Category: Unions

Senator Seeking Answers on NLRB’s Attack on Boeing

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Jim DeMint (R, SC) wants some answers as to why Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) thinks it has the power to tell American businesses where they are allowed to build their newest manufacturing facilities. On June 6 Senator DeMint’s office filed a freedom of information request demanding documents connected to the NLRBs decisions […]

 

Booster Uses Rape Case to Sell Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This one sure is disgusting. Remember that the chief of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested for sexually assaulting a maid in New York? Well the leftist website AlterNet is using the DSK rapist incident to push unions. Like most leftists no crisis is too bad to exploit for union gains, I guess. […]

 

Your Taxes Paying Government Union Members NOT to Work, Part Two

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

At a hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, it was revealed that federal employees spent nearly 3 million hours of official, taxpayer paid time on union activities in 2009. This cost the treasury $129 million, an increase of $8 million over the expenditures in 2008. The report that fueled the hearing (see .pdf) was prepared by […]

 

Union Contracts More Important Than Patients For Union Drivers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Priorities. Union guys have priorities, you know? For instance, in New Jersey earlier this year a bunch of union drivers for the Communications Workers of America (CWA) decided that it was more important to have a “sick-out” and strand sick elderly people, preventing them getting to their life-saving medical treatment than do their jobs. State […]

 

N.J. Courts Not Interested in Democracy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Most Americans are under the mistaken assumption that we as voters can elect someone to make changes in our government. Whether the government of our city, county, state or that in Washington DC we voters have this romantic idea that we can affect change by electing people to office that will make those changes. The […]

 

Democrats FINALLY Talking of Cutting Back Govt Employee Pensions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Post had a recent piece saying that it looks like Washington is finally coming to the stark realization that the benefits and pensions of federal workers are wildly over promised and even Democrats are finally contemplating cuts in federal pensions. The GOP has already targeted these pensions by proposing that federal workers contribute […]

 

NJ Unions Hiding Behind Courts to Continue Ripping Off Taxpayers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The next level of obduracy by New Jersey’s government employee unions has been taken. The Communication Workers of America, the state’s largest government workers union, has filed a suit against New Jersey Governor Chris Christie claiming he isn’t negotiating in good faith over the union’s healthcare contract. You see Gov. Christie wants to change the […]

 

Employee Levels Fall But New York’s Fringe Benefits and Pensions Costs Soar

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pensions are the single biggest problem that every state, county and city in the Union face and New York City is no different. It is so bad that even as New York City has seen the numbers of its government employees fall, its costs in fringe benefits and pensions have still continued to soar. (Download […]

 

Obama’s Plan to Force Fed. Contractors to Disclose Political Donations Meeting Bi-Partisan Opposition

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama’s Executive Order that requires federal contractors to disclose the political contributions they have made is garnering bi-partisan opposition on the Hill this month. The order would force contractors to reveal any political donations as a condition for being allowed to bid on a contract to work for the federal government. And the order […]

 

Do SEIU Members Know Their Union Consorts With America’s Enemies?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is one thing that always flummoxes me. Over the last few decades American labor unions have increasingly become adjuncts, associates, pals, close friends — what ever you want to call them — with anti-American groups like the Communist Party USA and various socialist, anti-Israel groups, and pro-terror groups like the many pro-Palestinian groups. So, […]

 

Dues Paid to Union Fat Cats Could Have Funded 265,447 Workers For A Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Leftists and union supporters love to point to the salaries of corporate bosses and claim them an excess in order to goad regular people into fits of envy and hatred, stirring that class warfare that leftists love so much. But the folks at LaborUnionReport.com thought it might be interesting to turn the tables and calculate […]

 

GM Exec: Reporting GM’s Failures Hurts… Republicans?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an odd turn of events, former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz thinks that anyone that criticizes GM is not only “mis-informed” but insists that those “foaming ideologues” that criticize the car giant are “damaging the Republican Party.” It is interesting that an executive in the company derided as “Government Motors” is trying to direct […]

 

Geithner’s Spin: Auto Bailout A Success

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

At the Detroit Economic Club today, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tried to claim the auto bailout is a success. It certainly doesn’t seem like a success for the taxpayers. GM stock is about $30 today, and unless it gets up to $54, the taxpayers lose money on the deal. Why would it go up? You […]

 

Calif Union Chief Says You Taxpayers are Selfish and Full of ‘Envy’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You taxpayers should be ashamed of yourselves, says Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation. You big, selfish jerks should be happy to pay the taxes that gives government employees all healthcare practically for free and allows them to retire at 50 with their comfortable 40-year-long retirement pensions that pay government union members […]

 

Wisc. Democrats Use Recall Petition Info to Harass Voters

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In yet another union-styled outrage, Democrats backed by union thugs in Wisconsin are using the personal information of voters found on recall petitions to harass them because they signed a petition to recall Green Bay Democrat State Senator Dave Hansen. Over the last few weeks thousands of Wisconsin voters signed a recall petition in Green […]

 

Union Plan: ‘Forget About the Law, Brand Businesses as Human Right Violators’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again we see how lawless the Obama administration and its allies in unions are. By their own admission they don’t care about the law. In the following video we see Obama’s appointee to his Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and United Auto Workers President, Bob King, telling attendees at a recent union […]

 

Union Operative That Wants ‘Financial Panic’ and Communism Still Working at SEIU

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You may remember back in March that an audio tape was released upon which an SEIU operative expressed his desire to destroy the American economy by creating “financial panic” and overloading the system. This, it was proposed, could lay the groundwork to turn America into a perfect communist society. The union operative in question was […]

 

Indiana Democrat Fleebagger’s Hotel Bill Completely Paid for by Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It wasn’t long ago that Indiana Democrats fled the Hoosier state so that they could avoid doing their job in the state legislature. These Democrats self-righteously claimed that they were doing this “for the people” and insisted that they should be considered as heroes. One Indiana Democrat even claimed that his running off to Illinois […]

 

Your Taxes Paying Government Union Members NOT to Work

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Must be nice to be a government worker in a government union. Heck, some of these government union guys are even paid not to work and paid by the taxpayers to do so, yet! Vincent Vernuccio, labor policy guy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, tells us that the Obama administration is even ignoring its responsibility […]

 

Judge Prosser Declared Winner, Left Loses BIG In Wisconsin Union Fight

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A county canvas of votes for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice is finished and the result shows that Judge David Prosser, a 12-year veteran of the courts, won reelection over his union-backed opponent. Judge David Prosser’s total now officially stands at 752,323 votes to challenger Joanne F. Kloppenburg’s 745,007. This spread represents a 0.488% margin and […]

 

Teachers Union Backs Cop Killer

Posted on by Dave Blount

If their wanton destruction of the quality of education and their willingness to bankrupt state governments out of pathological greed aren’t enough to convince you of the profound malignancy of teachers unions, maybe this will do the job: Between negotiating for more benefits and teaching their students, the California Federation of Teachers has adopted a […]

 

Nat’l Teachers Union Chief Steals Reporter’s Story for Speech Without Attribution

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I guess being the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) means not having to do your own homework. Just ask AFT President Randi Weingarten. Weingarten was caught using verbatim and without attribution the work of a journalist from New York in a speech she gave a week ago. Usually this is called plagiarism […]

 

‘Educators’ Conference To Get You Racist White’s Minds Right Coming Soon

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Alright you evil, rotten, racist, white oppressors, it’s time once again for the “White Privilege Conference,” this year to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 13 – 16. Come on out you white teachers so we can get your rotten minds right about how racist you are and so that you can go back […]