Category: Unions

Top Worst State Budgets: Unions Have Put EVERY State’s Budget In The Hole

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When you or I overspend our family budget and end up not being able to pay our bills a few things happen, all of them bad. At best we do without luxury items, at worst a bank comes and takes our cars away, our homes away, or, worse yet, we go hungry. When government unions […]

 

Indiana Democrat Fleebagger Compares Himself to Our Soldiers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is nothing worse than some self-interested politician acting as if his partisan political agenda makes him serving his country just like our brave soldiers at war. But here we have it from Indiana’s 69th District Democrat Dave Cheatham, one of the Hoosier State Reps that ran off to Illinois to avoid doing his job […]

 

NJ Democrat pushing pension reform exploited double-dip loophole

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

I don’t know which is funnier. A prominent NJ Democrat caught red-handed exploiting a loophole he’s pushing to eliminate, or… Public employee unions aiming their ire and indignation at the Democratic Party hands that feed them because of it. State’s largest police union calls for Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo to resign The state’s largest […]

 

Wisconsin Union’s Boycott Likely Illegal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Government union members of AFSCME Council 24 are circulating letters to local businesses in southeast Wisconsin threatening them that if they don’t come to immediate and vocal support of government unions the businesses will be targeted for attack. The union says it won’t be satisfied with statements of neutrality, either. An AFSCME spokesman told the […]

 

Compromised Wisc. Judge Rewrites Stop Order For Union Law… Again

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi has gone back to her order to stop Gov. Scott Walker’s union bill and rewritten it in an effort to assist unions and Democrats (including her Democratic Operative son) continue to ride the gravy train at the expense of the taxpayers. Sumi, whose entire family seems to be up […]

 

Mich. Teachers Assoc. Features Photo of Gov. Snyder as Devil on Facebook Page

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy has a devil of a story. It appears that the Michigan Education Association was hosting a photo of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder replete with bloodspatters and occult symbols making the governor out to be the devil. (See image below) The Mackinac Center alerted the MEA about the offensive image […]

 

Wisconsin Stops Removing Union Dues From Employees Checks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pursuant to Governor Scott Walker’s new rules, as of Monday the State of Wisconsin is no longer taking union dues out of the paychecks of government workers. The state is also charging more for these employee’s healthcare and pensions. Even though there is still a question open of a compromised judge’s ruling to set aside […]

 

The Union Money Party

Posted on by Dave Blount

Why would center-right America elect Democrat politicians, who have increasingly revealed themselves not only to be left, but hard left, and who close observers of current events can’t help but be aware do not like this country or mean it well? Because elections aren’t about common sense — they are about money. Unions have it, […]

 

Michigan: Teachers Trying to Hide Union Activism in School Email Accounts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michigan’s union thugs have found a new way to hide their on-the-job union activism from the prying eyes of public transparency — or at least they think they have. Activist school teachers are using their state-sponsored email accounts to discuss their strike ideas, their union work slow down ideas and other illegal activities but are […]

 

New Tone Watch: OK Firefighter Union Uses OKC Bombing Image In Kill The Bill Effort

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

Oklahoma’s NewsOK reports on a pro-union ad in Oklahoma that has generated controversy (via Jim Hoft): A state senator today blasted a firefighter union television advertisement as “horrific and tasteless” for using images of the Oklahoma City bombing to make a case against his bill. The advertisement by the International Association of Firefighters began airing […]

 

A Union Member’s Plan to Cause Financial Panic in the USA

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A former union executive attended an extremist conference in New York last weekend and there he laid out the sort of plan that every union member dreams of, one that will destroy the American system and replace it with a socialist fantasy run by unions and anti-capitalists. Steve Lerner was a member of one of […]

 

Didn’t FDR execute a few people for doing what this ex-SEIU official is caught on tape espousing?

Posted on by Doug Ross

Runner-up headline: Caught on Tape: Ex-SEIU Hack Openly Plots to Collapse America’s Free Market System and Overthrow the United States Government I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You can’t be a progressive and honestly take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. The progressive agenda is completely, […]

 

Just Can’t Win Dept: Unions Honor Traitor Republicans, Dems Call Unions Traitors

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Traitors to the right of them, traitors to the left of them, traitors in front of them… behind them, around them within them… in the they-just-can’t-win department, unions held a soiree for the traitor Republicans that voted in favor of some of the pro-union provisions in last week’s temporary budget and their pals in the […]

 

Senator Ron Johnson on The Budget and the Debate in Wisconsin

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Recently I was part of a conference call with Senator Ron Johnson (R, Wis). Johnson is a member of the GOP wave that over took Washington in the 2010 midterms. In a surprise to many, Johnson defeated long-time Wisconsin Senator, Democrat Russ Feingold. My first question was one that I have also asked Chief Deputy […]

 

VIDEO: Leftists/Union Wisc. Thugs: An Orgy of Death Threats and Warnings of Violence

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Democrats and their handmaidens in the Old Media have been decrying the evils of the “violent rhetoric” of the Tea Party and Republicans for the better part of two years, now. Yet all the violence and threats of same continue to come mostly from those left of center. The video below shows just a […]

 

In Face of Death Threats, Wisc. GOP Passes Curb on Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last night we reported that the Wisconsin State Senate separated from the budget bill the curbs on government unions that Governor Scott Walker campaigned on achieving and passed it out of committee for a vote by the full Senate. Today, in a smashing success for Wisconsin Republicans, the senate voted on the union curb bill […]

 

Republicans In Wisc. Pass Curbs on Gov’t Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After all the huffing and puffing, we find that Wisconsin’s Republicans have a spine after all. They have taken a step that they have many times threatened and divvied up the budget bill with the provisions to scale back some of the collective bargaining “rights” once had by the state’s government employees and gone ahead […]

 

Loud Mouthed, Hatemongering, Violent Teachers Shut Down Townhall Meeting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Is this the distempered, hatemongering that our “teachers” are teaching our children? The video below is the last seven minutes of a townhall meeting that was held on March 7 in Wisconsin. It was hosted by Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R, WI) and State Senator Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa). The video shows that the pols quietly listened […]

 

Obama’s Chicago Machine Helping Wisconsin Fleebaggers?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Newsradio 620 in Milwaukee has a shocking story about the dirty underground efforts by the Chicago political machine loyal to Rahm Emanuel and President Obama that is apparently applying its dark arts again, this time assisting the leftist, fleebagging Wisconsin State Senators in their efforts to thwart the democratic process in the Badger State. WTMJ […]

 

Why Did Rep. Paul Ryan Vote for Destructive Union Giveaway?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Wisconsin’s Republican Representative Paul Ryan is one of the most well known budget hawks in Congress today. Yet seeming to defy that reputation last week Ryan voted against putting a halt to a budget bloating union giveaway. So what happened? The amendment was an effort to end project labor agreements on federal construction projects in […]

 

Union Waste: Retiring Wisc. Teachers Given a Year’s Salary for 30 Day’s Work

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As each week rolls onward we see more and more of the outrageous waste and unearned perks that government union teachers in Wisconsin are — ahem — fortunate enough to have gotten because of the unions “negotiating” with Wisconsin Democrats over the years. Another such outrage is a program where retiring teachers can earn a […]

 

For Crying Out Loud: Taxpayers Forced To Pay for Union Workers’ Coffee

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is absolutely impossible any more to come up with parody about how much government unions are ripping off the taxpayer. Witness the fact that a city in Connecticut is being forced to pay for the coffee and related refreshment supplies of its government union members. Todd Starnes of Fox News reports that the town […]

 

Michael Moore: Big Fat Union Hypocrite

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With the spotlight on Wisconsin’s union thugs rampaging across the state, one wonders why it took propaganda filmmaker Michael Moore so long to put himself in front of the news cameras to take some of their publicity for himself. But this weekend, Moore finally glommed onto the cameras making himself out to be a great […]

 

Who is Footing Wisconsin Fleebagger’s Bills?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The expenses for the Fleebagging Wisconsin Democratic Senators are mounting. It’s been about a week’s worth of expenses since they’ve gone on the lamb. So, who is paying for all this? There has been rampant speculation that third party donors and union lobbyists have been slipping these Wisc. State Senators some money to pay their […]