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Union Illegally Gets County Worker?s Contact Info
2008-10-07 17:48:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Government workers from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania have been finding unwelcome visitors at the doorsteps since mid-August. Union organizers from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) mysteriously found themselves in possession of the home addresses of every government worker in the county. This is, of course, illegal… yet, magically, the SEIU has the ...
By: Publius Forum
Comparative Bodyweight of Australian Professional Rugby Union and Rugby Lea
2008-10-06 07:20:00 Over the past few decades Australian Rugby Union and Rugby League players have been getting progressively heavier. Contributing factors have included an increased emphasis on heavy weight training, the use of dietary supplements and the high proportion of Pacific Islanders in teams of both codes. Nevertheless there remains a clear tendency for professional Union players to be heavier than League players as the following table illustrates:Comparative Bodyweight of Australian Professional Rugby Union and Rugby League Forwards and BacksSquad/Team (2008) Av Weight (kg) - ForwardsAv Weight (kg) - BacksDifference(kg)Rugby UnionAustralian Wallabies - Squad110.593.417.1NSW Waratahs - Squad110.993.217.7ACT Brumbies - Squad110.093.817.2Rugby LeagueManly Sea Eagles ? Grand Final Team101.189.411.7Melbourne Storm ? Grand Final Team103.792.611.1Like Soccer and Australian Football, Rugby League is a continuous-flow type game, whereas Rugby Union is characterised by frequent stoppages with a signif...
Union Lobbyist: ?I Broke The Law All The Time?
2008-10-03 17:39:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Confessions of a criminal… well, that is what this new memoir should be titled, but it isn’t. The Bellingham Herald (Washington State) is reporting on the publication of a new memoir by Joe Miller who was once a lobbyist for various unions and Democratic Party candidates. In it he admits that he ...
By: Publius Forum
Teachers Union Using The Classroom to Push Barack Obama
2008-10-03 11:38:00 -By Warner Todd Huston A teachers union in Virginia sponsored an “Obama blue day” in schools throughout the state for teachers to show their support for Obama in the classroom. The plan was for teachers to come to work with a blue shirt to show solidarity with Obama. Naturally — and properly — the Virginia GOP is ...
By: Publius Forum
Oltrezona - Strange Union
2008-09-30 15:34:00 Band: OltrezonaAlbum: Strange UnionYear: 2008Country: ItalyGenre: MetalcoreLength: 37:46 MinFilesize: 54 MBTracklist:- Strange Union- Pacha Mama- Oltrezona- Respect for My Friends- La Raza- Dark Side- Sick Lobotomy- So Rock- SpeedClick Here
Union Patronage: Millions Paid to Family Members of Union Bigwigs
2008-09-29 11:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The L.A. Times has really got it out for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), I have to say. On September 26, the Times published another one of its investigations into the corrupt union activities, this time revealing that SEIU union bigwigs have funneled millions of dollars to little companies owned by ...
By: Publius Forum
Union Operative Infiltrates Grocery Store to Organize
2008-09-24 17:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston It’s like some sort of spy novel gone bad where the Soviet Agents are somehow the good guys. A grocery store worker and union member that makes over $20 an hour “quits” his job and starts a job in another grocery store making only $10 an hour just so he can cajole ...
By: Publius Forum
Union?s Troubles Deepen: Child-Porn Case Revealed
2008-09-14 16:54:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The troubled Service Employee International Union (SEIU) in California is seeing yet another explosion of negative publicity this week as one of its Local chiefs is arrested for possessing child pornography. The Sacramento Bee is reporting Local 1000 District Labor Council 784 Jaime E. Feliciano, 49, was arrested Tuesday, September 9. Authorities ...
By: Publius Forum
Union Democracy Group Says SEIU?s New ?Ethics Commission? a Scam
2008-09-13 10:52:00 -By Warner Todd Huston For those of you following the several recent L.A.Times stories ( see here, here, here and here), the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) has been embroiled in scandal over misuse of funds in California and Michigan. Several SEIU head operatives have vacated their positions of power and all are tied to SEIU ...
By: Publius Forum
New Listing: FOR LEASE- Lake Union Floating Home
2008-09-13 01:36:00 2035 Fairview Ave E- Wandesforde Dock This beautifully designed 2 bedroom + den/ 1.75 bath Craftsman-style houseboat features a very spacious and open floorplan boasting with warm-rustic northwest character and charm! With over 1,100 SF, vaulted ceilings, tons of windows and skylights, natural light flourishes throughout all rooms while illuminating the wood beams/accents and projecting water reflections ...
Union Busters, Inc.
2008-09-12 11:21:00 Check it out. I shouldn't really have to explain this link to most of my readers, but for those who don't get it, this is a corporation that sells materials to other corporations to help them defeat unions.Check out the Union Avoidance link - snarky management bastards giving the high-fives for defeating the workers' attempts to level the playing field with management by voting in a union.Check out the Employee Satisfaction link. If you really want your employees to be satisfied, let em form a union, what the Hell. If you're going to give them everything (just about) that they would have gotten anyway if they formed a union, so let them form a union. Why not? Possibly power.This is hard for most American morons to figure out. In a non-union workplace, management has 100% of the power. Management and ownership always has a voice, and always has power, in any workplace. Why shouldn't workers have the exact same power, and voice, as management always has, in any workplace? This i...
By: Robert Lindsay
Australian Union Joins Fight Over Asbestos Cleanup
2008-09-09 19:37:00 According to a recent report one of the largest unions in Australia is joining a battle aimed at getting the New South Wales government to clean up an abandoned mine that has allegedly led to a number of people contracting asbestos related health problems. The union, The Australia Manufacturers Workers Union, is joining forces with ...
Union Stands Against Democracy and Local Participation
2008-09-04 22:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The more we learn of the management style of President Andy Stern of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) the more we see that he is an authoritarian as bad as any top-down led corporation that he and his union might criticize. And this newest abuse of office that his protege in ...
By: Publius Forum
Big storms stir up fishing - Florida Times-Union
2008-08-31 13:08:00 Big storms stir up fishingFlorida Times-Union, FL -14 hours agoWilliams spends lots of time on the St. Johns River south of the Shands Bridge bass fishing and alligator hunting. He said the bass do feed in anticipation … More: continued here © The Pro Fisher Guy for Pro Bass Fishing Strategies, Tips, Info and Secrets, 2008. | ...
Washington State: Teachers Union Stands Against Stopping Sex Slavery!
2008-08-29 10:12:00 State labor board allows teacher to give union dues to charity that fights sex-trafficking Union objected to the selection of this charity The Evergreen Freedom Foundation OLYMPIA?The Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) has ruled that Susan Wiggs, a Vancouver middle school teacher, is free to send her union dues to a charity that fights sex-trafficking, despite the union?s ...
By: Publius Forum
Factory had tension between union, immigrants
2008-08-28 17:55:00 Factory had tension between union, immigrants LAUREL, Miss. - Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions. Friction between the union and immigrant workers, along with a tipoff at an electrical manufacturing plant, ...
By: TexasFred's
Union Disses the Kids
2008-08-26 22:06:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The kids at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill feel like they’ve been used and discarded by Andy Stern’s Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and they aren’t happy about it. They are so upset they’ve issued an open letter to the SEIU to air their grievances… not that it’ll matter ...
By: Publius Forum
Portland: Union Workers Physically Attack Worker Free Choice Rally
2008-08-25 22:03:00 -By Warner Todd Huston With more on the card check battle, we have a rally against Unions set up in Portland, Maine where members of the SEIU and the AFL-CIO confronted the pro-choice advocates in a typically uncivil, even threatening, union manner. One union thug even turned over a display table, trying to prevent the pro-choice ...
By: Publius Forum
More On Union Thug Tyrone Freeman
2008-08-25 10:02:00 -By The Heritage Foundation With continuing coverage of the Tyrone Freeman investigations (see Here and Here) in L.A., here is an entry from the Heritage Foundation Daily Bell updating us. Can Our Economy Afford More Union Corruption? The president of California?s largest union local, the 160,000-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Los Angeles, yesterday announced he would ...
By: Publius Forum
Teamsters Dumps Old Union Boss Family
2008-08-22 21:57:00 -By Warner Todd Huston James Hoffa, Jr. is trying to make it look like he is reforming the Teamsters by forcing out Robert Hogan, former President of Teamsters Local 714, a member of a long time, corruption prone union family. The IRB alleged that Hogan had acted against the best interests of union members by hiring ...
By: Publius Forum
Mystery of Sexual Ecstasy and Union
2008-08-22 08:28:00 1.if anyone asks you,'how the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wanting will look?'lift your face and say,like this!if anyone wonders,'how Jesus raised the dead!'don't try to explain the miracle.kiss me on the lips,like this!when some one asks,'what it means to die for love?'point here!when lovers moan,they are telling our story.like this!- Embracing the Mystery - Rumi, version by Coleman Barks2.And the companion of [the saviour was] Mary Magdalene. [Christ loved] her more than [all] the disciples, [and used to] kiss her [often]. - Gospel of PhilipThe Nag Hammadi texts also spoke of the intimate relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, even referring to her as his "beloved."3.The Baal Shem Tov asked why people love children so much. His answer was that a child is a human being who is still very close to his or her conception, and since there was so much ecstasy in the conception, it still shows in the child. As the child grows older, the ecstasy slowly evaporates. ...
Union Thugs Beat Member for Disagreeing With Party Line
2008-08-21 15:54:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Members of the carpenters union in New York City have ruined any chance that authorities there will take their union out of government oversight by beating unconscious William Davenport, a union dissident running for office in the union. After an August 5 candidates forum, the candidate was beaten by members of the carpenters ...
By: Publius Forum
State of the Union Address
2008-08-19 10:01:00 Here's a riddle for you: what's covered in three inches of dust, makes a disturbing popping sound and is covered in plastic and extension cords?That would be my house.Things are coming along fine, thanks for asking, after four separate concrete pours we now have beautiful front steps that are so pretty I impulsively run up and down them several times a day in a Rocky Balboa move that has the neighbors staring. Our contractor started framing the addition on Saturday so you can actually tell we're in motion here and already it's starting to look exciting (I catch Andrew sneaking home at lunch to peak at the progress).I knew it would be this way but we're heading into the part of the remodel that we shall not dwell on too much for fear of sounding grumpy. The part where they've shut off power in the bedrooms, shut down my garage door and covered the flooring in protective plastic to keep the mud at a minimum. The boys have long orange extension cords threaded through the house...
By: Scribbit
Union Tries to Interfere in Petition Results, Fails
2008-08-18 15:49:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Denver right-to-work balloters won a small victory last week when a judge accepted the legitimacy of the gathered signatures on their ballot effort by tossing out a nuisance lawsuit brought against them by unions. The union representatives sought to have more than the legally required amount of petition signatures verified hoping to ...
By: Publius Forum
Union Loses in California, Now Trying to go National
2008-08-17 15:46:00 -By Warner Todd Huston One of the most annoying sayings in American politics is “what happens in California will next happen in the rest of the country” as if California is always at the cusp of all the good ideas in politics. Well, apparently the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) is finding that old bromide not ...
By: Publius Forum
Union, Charity Paid Thousands to Firms Owned by Official?s Relatives
2008-08-14 15:42:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The L.A.Times had a great investigative story this week about typical union corruption. Before going into the story, I’ll remind you that Barack Obama is promising the unions that he will gut the Office of Labor Management Standards responsible for rooting out and prosecuting union corruption. It seems Obama thinks unions are ...
By: Publius Forum
Union Negotiates State Contract While Running TV Ads for Governor
2008-08-13 21:39:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Interestingly, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is spending thousands upon thousands of dollars on TV, radio and print ads helping Washington State’s Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire get reelected. This is the same Governor that the SEIU is negotiating a new contract with for state workers in that union. Naturally, Gregoire’s Republican ...
By: Publius Forum
Corruption With Boston Fireman?s Union Disability Claims
2008-08-10 15:35:00 -By Warner Todd Huston On August 6, the Boston Herald reported the good news that Boston’s Retirement Board finally turned down the disability retirement claim of a fireman that was filmed participating in a bodybuilding contest even as he claimed that permanent back injuries suffered on the job had ended his firefighting career. The Herald hoped ...
By: Publius Forum
Even George McGovern is Against Anti-Democratic ?Card Check? Union Plan
2008-08-08 21:32:00 -By Warner Todd Huston On August 8, George McGovern had an editorial published by the Wall Street Journal that astounds for the fact that it runs counter to union aims. In it, McGovern warns the unions against their woefully misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act,” the legislation that has as one of its main goals the elimination of ...
By: Publius Forum
CA Teachers Union Illegally Uses Dues for Political Campaigns
2008-08-06 21:27:00 -By Warner Todd Huston On Friday, August 1, the Press-Telegram of Long Beach, CA reported that the Teachers Association of Long Beach (TALB) has apparently been using general union funds to assist political campaigns of favored candidates for school board during the 2006 and 2008 campaign season. At least $110,000 was illegally used for political purposes. An ...
By: Publius Forum
Union Negotiates UnAmerican Holiday, Dumps Labor Day
2008-08-06 09:26:00 -By Warner Todd Huston A new 5-year contract between workers and the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn. has been negotiated in which the American holiday Labor Day has been eliminated as an official holiday to be replaced by the Muslim holy day Eid al-Fitr According to a news release from the Retail, Wholesale and ...
By: Publius Forum
Union Demands City Stop Saving Money
2008-08-04 15:24:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The School District in the City of Madison, Ohio will save $300,000 each year for the next 5 years by privatizing their school busses. Naturally, the union is trying to stop this savings by taking the city to court. Apparently, the union contract for the school busses ran out and the city decided ...
By: Publius Forum
Big Surprise: Anti-Union Wal-Mart Is Pressuring Workers To Vote For John Mc
2008-08-01 17:18:00 Nation’s Largest Employer Plantation Pressures Employees To Vote Against Barack Obama Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal’s Ann Zimmerman and Kris Maher, we learn “The Smiley... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the latest rantings of a gun toting liberal with a chip on his shoulder... harsh views, comments expressed.
DoL Urged to Investigate Union Extortion of its Own Members
2008-07-31 21:13:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Wall Street Journal today has an interesting little story highlighting a newly adopted change to the constitution of the powerful Service Employees International Union. At issue is whether it is legal for the union to require the locals to “donate” the equivalent of $6 per member to the SEIU political action ...
By: Publius Forum
Union?s Lawsuit Against Its Own Members Fails
2008-07-31 03:11:00 -By Warner Todd Huston You’d be excused if you felt like you fell down Alice’s rabbit hole with this story, only you’d soon discover that this Alice is named Andy, and it is quite real, indeed. Not long ago, Andy Stern, the radical chief of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), tried to sue members of ...
By: Publius Forum
?God?s? Ex-Shah, Indulal Shah
2008-07-30 02:50:00 Indulal Shah, of Mumbai, India, was the world head of the Sathya Sai Organization, and, previously, for decades, the head of the Indian wing of that organization. In June 1993, at the time of the Puttaparthi police killings in Sathya Sai Baba?s bedroom, Indulal Shah rose to his height in adroit and politically powerful suppressive actions ...
Union vs. Private Sector Pensions: How Secure Are Union Members? Retirement
2008-07-29 15:07:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In a follow up report to our earlier coverage, the Hudson Institute has unveiled its damning study on the largely ubiquitous insolvency of the pensions plans of the nation’s largest unions (download PDF here) Excerpts: At a time when unions are intensifying efforts to organize American workers, it?s troubling to see a widespread ...
By: Publius Forum
Iowans Arrested While Arresting Rove: Iowa, the Coolest State in the Union
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By: Tumerica
Wal-Mart Strikes Pay Deal With Chinese Union. China Law Blog Was There.
2008-07-28 05:09:00 Interesting Forbes Magazine article, by Matthew Kirdahy, entitled, "Wal-Mart Strikes Pay Deal With Chinese Union." Article is on Wal-Mart's having reached wage agreements with China's official union, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) in Quanzhou, Shenyang and Shenzhen. Gist of the article is that Wal-Mart's agreement was necessary to stay in good with the government: Dave Orlins, president of the National Committee of U.S. China Relations, said the agreement is crucial to Wal-Mart's business. "To expand in China, one needs government support," he says. "This is what you should be doing in China." And Wal-Mart knows as much. "We support these efforts because of the valuable, mutually beneficial partnership the government-run union offers and because of their commitment to assisting businesses in our growth and development in China," said Kevin Gardner, a Wal-Mart spokesman. Wal-Mart's agreement with its Shenyang employees calls for an 8% pay increase in bo...
By: China Law Blog
Union Outsourcing it?s Own Web Design to Eastern Europe?
2008-07-20 07:52:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Unions have been decrying outsourcing for years. The word “outsourcing” has been used as a boogieman to blame declining union jobs upon for the last decade. Unions, for their part, claim to desire to stand up against outsourcing — especially that of outsourcing jobs overseas — and wish to push the home ...
By: Publius Forum
Teachers Union Head Seeks to Become Tin Pot Dictator
2008-07-20 07:52:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Randi Weingarten has delusions of grandeur. She thinks she should be given the power of a dictator instead of those of a teachers union president. Instead of just teaching kids, Weingarten imagines that she should become doctor, nanny, nutritionist, psychologist, and mother to every kid in America. She imagines that she ...
By: Publius Forum
Union Square
2008-07-18 19:42:00 One thing, among the millions of others, that bothers me about NYC is this place called Union Square. The place itself doesn't bug me. It's actually a nice park with a farmer's market and a holiday bazaar at Christmas time. Nice neighborhood with... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
By: Gerri Atric
Denver' Has Too Many Non-Union Businesses To Capture Convention Business
2008-07-17 18:24:00 According to The Union News, Denver, Colorado, the host of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, has too many non-uniohttp://www.blogger.com/-img/gl.link.gifn businesses to take advantage of all of the available convention business. Chris Lopez, the communications head of the Denver host committee, and in my video, says that:union restrictions and the needs of people planning events might be limiting who gets convention work. For example, printers used by the DNCC must be union shops and there's only a handful of such businesses in Colorado.The Rockymountainnews reports that print shops must be union, but there are scant few in Colorado, so those that aren't don't get work. Well, time for Colorado to "union-up."
Union Pacific (UNP): 'Railroad renaissance'
2008-07-15 00:00:00 "Railroads are a play on three big secular themes: the drive for increased energy efficiency, growth in coal and the agriculture boom," says Elliott Gue (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2179), a energy sector expert who has been in Japan covering the G8 Summit.Meanwhile, in his The Energy Srategist (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2179), he states, "Railroads are now among the most fuel-efficient forms of freight transport available." Here, he offers a bullish review of Union Pacific (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=unp) (NYSE: UNP (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=unp)). "My long-held thesis on the group has been that the railroads are no longer totally dependent on the US economy for their growth. "It’s no longer appropriate to look at this sector as viciously economy sensitive. The traditional relationship between the broader market and the rails has been breaking down for several years, but this trend appea...
NJ Guv?s Girlfriend Removed From Union Job Over Theft of Union Funds
2008-07-13 18:44:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The ex-girlfried of Governor John Corzine (D- NJ), Carla Katz, found herself in a spot of bother this week. It seems she was removed from the presidency of the largest state-worker union in New Jersey because an internal investigation revealed she had “misappropriated” union funds and violated Federal labor laws. “An extensive internal ...
By: Publius Forum
NJ Guv?s Girlfriend Removed From Union Job Over Theft of Union Funds
2008-07-12 18:43:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The ex-girlfried of Governor John Corzine (D- NJ), Carla Katz, found herself in a spot of bother this week. It seems she was removed from the presidency of the largest state-worker union in New Jersey because an internal investigation revealed she had “misappropriated” union funds and violated Federal labor laws. “An extensive internal ...
By: Publius Forum
L.A. Outlaws Non-Union Truckers
2008-07-11 06:42:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Pretending they are interested in “clean air,” the kindly union bought folks in the Mayor’s office in Los Angeles signed a new law that makes independent trucking basically illegal in the ports of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed the law on the 26th that requires independent truckers to join trucking companies, and, ...
By: Publius Forum
Update on NY School Bus Union Mob Ties
2008-07-03 12:38:00 -By Warner Todd Huston We’ve reported on this story several times in the past and we have a conclusion for at least one of the mobbed-up participants in this case. The former president of the union representing 15,000 New York school bus drivers, Salvatore Battaglia, has been sentenced to four years and nine months in Federal ...
By: Publius Forum
Another Blissful Union Thwarted
2008-07-02 20:33:00 I don?t know about you, but I?m just so bummed right now that Blockbuster has withdrawn its million-dollar hostile bid to take over Circuit City (here).I mean, here we have Blockbuster, a company sued by the state of New Jersey over fraudulently hiding its late fees (here), sued also by Netflix over patent infringement since BB tried to allow customers to rent videos by mail (here ? Netflix is great, by the way) and sued also by a Texas woman because BB participated in the Facebook Beacon program and shared her rental information online without her permission (what geniuses ? here).And they were all set to purchase Circuit City, a company sued for age discrimination (here) as well as violations concerning the California ?Do Not Call? law (here), and in addition to that, a gang that faced more legal action in NJ on charges of false advertising and consumer fraud (here). What a match it would have been!Sharing each others? litigation costs alone would have driven both of them out of b...
Washington State?s Union Bought Governor
2008-06-28 07:33:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Democrat Governor Christine Gregoire won the governorship of Washington State in 2004 under a cloud of suspicion and possible voter fraud. The election was very close and after a recount Gregoire’s Republican rival still had the win. But, the Democrats weren’t happy with the recount. They wanted a second and calls went ...
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