Category: Unions

Big Labor Pays Big Bucks For Occupy D.C.

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A nurses union spent big cash to “Occupy Washington DC.” On November 3rd, 2011, the National Nurses United Union, allied with the AFL-CIO, payed for the expenses of more than 1000+ members to march with Occupy DC and ask the President to raise taxes. Both public and private hospitals must have gone short staffed as […]

 

NYPD Police Union: Another Example of Why Public Employee Unions Need to be Outlawed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week 16 dirty New York cops went on trial for all sorts of criminal behavior. From dealing drugs, to assault and grand larceny, and “unrelated corruption,” these cops are proving to be some very crooked characters. But fellow officers don’t care about that. They have ginned themselves up to act like the punks and […]

 

Defeat of OH Issue 2 Means $1,468 More Per Taxpayer By 2015

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Matt Mayer of the Buckeye Institute has done the math on what a defeat of Issue 2 will cost Ohio’s taxpayers. Turns out it will cost taxpayers $1,468 more a year by 2015. Mayer made a simple calculation by taking the $8 billion tax hike that a defeat of Issue 2 will usher in by […]

 

VIDEO: Pelosi: Boeing Plant Should Unionize or be Shut Down

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The now thankfully former Speaker of the House Nancy “San Fran Nan” Pelosi said in a recent interview that a Boeing plant in South Carolina should either unionize or be shut down by the iron fist of government. So much for America being the land of the free, eh? Pelosi appeared on CNBC with hostette […]

 

Occupy Wall Street Kitchen Staff Tired of ‘Freeloaders’?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently some of the folks slaving away to cook politically correct meals for the participants of Occupy Wall Street are sick and tired of working themselves to the bone for homeless people, criminals, and other freeloaders who are eating their food. This is called being mugged by reality. It is also pretty darn funny. The […]

 

VIDEO: Walker’s Wisc. Union Reforms Are Working! (A Lesson for all Blue States)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Governor Scott Walker was the worst devil the unions could imagine. They targeted him and Wisconsin’s Republicans mercilessly earlier this year. Fortunately, the unions and their Democrat handmaidens lost most of these battles. But now some results are being seem from the efforts to curtail the un-democratic, unearned power of Wisconsin’s government employee unions. A […]

 

Occupy Chicago Sign: ‘Dear Rich Straight White Dudes, F**K Off’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Like the rest of the large cities in the US, Chicago is currently suffering with small pockets of Occupy protesters and their ever-present signs. And like every other big city these signs are often misspelled, sometimes profane, commonly anti-capitalist, occasionally anti-Semitic, almost always anti-American, not to mention merely ignorant of the facts. But one thing […]

 

New Bill Introduced to Roll Back Obama’s Anti-Business NLRB Rules

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline (R, Minn.) is tired of sitting around doing nothing while Obama ramps up his extremely anti-business, anti-jobs regulatory regime. So Kline has introduced a new bill to roll back some of these harsh rules. Since he became president Obama has been using his power to […]

 

Attention AFL-CIO, IBEW, Teamsters and UMW Members: Your Christmas Gift From the White House is Here… 116,000 Layoffs

Posted on by Doug Ross

CleanTechnica gleefully reports that effective January 2012, the EPA is scheduled to shut down 20 percent of all coal plants in America. The EPA will shut down an estimated 20% of the nation’s coal plants through the ground-level ozone rule (the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) ) through cap and trade that is about to be implemented […]

 

President Obama’s NLRB & Their Summer Assault On American Jobs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama pretends that he wants to cut regulations and make it easier for businesses to make jobs. Unfortunately, what he says and what he does with his powers to regulate are two very, very different things. From the Workforce Fairness Institute: The Workforce Fairness Institute today unveiled a new web video spotlighting President Obama’s National […]

 

Chicago: Union Members Collect Millions in Tax $$ With Sweetheart Pension Deal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Now this is the sort of corruption we are used to seeing in Illinois, eh? This week the Chicago Tribune and WGN TV has found up to 23 retired union operatives that are collecting millions in taxpayer dollars because they had pals in government tweak the state’s pensions laws to favor them. These former government […]

 

Intimidation: Obama’s Dept. of Labor To Supply Replacement Workers’ Names AND Addresses to Union Thugs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

“Since 1975,” a study of union violence says, there has been “more than 9,000 reports of union violence.” With that in mind, wouldn’t it scare you if you were told that your name and address would be made public knowledge if you were hired as a temporary or replacement worker during a union strike? If […]

 

Obama’s Pleas for Civility Don’t Apply to Union Leaders

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michael Barone, one of America’s premier political analysts, unleashed a corker this week looking over how sold out to unions our president as been. It is something that union watchers such as myself have been saying since day one. It’s bad enough that Obama has been so bought and paid for by union bosses, but […]

 

Supermarket Union May Force Hundreds Of Stores To Close….Over $9 A Week

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, all the unionized supermarket workers in California don’t want to pay their fair share The “Big Three” Southern California grocery chains are bracing for a strike and possible shut down after the union representing grocery workers canceled their contract with the stores. About 62,000 workers in the United Food and Commercial Workers union at […]

 

Mich. House Moves to Ban Union Dues Deducted from Teachers’ Paychecks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new measure has been introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives that would ban school districts from automatically deducting union dues from teachers’ paychecks and handing that money over to unions. The practice of having state governments deducting dues automatically from state employees is quite common in northern and western states that are in […]

 

Union Thugs Hurl Racial Taunts in North Dakota

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Union-lovers and Democrats point to Tea Party enthusiasts routinely calling them “racists” and “violent.” Yet, since the Tea Party movement began, no racial epithets nor violence has been reported or proven. On the other hand, month in and month out we have seen one example of union members engaging in both racism and violence. This […]

 

Obama Now Trying to Intimidate Consultants and PR Firms of Businesses

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

True to form, even as he says he wants to cut regulations, Obama’s regulatory army is marching hard against business and this week the president’s Labor Dept. has unleashed yet another salvo in order to hurt the business sector. Before I start this explanation of yet another Obama powergrab through his powers to regulate, may […]

 

Union Members Take Hostages, Destroy Property: But Remember, Tea Party is ‘Dangerous’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After months of accusations that it is the Tea Party movement that is somehow “dangerous” to America, much of such rhetoric coming from union members and their supporters, we get union members of the Longshoremen storming the Port of Longview, Washington taking hostages, destroying property, and generally acting like lawless thugs. Imagine what the news […]

 

AFL-CIO Prez: Hey, Remember 9/11? Was a Great Union Moment, Right?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In one of the most disgusting examples of the self-absorption of the union mind set, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka decided that his 9/11 memorial would not be much about 9/11, but would instead be just another excuse to say how great unions are and how evil conservatives are. This isn’t just gauche, but insulting, infuriating, […]

 

Rockford Tea Party Calls for Resignation of Teamsters President

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa incited violence against Republicans as he introduced President Obama at Monday’s rally in Detroit, at least one organization called for Hoffa to resign over his intemperate and violent rhetoric. The Rockford Tea Party of northern Illinois made the call for Hoffa to resign. Here is what Hoffa’s ignorant rhetoric sounded: […]

 

Illinois Ranks Bottom of States With Worst Government Unions Accountability

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston A new study finds that Illinois ranks at the bottom of states with the worst climate of government union accountability in the nation. The Land of Lincoln ranks 47th in the nation of out of control, unaccountable government unions says the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s new “Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index.” The […]

 

Children Better Behaved Than Union Thugs in Wisconsin

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The MacIver Institute of Wisconsin has been doing stellar work on the situation between the unions and the rest of Wisconsin since Governor Scott Walker first entered the Governor’s mansion. The Institute has really shown the thuggery that is the unions again and again, revealing them for what they are. Well, MacIver has done it […]

 

Idiot Ohio Congressman Bans, Confiscates Devices at Townhall

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I go after the left all the time for opposing free speech and for doing its best to shut down citizens, especially at townhall events. Well here is an example of a Republican doing the same thing. His actions are those I’d instantly condemn were it a left-wing Democrat (but I repeat myself) perpetrating it. […]

 

Obama’s Newest Way To Let Unions Avoid Disclosure Rules

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama and his union-sold Department of Labor has spent the last three years trying every legal trick, and some merely arrogant ones, to help unions get away with criminal behavior. Obama has especially been working to get his union patrons out of having to declare their financial information to the government like businesses have to. […]

 

Union Astroturf Pretends Like Tea Partiers to Attack GOP

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill has an interesting, if not a bit slanted, report about the faux grassroots efforts of unions and left-wing advocates to pretend they are somehow just like the Tea Party by attacking the town hall meetings of various GOP congressman across the country this Summer. The Hill dutifully reports without complaint the union’s claims […]

 

Union Thugs Deface Funeral Homes Over Union Fight

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently unions don’t even respect the dead. In Chicago, union thugs are defacing funeral homes over a contract dispute. Yeah. Property damage. That sure is a legitimate way to go about business, isn’t it? Good thing some of the people in those businesses are already dead or they’d have something to fear from the union […]