Category: Unions

VIDEO: Government Union Collective Bargaining 101

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Are you a bit hazy on why government employee unions are a problem? If so the Heritage Foundation has made a great video to help you understand the deal. It’s a sort of Government Unions 101. The Heritage Foundation also has a great fact sheet to help you learn more. Here are some of the […]

 

Teacher Thugs Cause $7.5 Million in Damage to Wisc. Capitol Bldg

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Not only are they ripping off Wisconsin’s taxpayers through their lavish salaries, pensions, and benefits, now government employees and their supporters are causing even more expenses born by Wisconsin’s working poor and middle classes because they have caused $7.5 million in damages with their protests at the Wisconsin State capitol building in Madison. According to […]

 

Iowa State University Uses ‘Non-Partisan’ Programs for Hyper Partisan Union Support

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Now, to you and me the word “non-partisan” would mean that no political position should be advocated. Sadly, to the left-wingers that run Iowa State University, “non-partisan” seems to mean just another opportunity for pushing a hyper partisan, left-wing, union-supporting message on students because the union thugs at ISU are now using the Student Ambassadors […]

 

Obama Says Gov’t Employees Not to Blame, Yet in 41 States They Make More Than Everyone

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a recent interview with Channel 4 TV News in Milwaukee, President Obama denied that government employees are responsible for the “budget problems” that the nation faces and that employees such as those in Wisconsin are not to blame. We shouldn’t “vilify” them, he said. Yet, seeming to contradict Obama’s claims USA Today has reported […]

 

Video: WI Dem. Rep. Gordon Hintz understands why he is the minority party

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

Simply priceless to watch: WI Democrat Gordon Hintz: have this meltdown on the Assembly floor.:  Take away his: anger and you’d think he was talking about the Obamacare bill that was rammed down our throats this time last year.:  But, I guess that was different—government takeover of one-sixth of the US economy, increasing health insurance premiums, and stripping […]

 

WI Unions vs. Les Miserables

Posted on by Adrienne Royer

This afternoon, I stumbled on this video of Wisconsin Union protesters singing “Do You Hear the People Sing” from the musical Les Miserables. Aside from making your ears bleed (this is a confusing song to ask a crowd of people to sing!), this seemed rather ironic. (If you want to hear a good recording of […]

 

Government Employee Unions Undemocratic, Unfair, Unsustainable

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A lot has been said about the thuggish behavior of these teachers in Wisconsin and other union toughs across the country who have been caught on tape calling people Hitler and dictators, and attacking peaceful Tea Partiers. The behavior of union supporters has been ignorant to say the least. But as we’ve focused on the […]

 

New Tone: After Budget Vote, Wis. Democrat Tells Fellow Rep. ‘You Are F***ing Dead’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Democrat’s “new tone” rolls ever onward… into the ditch. After the latest vote on the Budget Repair Bill last Friday, Democrat State Representative Gordon Hintz (54th District) turned to fellow Representative Michelle Litjens (R, 56th District) and said: “You are F***ing Dead!” Nice “new tone,” isn’t it? But it fits well with his pals […]

 

AFL-CIO Union Chief: We Need to Raise Taxes to Pay Union Members More

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You know the old saying, “stupid is as stupid does”? Enter the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka, one of the most violence prone union presidents in America, who has come up with a brilliant strategy to solve America’s troubles. He says we need to raise taxes to pay his union members even higher salaries and we need […]

 

Wisconsin Democrat Fleebaggers violate Senate Rule 23

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

Yes, Rule 23: Senate Rule 23 : : : Senate Rule 23. Committee not to be absent. Members of a committee, except a conference committee, may not be absent by reason of their appointment during the sitting of the senate, without special leave. [am. 2001 S.Res. 2] emphasis mine I’m a literal type of gal, and “may not” […]

 

VIDEO: Calif. Union Goon Pushes Tea Partier While Yelling About ‘Fascists,’ Another Attacks Man in Georgia

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Union animals escalating violence across the country… BigGovernment.com has the startling tale of a Teamster Jacket-wearing union goon attacking a Tea Party member at a protest held in Sacramento, California. Naturally, even as this union scumbag was manhandling a Tea Partier, he was yelling through a bullhorn that Tea Partiers are “fascists.” The union thug […]

 

National Education Association to Double Members’ Dues Spent on Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even as it tops the list of organizations spending money on political causes, the National Education Association (NEA) is planning to double the amount of its members’ dues spent on politics so that it can spend yet more on political campaigns — and all left-wing causes to boot. Last year the NEA teachers union spent […]

 

Wisconsin’s largest teachers’ union is an extremely profitable insurance business that just happens to support education on the side

Posted on by Doug Ross

Like me, you may be a little confused about the nature of the fight between the public sector unions and Wisconsin Republicans. After all, the unions are just upset about having to pay for some of their benefits, right? Wrong. …the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the largest teachers union in the state, has grossly abused […]

 

California Gov’t Unions Waste Millions Fighting for Health Care Contracts

Posted on by Jane Jamison

In California, big government labor unions like the SEIU are making so many millions of dollars by forcing employee membership, that they are increasingly becoming embroiled in huge, expensive litigations over anything and everything. If California government union workers really knew and understood how much of their money is being stolen and squandered and spent […]

 

Wii-Stripping & Talking Fetuses: The Feminist Left Reacts to the Union Thug Assault on FreedomWorks’ Tabitha Hale

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Originally posted at NewsReal … The patriarchy is afoot! How else to explain the feminist Left’s conspicuously absent outrage after a male union member assaulted FreedomWorks staffer Tabitha Hale in Washington, D.C. this week? As steadfast defenders of women, surely feminists spoke out about this act of aggression against a 5′ 1″ woman and her […]

 

VIDEO: Absurd Leftists Fool People Into Fearing That Wisconsin Budget Bill is Crafted to Kill People

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Wisconsin’s MacIver Institute reports on how left-wing radicals are fooling sick people in Wisconsin into imagining that Governor Walker’s budget proposal is meant to kill all sick people. Here is one of those poor people that have been bamboozled into imagining that they are going to be killed by the state of Wisconsin because Governor […]

 

Union Admits It Hates Voters And Loves Communist Imagery With Help of Dropkick Murphys Band

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Proving that there seems to have been a good reason that in many eras of American history the “Irish Need Not Apply,” a bunch of drunken morons calling themselves the Dropkick Murphys have added their off key voices to American union thuggery by writing a protest song that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has […]

 

Video: Stop Obama and His Union Bosses!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Courtesy of the Republican National Committee… This is exactly right. While every state is drowning in debt, Barack Obama and the billions that unions have spent on him and his Democrat Party is being put toward thwarting the will of the voters and to making the state’s and the federal government’s debt far, far worse.

 

Runaway Indiana Democrats Found

Posted on by Dave Blount

Wisconsin Democrats aren’t the only ones willing to throw a wrench into the gears of democracy to block the will of voters. Indiana has a similar problem: A majority of the Democratic members of the Indiana House of Representatives have temporarily moved to an Urbana hotel in an effort to prevent votes on bills they […]

 

All Teachers Unions Must Fall, Not Just Wisconsin’s

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The lies that have been peddled by the unions in Wisconsin are legion. They are claiming that Walker has a budget surplus he’s hiding, he isn’t. They have been claiming that it “isn’t about the money,” but it is. They have even claimed to be “sick” by having real doctors issue falsified sick letters so […]

 

Hate is What Unions Sell

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This situation in Wisconsin has brought out the truth about unions: they peddle hate. Unions are exactly what Democrats try to claim the Tea Party is, a hate-filled, uncivil, mob of name callers. Unionistas use hateful and violent rhetoric, they call everyone that opposes them Hitler and they lie about their ultimate goals. Many of […]

 

Defunding Obama’s Union Led Regulatory Army

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You might recall that with great fanfare and the slobberingly positive coverage by the Old Media, President Obama made Reagan-like and claimed that he thought it was time to get rid of the regulations strangling American business. Since that time he’s met with businesses and pretended to suddenly be a pro-business, pro-economic growth president. His […]

 

Wisc. and Ind. Democrats: Union Cash Driving Democrats to Run and Hide

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With Democrat state legislators in Wisconsin and now Indiana fleeing their states so that they don’t have to do their job — just call them fleebaggers — it would be easy to assume that Democrats are cowards. If not cowards, then petulant children throwing temper tantrums because voters did not give them a power-lock majority. […]

 

Mike Capuano: Thug 4 Life

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

“He’s a thug, plain and simple,” says Pundette, after Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Mike Capuano demonstrated the liberal “New Tone” at a union rally in Boston: “I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out […]