Category: Unions

Calif Video: Union Goons Start Pushing and Hitting Videographers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is how “nurses” act? The kind, gentle folks of the California Nurses Association are seen in this video intimidating, pushing and knocking around some videographers at the union’s recent pro-Democrat rally in California. Mike Griffing is the bearded fellow acting the thug at the end of the video. But he isn’t just some run-of-the-mill […]

 

For All Teachers’ Whining, Almost Half of Chicago Area Teachers Make $100K a Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the Obama economy tumbles farther and farther down into depression, as states begin to face the reality of a budget crunch that can only be solved by layoffs of public employees, and as teachers find they are open to those layoffs, we commonly hear teachers claim that they are perennially underpaid and don’t deserve […]

 

Financial Reform? More Like Union Giveaways!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Thursday the Senate passed the Democrat’s financial reform bill. But even as Obama claims that this bill will “solve” the financial crisis, a look at the thing seems to prove that things financial took a back seat to giveaways to Obama’s union pals and sops to many of the Democrat’s other special interest friends. […]

 

Unions Violating Disclosure Rules

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When Barack Obama took office, one of the early things he did was install Hilda Solis, a long-time union operative, as head of the Department of Labor. And one of the first things she did was to ease the reporting requirements on unions, softening the violation of disclosure rules. In August of 2009 Labor Sec. […]

 

Another Sign of Unions Losing Allies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Again the New York Times reports on the confusion, anger, and loss of influence being experienced by shocked unions, this time teachers unions. Like the psychotic that lashes out at everyone around them when things are going wrong, at a New Orleans teachers union convention there is a lot of harsh words for former friends […]

 

Democrats Continue to Use Tax $ to Pay Union Members to do Union Business

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again Democrats decided that it was a good idea to pay workers of federal employee unions 100% of their salary to do union business during work hours instead of doing the job they were hired for. That’s right, instead of paying these federal employees to do the job we the people hired them to […]

 

Dems Include Union Bailout in War Funding Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is no other aspect of Washington D.C. that upsets voters more than government spending surreptitiously added on to spending bills and this week Congress indulged its inner drunken sailor once again by adding a $10 billion bailout for teachers unions in the bill that is supposed to fund the war effort. The teacher union […]

 

Most Ethical White House EVAH Forgets to Mention $40K Payout

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Back in the hoary days of the Obama transition Obamaniacs and other sycophants were rushing to the microphones to tell us all that we voters had just hired the most ethical White House ever. Why, White House transition team co-chair John Podesta even claimed that Obama was instituting the “strictest ethics rules ever applied” as […]

 

Worst Teachers Rewarded by Unions, New Teachers Abandoned

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week the Chicago Tribune published an editorial detailing the biggest reason why unions as they have operated in the U.S. for decades are an illegitimate venture. The Trib published a plea to new Chicago teachers union chief Karen Lewis not to protect the bad teachers under her charge and to help the younger teachers […]

 

Union Thugs at Play at Toys R Us

Posted on by Dave Blount

By now we all know that Comrade Obama is in very tight with the unions — so tight that he discarded the rule of law to favor the UAW at the expense of secured creditors when he seized control of Chrysler. If he is able to ram Card Check through Congress, unions will have an […]

 

Obama’s Drilling Moratorium a Sop to Unions?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The president of the Seafarers International Union’s Gulf Coast District, Dean Corgey, recently penned an op ed in which he noted an interesting fact: deepwater oil drilling rigs are “100 percent non-union.” With this in mind one of union bought president Barack Obama’s major decisions — in fact, one of his few actual decisions — […]

 

Disclosure Act: Another Example of Unconstitutional Obamaism

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On June 24 the House of Representatives passed by a bare minimum number of votes the DISCLOSE Act, a law that is supposed to be a new effort to get around the recent US Supreme Court decision that struck down parts of Congress’ campaign finance law. Bare minimum or no there is no doubt that […]

 

Sen. Harkin Promises Return to Card Check

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill is reporting that Iowa’s leading Democrat, Senator Tom Harkin, is promising that the lame-duck Senate will again take up Big Labor’s favored Employee Free Choice Act, (EFCA), the famous card check act that is neither good for employees nor one that facilitates “free choice” of any kind. Apparently, what’s bad for the nation […]

 

Employment in the USSA

Posted on by Dave Blount

The one supposed benefit of socialism is the theoretical potential for full “employment.” In the USSR, two state slaves would be assigned to watch one cow graze all day for barely enough money to stay perpetually drunk, but no one could say they didn’t have a job. In the USSA, school crossing guards watch over […]

 

Life Is Good in Teachers Unions, Even in Detroit

Posted on by Dave Blount

No matter how bad things get, a few always manage to live high on the hog. Often they are the ones who made things so bad in the first place. Take Michigan, for example — a once vibrant state that has been economically devastated by the unions that destroyed the auto industry. If you’re living […]

 

Obama’s Healthcare Give Away to Union Special Interests

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of Obamacare’s new rules states that if your employer finds it necessary to change healthcare providers to a more cost effective plan they will lose their federal health plan exemptions. This will cause employers to drop employees from health plans forcing workers onto government sponsored plans. So much for Obama’s hoary idea that you […]

 

New York Teachers Union Has Branch in Florida?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The outrage of union activities never ceases to amaze. From the Education Week blog we find that the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the teachers union of New York, spends almost $200,000 a year of its member’s dues money on an office in Boca Raton, Florida! As Ed Week drolly says, “That’s not peanuts for […]

 

Our ‘Unions are Bad for America’ Theme is Resonating

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For those of you that have come to the blog often, there is a constant theme: unions are antithetical to good government. We’ve been saying this here for years, of course, but over this campaign season I think that meme is beginning to gain real traction because stories echoing this sentiment are everywhere these days. […]

 

Unions Preventing a Timely Cleanup of Oil in the Gulf?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Joseph Carafano of the Heritage Foundation has made an interesting observation and wonders if President Obama is allowing unions to make it harder to effect a timely and effective cleanup of the BP oil spill in the Gulf? The offer of aid from foreign companies has been refused by the Obama administration and the Jones […]

 

Teachers Union Extorts Parents for Campaign Cash

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The indispensable Mark Hemingway of the Washington Examiner recently caught another union outrage. This time it’s the teachers union in New Jersey trying to extort cash from parents directly, as opposed to merely extorting cash from parents through their taxes. Hemingway alerts us to a New Jersey parent that was aghast that the NJ teachers […]

 

New Film, ‘The Lottery’: Unions Destroying American Education

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new documentary film is debuting this week entitled, “The Lottery.” The film highlights the ever failing public education system we have in America today and how our children’s future is being seriously harmed by greedy, uncaring teachers unions. As the trailer says, these unions are protecting failure in our schools… From the website:

 

Video: Gov. Christie Knows Teachers Unions are the Schoolyard Bullies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided that to protect our children’s futures beating the schoolyard bully is the way to go. But who is the bully? Is it the sign carrying, whiney teachers? No, it’s their powermongering, kid unfriendly unions pushing teachers to act like bullies. The unions are the bullies and THAT is […]

 

Pols Close Bankruptcy Option on Behalf of Greedy Unions

Posted on by Dave Blount

The only hope some municipalities have of surviving the pathological greed of public employee unions is to declare bankruptcy, as there is no way they can afford their outlandishly lavish contracts. But fortunately for unions, they own the Democrat Party, which is in a position to annul this last line of defense. A bill that […]

 

Harry Reid’s Push To Nationalize ALL Cop/Firemen Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid is quietly trying to nationalize rules governing every police, fire and first responder union in the nation. Through the benignly named Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (H.R.413) Reid wants all first responders represented by collective bargaining rules emanating from Washington D.C. Naturally he thinks that it is necessary as […]