama’s orders, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is looking over a policy change that would undermine the protections for a worker’s […]

 

The Best and Worst State Debt Disasters

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Forbes created an interactive map where Americans can find out what sort of mess their state is in. All you need do is roll your mouse cursor over your state and get the good … or horrible… news. Forbes finds that the best state is Utah. The debt per capita in the Beehive State is […]

 

Unions Give More Campaign $$ To Dems Than Corporations To GOP

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left’s meme about campaign contributions since the Supreme Court beat down some of the McCain/Feingold Act has been that the Republicans are awash in illicit political donations from those eeevil corporations — and unfair donations at that — and this puts the poor Democrats at a disadvantage. Why all those evil rich corporate raiders […]

 

Machines Voting By Themselves, SEIU, And Free Food, Nevada is Getting Weird

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Something wacko is going on in Nevada.:  Some voters in Boulder City are complaining that their ballots were cast before they went to the polls. These complaints are raising questions about Clark County’s electronic voting machines. Guess who holds the contract to conduct maintenance on those machines?:  President Obama’s Favorite Union the SEIU. If you […]

 

NJ Teachers Union Bragging They Can’t Be Fired

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Shock videographer James O’Keefe has released video of New Jersey teachers union members bragging that it is nearly impossible for them to be fired by the state. Daily Caller reports: In one video, Alissa Ploshnick, who is identified as a special educator at Passaic Public Schools, seems to verify the worst suspicions of education reformers. […]

 

Obama Rules That SEIUs Law Breaking is OK By Him

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With a recent Federal Election Commission decision Obama’s government has ruled in favor of the SEIU’s illegal kickback scheme and decided that such law breaking it is A’OK as far as he is concerned. Ostensibly, FEC law states that unions cannot require member locals to pay a specific amount of money into a union’s political […]

 

Union Killing Local Libraries?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In this era of severe budget cuts, layoffs, and job loss, people in the real world are making due with less. Businesses are cutting back and people are hurting everywhere in this era of Obama. Local governments are also starting to find this economic climate challenging. But even as local budgets are taking hits, unions […]

 

Union Realizes Its Labor Is Too Expensive, Actually Proposes Cutting Rates

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chicago’s electrical workers union is making ready to cut costs of its services with a unique solution to the high cost of its labor in this down economy. At the bidding of the national office the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Chicago has announced a plan to add a new classification of workers who […]

 

Oops. Obama’s ‘Saved Job’ Was Just Lost

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oh, it was a thing to be celebrated when Obama’s payoff to the teachers unions back in August “saved” the job of Ohio school teacher Amanda VanNess. It was such a thing of wonder that the big guy flew the elementary school teacher all the way to D.C. for an Oval Office signing ceremony. (Pictured: […]

 

The Lies States Peddle on Pension ‘Savings’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pensions are fast becoming the time bomb that will destroy the financial well being of our state budgets. Because public employee unions have been allowed to outrageously grow their retirement benefits by supplying billions in campaign donations to compliant politicians, most state pension plans are deeply in the hole. Many states have at last begun […]

 

Illinois Budget Mess Deepens: Using 2011 Funds to Pay 2010 Bills

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

From The Bond Buyer, a website that tracks news on the bond market we see that the president’s home state is in an ever deeper budget hole every day. In a stark illustration of Illinois’ deteriorating balance sheet, the state ended the first quarter of fiscal 2011 with $5.5 billion in overdue bills and faces […]

 

Postal Workers Union Election on Hold Over Ballots Lost in the Mail

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The incompetence of public employee unions strikes again. The American Postal Workers Union has been forced to extend its election because too many mail-in ballots have yet to get to their final destination. That’s right, the postal workers election is on hold because the post office lost the ballots in the mail. The union’s election […]

 

Vice President Biden Wants to Strangle Opponents

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the tail of the Enviro-Nazis making a film depicting children being murdered because they refused to agree to the globaloney religion — showing the left’s inability to brook opposition without resorting to violence or threats of same — Vice President Joe Biden has announced that he’d like to “strangle” any Republican that opposes his […]

 

Lefty Rally at Lincoln Memorial Gets Glad Handed By Old Media, But Event a Bust

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

**UPDATED WITH VIDEO of communist and socialist participants** **UPDATED 10/03/10 PHOTO of rally from Wash. Memorial** Naturally the Old Media is doing its level best to pump up the “One Nation” rally. The lefty protest is gathering in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. today, Oct. 2. But despite […]

 

Actors Union Acting a ‘Bully Boy’ Over Aussie Lord of the Rings Sequels

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Unions are the scourge of Middle Earth, or at least the upcoming filmed version of Tolkien’s Hobbit set in that mythical land, anyway. Peter Jackson, heir to the Tolkien legacy on film, is trying to produce a two-part Hobbit film but the local actors union is standing athwart him Sauron-like and casting its evil union […]

 

Joseph Iosbaker, Another SEIU Big Shot in Trouble

Posted on by Dave Blount

Obama’s pal Andy Stern isn’t the only commie from the SEIU in trouble with the grownups — not that we would know this from the liberal establishment media. There’s also Joseph Iosbaker, Chief Steward for SEIU’s Local 73 in Chicago: Over the weekend the FBI announced that it was investigating Joseph Iosbaker for possible connections […]

 

FBI Investigating Obama Confidant and Union Chief Andy Stern?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is pretty momentous information. According to two people interviewed by federal agents the FBI and the U.S. Labor Dept. are investigating former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Andy Stern. The two organized labor officials met with federal agents this summer to answer questions about a six-figure book contract that Stern landed in 2006 and […]

 

Chicago News Outlets Miss That FBI Targeted Protester is Chief Steward for SEIU

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One might think it would be big news that a Chief Steward for a Local chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is being investigated by the FBI for possible connection to overseas terror networks. Apparently, though, several Chicago news outlets didn’t see a reason to add this little fact to their stories. And […]

 

Pot Smoking Gov’t Motors Car Builders Actually Fired

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Monday Government Motors (GM) took a hard line against the drunken, pot smoking union members that became the unwitting star of a news expose in Detroit last week firing the partiers. All 13 employees were fired after being shown on WJBK, Fox 2 News Detroit drinking and smoking pot in a local park on their […]

 

Unions: Democrat’s Own Extremists Taking The Local Parties Over?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michael Barone, one of media’s sharpest observers of America’s political scene, has noted an interesting trend in Democrat politics: unions are knocking out regular liberal Democrats in America’s big cities. Barone calls it a civil war raging in the Democrat Party. He points to several big city campaigns in which unions rose up to defeat […]

 

Leftwits Try to Top Beck With October Rally in D.C.

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The leftists are trying to emulate both Glenn Beck and the Tea Party movement by having their own march on D.C. and it is coming in but a few days. They are claiming that “hundreds of thousands” of their extreme leftist compatriots will gather at the Lincoln Memorial on October 2 for a left-wing bacchanalia […]

 

A Teamsters High? Dope Growers Join Union

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Can you imagine the Teamsters mellowed? Can you think of them being more interested in munchies than in beating up non-union workers? Imagine them just hanging out instead of doing some mobster’s bidding on the mean streets. The good news today is that we may finally see the violence and agitation in which Teamsters have […]

 

Senate Dems Pushing Another Big Union Payoff

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senate Democrats, Harry Ried in the lead, are once again attempting to bestow a big payoff to unions by attempting to defeat Senate Resolution 30. This resolution would turn back a union payoff that Democrats slipped by the nation last May. A rules change made by Obama’s National Mediation Board, a federal agency that regulates […]

 

SEIU Union Hack Admits that Local TV Stations Help ‘Get Our Message Across’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has a gem of a report wherein a union operative admits on tape that he and his union pals intend to launch a big campaign against Wisconsin’s GOP Gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker. That news isn’t much of a surprise, of course, but what is a surprise is that this […]

 

Unions Retreat on Criticism of Dems That Didn’t Support Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier in this election cycle unions were pumped up with an assumed sense of supreme power, they had spent millions to elect their guy to the White House and they were ready to flex their muscles. Unions began to direct that assumed power against Democrats that were reticent to support Obama’s takeover of our healthcare […]

 

Unions Struggling to Get Members to Rally Behind Dems

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When voters are not enthused even unions find it harder to get their supporters to rally to an election and this is one of the worst years for Democrats on record. Unions are finding their efforts hard slogging just like the rest of the Democrat Party is. It’s so bad even The New York Times […]

 

Michigan Home Healthcare Workers Sue State Over Forced Unionization

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So imagine that you are working out of your home or the home of a friend. Say you are helping care for your own developmentally disabled relative or that of another. You are working for a family, not a company, and you are not employed by the state. Then one day you get a letter […]

 

SEIU and NUHW Goes Head-To-Head in Big Labor Death Match

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For more than a year I’ve written off an on about the vicious fight between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and offshoot union the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). The NUHW left the SEIU in a huff several years ago when the SEIU implemented a hostile takeover of the California-based NUHW that it […]