The Mackinac Center for Public Policy discovers that the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters uses non-union labor to protest a Grand Rapids area businessman. What’s worse, the union has even recruited demonstrators who frequent local homeless shelters, including a shelter which gets help from the very same businessman targeted by the union.
Archive for Category: "Unions"
February 21, 2011 10:40
Get ready: SEIU’s Purple Army nationwide protest schedule; teachers’ unions pressure members to show “solidarity”
The Purple Army is coming to your town. Don’t let these Big Labor goons monopolize the protest square like they monopolize government workers. – Michelle Malkin
February 21, 2011 08:11
The American People Can’t Afford to Lose Wisconsin Union Showdown
Government unions are simply a parasite on the U.S. economy. When President Obama came into office, he shielded government unions from transparency by ending their reporting requirements to the Department of Labor. As a result it is impossible for the American people to know for sure how much of their taxpayer revenue is being diverted into union coffers.
February 21, 2011 04:59
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Unions and Budget Cuts
Teachers’ unions and representatives of every liberal interest group in the country may have taken over the streets of Madison for demonstrations, marches and speeches, but inside the Wisconsin governor’s mansion its chief tenant remains calm and resolute.
February 19, 2011 19:44
Union protests to spread to more bankrupt states?
Taxpayers have been carrying the public unions and can no longer afford it. Obama ‘is owned by the unions’.
February 19, 2011 16:08
Doctors handing out fake ‘sick’ excuses to union protesters
As tens of thousands of public employees skipped work this week to attend protest rallies outside the Wisconsin State Capitol, many wondered if they would face any disciplinary action for unexcused absences. On Saturday, a group of men and women in lab coats purporting to be doctors were handing out medical excuse notes, without examining the ‘patients.’
February 19, 2011 14:06
Obama And The Unions: A Lawless Alliance?
Last month the president called for civility in politics. Yet now he supports the Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin who unlawfully refuse to do their elected jobs — and the union mobs backing them.
February 19, 2011 13:54
Taxpayers tired of supporting unions in Wisconsin
Calls to State Rep. Michelle Litjens, (R-Wis.), running 10 to 1 in support of pension reform and collective bargaining bill.
February 19, 2011 11:01
White House, Democrats Encouraging Anarchy?
Karl Rove blasts Obama and his campaign operatives for endorsement of illegal activity in Wisconsin union protests and ‘muscling’ Wisconsin’s Republican governor on a local issue.
February 18, 2011 09:27
Wisconsin beginning of ‘Greek’ protests in US?
FBN’s David Asman on the growing number of states taking on public-sector unions in an effort to reduce spending.
