Archive for Category: "Unions"

March 23, 2011 07:13

Union funded Rep. Hoyer whines about miniscule cuts

Hoyer is one of the all time highest recipients of union contributions. He told a CNSNews reporter that the $100 billion in proposed cuts is a “meat axe approach” and “reckless”.

March 23, 2011 05:30

Beck exposes union plan to crash the economy

An SEIU official lays out a plan to crash the stock market and force bank failures. This is an important expose of the real intentions of the left.

March 22, 2011 09:30

The Left’s Economic Terrorism Playbook: Coalition too Destroy US Capitalism and Redistribute Wealth

The Chase Campaign for a Coalition of Unions, Community Groups, Lawmakers and Students to Take Down US Capitalism and Redistribute Wealth & Power

March 22, 2011 07:17

Obama’s favorite union takes over bank

SEIU protesters swarmed a bank and refused to leave. This is the same union that was so supportive of Obama in 2008 and the one Obama claimed he consulted before all his policy decisions.

March 18, 2011 09:39

Wolf Packs: Wisconsin’s Public-Sector Unions Turn Into Neighborhood Thugs

In days of old, this type of activity was relegated to street gangs and the mafia. Today, it’s just another tactic in the union arsenal of intimidation.

March 18, 2011 07:54

House Hearing Reveals the Truth About the Obamacare Waivers – more favoritism

HHS bureaucrats know exactly what company’s application they are reviewing and whether they are union plans. This has arguably led to the disproportional acceptance of waiver application from large corporations and unions.

March 18, 2011 06:22

Progressive Government Is Obsolete

A system that hires without discretion, promotes without considering performance, and lays off teachers without regard to merit cannot truly serve its citizens. – WSJ

March 18, 2011 06:12

Union equates lavish benefits to black civil rights

To make the point, the AFL-CIO is planning a series of nationwide events on April 4, the 43rd anniversary of the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated after speaking in Memphis, Tenn., on behalf of striking black garbage collectors. The message: King’s cause, and that of angry schoolteachers in Madison, are one.

March 18, 2011 05:50

How Public Employee Unions Are Bankrupting the Nation, Part II

Last week we presented you with the first part of our interview with Steven Greenhut, author of Plunder: How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives, and Bankrupting the Nation.

March 17, 2011 04:45

Taxpayers Have Rights, Too

To equally respect everyone’s rights, politicians would have to end the public schooling monopoly, setting both educators and parents free. But that would decimate union power, and all their current rhetoric about rights notwithstanding, unions would fight madly to keep that from happening.