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Huntsman?s solid statement on civil unions
2012-01-09 04:47:00 Of all the candidates in Saturday night?s ABC News /Yahoo!/WMUR-TV New Hampshire Republican primary debate, Jon Huntsman offered the best (and most coherent) statement on state recognition of same-sex relationships: Well, personally, I think civil unions are fair. I support them. I think there?s such a thing as equality under the law. I?m a married ...
By: GayPatriot
Illinois couples taking advantage of civil unions
2011-12-13 06:57:00 According to a release from Equality Illinois, almost 4000 couples have taken advantage of the new Civil Union law that went into effect in Illinois on June 1st. I know that I was one of those couples when I married, er I mean Civil Unionized, with my partner this summer. Equality Illinois went to every... Read more »
No Link Between State Budget Deficits and Public Sector Unions
2011-10-31 02:06:00 BY JON MELEGRITO (afscme.org) There is no link between state budget deficits and public sector unions. That’s the definitive finding of a study released this week by the University of California, Berkeley. Commenting on the report from the university’s Center for Labor Research and Education and Center for Wage and Employment Dynamics, the Economic Policy Institute correctly ...
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#US: #OccupyWallStreets gets support from #unions
2011-10-04 20:44:00 Via Scoop.it – Revolutionary newsRTShow original
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Obama's Union-Sold Regulatory Agency Goes Even Further for Unions
2011-06-23 19:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston With one regulatory decision after anther, Obama's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has repeatedly abused its position and lent its powers to come to the material aid of Big Labor. This week we see the NLRB coming to the aid of unions yet again by changing rules to fast track union votes in businesses not yet suffering under union control. The NLRB has ruled that unions trying to strong arm their way into businesses will now be afforded a sort of fast tracked voting process meant to give both businesses and employees far, far less time to learn about and understand the issues surrounding a vote in favor of unionization. Currently when a union wants to...
Obama Puts Unions Ahead of a Healthy Economy, Free Trade
2011-06-15 16:06:00 -By Warner Todd Huston President Obama claims that he wants to "create jobs," and is happily touting several policies that he claims will create jobs in this jobless, non-recovery. Unfortunately, all his polices really do is shore up the high cost unions that kill job growth. As GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell says, Obama has "relentlessly pursued an agenda that is radically opposed" to job growth. Speaking on the floor last Tuesday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, "For two and a half years, Democrats in Washington have paid lip service to the idea of job creation -- even as they've relentlessly pursued an agenda that is radically opposed to it... Democrats don't want to admit that the government-driven...
New Civil Unions Law Already Infringing on Religious Freedom
2011-06-04 16:00:00 From Lake County Right to Life... (Grayslake, IL - June 2, 2011) Illinois' Civil Unions law went into effect June 1, and even State Sen. David Koehler, sponsor of the bill in the senate, is frustrated with its repercussions to religious freedom. Koehler made it clear that the law, ironically named "The Religious Freedom Protection Act and Civil Union Act," was intended to protect the rights of social service organizations, including adoption agencies, to carry out their duties according to their faith. But months ago, activists began challenging the ability of religious childcare agencies to prohibit the placement of children with same-sex couples, so Sen. Koehler proposed a religious exemption amendment to protect the rights of these agencies. Despite lobbying...
Same-Sex Couples First Illinois Civil Unions
2011-06-02 22:30:00 It was a historic day for same-sex couples in Illinois. 33 couples exchanged vows today in Millennium Park, sanctioned by Circuit Court judges and a minister. It would be the first civil unions acknowledged by the State of Illinois since the passing of the Civil Union Bill signed by Governor Quinn. The couples, both men and women, were surrounded by family and friends to witness this long waited event. They were asked to wear violet or purple to the ceremony as a sign of unity. Both Governor Quinn and Mayor Emanuel spoke at the event, with Emanuel praising Quinn for passing the Bill. The Chicago Gay Men's chorus preformed to a packed crowd. Openly gay State Representatives Deborah Mell, Kelly...
Civil Unions Will Be Legal Tomorrow...
2011-05-31 15:00:00 Many people are asking if my partner and I are going to have a "Civil Union", so I have decided to take to my blog and answer all and explain why
NJ Unions Hiding Behind Courts to Continue Ripping Off Taxpayers
2011-05-17 18:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The next level of obduracy by New Jersey's government employee unions has been taken. The Communication Workers of America, the state's largest government workers union, has filed a suit against New Jersey Governor Chris Christie claiming he isn't negotiating in good faith over the union's healthcare contract. You see Gov. Christie wants to change the contract so that the union members contribute up to 30% of their healthcare premium and introduce lower the cost benefit plans....
Civil Unions: Do You Want to be Married or Do You Want to be Able to Divor
2011-05-16 15:00:00 I've been thinking about civil unions quite a bit lately. So much so that I started remembering a couple of guys I knew "back in the day."One of them was a college student who quietly came out to his friends. He was not about to tell his family under any circumstances. He would socialize with his straight friends and then his other life would start. We were not introduced to anyone involved in his lifestyle nor was their any significant other in his life. The times back then was filled with one night stands for heterosexuals as well as homosexuals.The other guy was a college professor. I don't believe he ever told his family either. He was very handsome...
Top Worst State Budgets: Unions Have Put EVERY State's Budget In The H
2011-04-05 17:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Illinois in Top Ten WORST States... 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 spend government budgets into a black hole of trouble what happens? Apparently the citizens are expected to lose more of their own money for the comfort of government union members and to assist big spending Democrat politicians to keep indulging a wild bacchanalia of spending. The worst mess that states are in is because government...
In Face of Death Threats, Wisc. GOP Passes Curb on Unions
2011-03-11 02:29:00 -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 and passed it. And all this in the face of death threats and attempted mob rule by Democrats and their union thug masters. The final vote count was 53 in favor and 42 opposed. Four Republicans broke ranks with the leadership and voted with the Democrats, but the bill still goes to Gov. Walker's desk for his signature and will then...
Republicans In Wisc. Pass Curbs on Gov't Unions
2011-03-10 06:43:00 -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 and passed the thing. On Wednesday night, the Wisconsin Senate -- minus the fleebagging Democrats that have run off to Illinois -- separated from the budget bill the part of the previous legislation that eliminates some, but not all, of the collective bargaining capacity of government workers. Even though the past legislation could not be passed without a quorum because of...
Teachers Unions are not about education. Their main purpose is to agitate
2011-03-02 05:40:00 Teachers Unions are not about education. Their main purpose is to agitate. see the photo from the NYSUT (New York State Union of Teachers). The above image was sent to Michele Malkin by retired New York teacher Vinnie Cusimano. He writes: "I have been a teacher for 32+ years, retired several years, and am STUCK in the union dues...I dislike most of the union activities and usually throw out their papers. This one caught my attention and instead of having dinner, I copied this thing with OUTRAGE... You have to read the cover of the paper... "Defend What Matters, Educate, Collaborate, AGITATE." Where are we going? ...[E]ncouraging intelligent people to "AGITATE" in the streets???"...
Government Employee Unions Undemocratic, Unfair, Unsustainable
2011-03-01 20:30:00 -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 behavior of these ignoramuses, we've also neglected to explain just why their unions are illicit in the first place. To start with we should remind everyone that government employees have not always been allowed to unionize. Collective bargaining for pubic employees only started in 1958 after New York Mayor Robert Wagner signed what came to be called "the Little Wagner Act"...
All Teachers Unions Must Fall, Not Just Wisconsin's
2011-02-24 18:30:00 -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 that they can play hooky from school, shutting down both Wisconsin's government and its schools. These lefties have also claimed that Governor Walker has surprised everyone with his anti-union drive. On the that last one, nothing could be further than the truth. Governor Walker's entire political career has been filled with similar pronouncements, policies, and attempts at policies. But there is...
It's a law: Quinn puts final stamp on civil unions
2011-02-01 22:18:00 Gov. Pat Quinn holds up the signed bill Monday. (RedEye photo)From today's RedEye:As Gov. Quinn signed into law a measure legalizing civil unions for gay couples on Monday, the jubilation from the crowd of cheering men and women was tempered by a belief among many that work remained, particularly at the federal level, seeking the adoption of gay marriage. "You can't help but feel like this is somewhat bittersweet," said Naomi Goldberg, 28, of Humboldt Park, who attended the ceremony at the Chicago Cultural Center with her partner of three and a half years. Though pleased with the progress, she said "being able to say that you're married is different than being able to say that you're civil union-ed."Yet celebration...
Obama Gives Obamacare Waivers to 28 Unions, His BIG Donors
2011-02-01 16:58:00 -By Warner Todd Huston More on the waivers for Obamacare. A look at the president's waiver list reveals he's given waivers to 28 food workers union locals so that they can get out from under the oppressive, budget busting requirements in his take over of our nation's medical system. Curiously enough, the PAC for those unions gave Obama $673,309 to his 2008 election campaign. Quid pro quo? Is there any doubt? Just a coincidence, right? The list shows that Obama administration issued one-year waivers to 28 chapters of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW). These waivers exempt the union insurance plans from being forced to obey rules that prevent the plans from limiting what they will pay for...
It's a law: Quinn puts final stamp on civil unions measure
2011-02-01 06:05:00 Gov. Quinn holds the bill legalizing civil unions for gay and lesbian couples on Monday at the Chicago Cultural Center. (Lenny Gilmore/RedEye) By Georgia Garvey RedEye As Gov. Quinn signed into law a measure legalizing civil unions for gay couples on Monday, the jubilation from the crowd of cheering men and women was tempered by a belief among many that work remained, particularly at the federal level, seeking the adoption of gay marriage....
Same-Sex Unions to be Legal in Illinois: What Does it mean to the LGBT com
2011-01-31 17:36:00 Governor Quinn is expected to sign the House Bill 2234 today that will acknowledge same-sex civil unions in the State of Illinois. The ongoing debate of whether gays should be allowed to be married continues, but for now the LGBT residents of Illinois wil have extended rights under the new law. On November 30, 2010, the House passed the bill by a 61-52 margin. The Senate approved the bill on December 1 by a 32-24 margin, sending the bill on to Governor Pat Quinn. The new bill will take effect on June 1, 2011. The same-sex marriage bill, the Equal Marriage Act, SB 2468 that would have amended the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act to declare that...
We can do better than civil unions
2011-01-28 05:04:00 By Lenox MageeRedEye Special ContributorEver since I first heard Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" in fall 2008, I've been scouting out the perfect rings and planning my dream wedding--even if it meant unleashing my inner Groomzilla from time to time....
Unions Realizing They Have Bad Reputation, Launch PR Campaign
2011-01-27 17:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston So, what is the first thing that you do when you find out that everyone hates you? What do you do when you finally come to terms with the fact that you have the worst reputation possible? Do you sit yourself down and reassess your actions to try and pinpoint why everyone thinks you are a jerk? Well, that might be what a serious person or group might do. So, what has the AFL-CIO, the SEIU and other big unions done upon this realization? Why, hired a public relations firm, of course. After all, the unions can't possibly be at fault can they? Why, it can't be the union's fault that everyone hates them, could it?...
Teachers? Unions or Teachers? Unions?
2011-01-17 19:00:00 Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone on The Colbert Report Jan. 4, 2011: Stephen Colbert: Who’s to blame? Is it the teachers’ union or the teachers’ union? Geoffrey Canada: Well, I think you’ve got to really say it’s both … Continue reading →
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In 2011 Public Employees Unions Must Be Targeted for Elimination
2011-01-05 16:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston One of the biggest recurring themes in union reporting these days is music to the ears of any fiscally responsible American. It seems almost weekly that we are seeing stories that recount the ire being directed at public employee unions. Let us hope that this reporting is the first ripples of an anti-union tidal wave that will sweep public employee unions from our governments drowning in union-created red ink. One of the latest is an editorial out of Wisconsin by the Lakeland Times' Gregg Walker. Walker kicked off his piece with exactly the sort of sentiment that we should hope will lead to an end to public employee unions....
Tim Pawlenty: Government Unions vs. Taxpayers
2010-12-14 14:00:00 Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty penned a great op ed in the Wall Street Journal that takes public employee unions to task for their greed and their destructive nature. I've said many times that public employee unions are antithetical to good government and should be outlawed. Pawlenty agrees that they make good governing impossible. Public employees have not always had the luxury of unions. The idea that government employees should be allowed to enter into collective bargaining didn't exist prior to 1958. The fact is, we will never be able to fix our public pension problems until we go back to a pre-1958 stance on public employee unions. They should be eliminated completely. Now I don't usually post whole articles....
Civil Unions for Straight Couples?
2010-12-05 03:01:00 This week, the Illinois House and Senate passed SB 1716 "Illinois Religious Freedom and Protection and Civil Union Act". Governor Quinn has pledged to sign the bill into law in the new year.This long awaited bill gives homosexual couples the opportunity to form a civil union. The thing I wasn't aware of until I read this article by the Chicago Tribune is that it also allows heterosexual couples to form a civil union as well. As a firm supporter of equal rights (because frankly, doesn't every human deserve the exact same rights as the next?) I'd love it if a bill was passed that allowed homosexual couples to marry, but for now this will have to do. Of course anyone who...
Unions Fighting Over 2012 Democrat Convention
2010-11-21 18:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Cleveland, Ohio chapter of the AFL-CIO is mad. After Cleveland was chosen as the host city for the 2012 Democrat Party convention some carped that Cleveland was not sufficiently unionized to qualify as the right place for the Democrats to hold their event. Cleveland's AFL-CIO, however, begs to differ. The AFL-CIO was so incensed at the accusation that they wrote a letter to the DNC. "Cleveland and the Cleveland metropolitan area boast a healthy number of union hotels," the executive secretary of the region's AFL-CIO federation, Harriet Applegate, wrote in a letter to Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine this week. In October the union agitation group UNITE HERE sent a letter to the Democratic...
Unions' Preferred Rating for Teachers: NR
2010-11-13 16:35:00 -By Dan Proft, for the Illinois Policy Institute Amid the contentious debate as to how we improve public education in America, there is one reality to which all parties subscribe: there is no substitute for a quality teacher in the classroom. The scholarship on teacher quality is clear. It is the most important school-related factor in student achievement. Some studies suggest the difference between having a good teacher and having a bad one can exceed one grade-level equivalent in annual achievement growth....
Public employee unions funnel public money to Democrats
2010-10-29 22:20:00 From the Washington Examiner:Who is the largest single political contributor in the 2010 campaign cycle? You can be pardoned if you answer, erroneously, that it's some new conservative group organized by Karl Rove. That's campaign spin by the Obama Democrats, obediently relayed by certain elements of the so-called mainstream mediaThe real answer is AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The union's president, Gerald McEntee, reports proudly that AFSCME will be contributing $87.5 million in this cycle, entirely or almost entirely to Democrats. "We're spending big," he told the Wall Street Journal. "And we're damn happy it's big."And much of that money is sucked out of union dues which must be paid by public employee workers. (Yes,...
Essay Question: Teachers & Unions In 20 Years
2010-10-25 16:59:00 I read somewhere recently that only seven percent of the US workforce remain unionized, though of course in education that number is much higher. For better or for worse, the overall trend is clear -- more and more industries are either shutting down (manufacturing) or moving overseas, or becoming much less union-dominated than they were. Pensions and employer-paid healthcare plans are going the way of the dodo bird, or at least they have in other sectors. But maybe education is different? Put your own opinions aside for a moment -- and your own personal benefit -- and ponder the following: Do you think that teaching will be as unionized as it currently is in 20 years, or more like 50-50,...
The Law: Bought And Paid For By Unions
2010-10-07 17:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Chicago Public School system is out of money. Like every business in the real world one solution was to layoff workers, in this case some 700 teachers. In the real world that is the way the cookie crumbles. Such employees would put themselves on the market and look for new jobs. Life moves on. But in the world of public employees unions, such employees run to the judges they've bought and the law they wrote themselves and had passed by politicians bought and paid for. So taxpayers are forced to give them concessions, paybacks, and special favors. It all amounts to more proof of union graft and corruption at its most common. This has happened...
Chrysler Fires Auto Plant Workers Seen in Fox 2 Video
2010-09-30 15:02:00 If you’ve been following the story of the Chrysler workers at the Jefferson North assembly plant who methodically spent their lunch hours drinking and taking drugs, then you know that Chrysler wasn’t going to tolerate this and that action would be taken. An investigative reporter from the local FOX News station caught them in the ...
Daily Show Humiliates Unions that Hire Non-Union Picketers
2010-09-26 21:35:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) is attacking Walmart (and has been for years) and how are they doing it? By picketing, of course. Yes, they send their members down to Walmart to protest the evil, evil Walmart that refuses to hire union folks and...what? Wait. The union doesn't send their members to protest? The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cWorking Stiffedwww.thedailyshow.comDail-y Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party Ah, the Daily Show finally realized that this has been going on for a long time. Like every left-wing show they only attack their own friends when it is a last resort. But, hey, at least Jon Stewart FINALLY got around to noticing...
Unions Retreat on Criticism of Dems That Didn't Support Obamacare
2010-09-22 16:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Earlier in this election cycle unions were pumped up with an assumed sense of supreme power, they had spent millions to elect their guy to the White House and they were ready to flex their muscles. Unions began to direct that assumed power against Democrats that were reticent to support Obama's takeover of our healthcare system. In some early primaries unions spoke out against these so-called Blue-dog Democrats and said they would not support them but at the other end of this primary season unions are singing a different tune. With the obvious downturn in support that Democrats have seen in these primaries and in the polls of American voters unions have gotten the hint (like...
Unions Struggling to Get Members to Rally Behind Dems
2010-09-18 16:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston When voters are not enthused even unions find it harder to get their supporters to rally to an election and this is one of the worst years for Democrats on record. Unions are finding their efforts hard slogging just like the rest of the Democrat Party is. It's so bad even The New York Times is reporting the Union's woes. As we've repeatedly talked about here, The Times reports that Big Labor is pumping millions into the Democrat's pockets in hopes of fighting off the conservative Tea Party enthusiasm out there this election year. Apparently, though, unions are finding that, like other Democrat constituencies, their members are not "feeling particularly enthusiastic about the party."...
Unions Prevent Kids from Learning in L.A.
2010-09-04 19:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The L.A. Times has been publishing a great series about how the city's schools have been dropping the ball on education. Specifically, the Times points out that the L.A. schools district has had at its disposal stats that could have helped it to engineer a better education policy for its students but has ignored these stats. Why have they ignored these stats? Fear of unions. The Times has a database of the effectiveness of nearly 6,000 L.A. area teachers. These findings, the Times informs us, were based on a method called "value-added analysis. It is a method that is beginning to be used to rank teachers and help administrators design a more effective education for kids...
Wrestling with teacher unions
2010-08-30 02:43:00 Unions are reasonably good at protecting workers whose jobs involve the daily risk of having molten steel dropped on them or getting arm chewed off in a machine. However, the value of a union for government workers, especially professionals like teachers, is a little harder to define. This year's strike-season seems to have passed without any major labor disruptions impacting DuPage school districts, but that outcome can never be taken for granted. The presence of collective bargaining agreements add an administrative burden that limit each school's options in adapting to student needs. Districts do not have any room to decide whether to enter into a contract. Illinois law requires them to negotiate a union contract with their teachers. But do...
AFL-CIO Joins Communists, La Raza, ACLU, Other Unions in Voter Registration
2010-08-27 20:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Looks like the AFL-CIO is no longer even trying to hide the fact that it no longer sports a traditionally American political outlook. The labor union has announced that it is joining a voter registration drive called One Nation Working Together. This coalition is filled with some of the most extremely leftist groups in America today including the ACLU, Enviro extremists, La Raza, Code Pink, various anti-war groups, and the Communist Party USA. This new move by the AFL-CIO finds hearty support from the People's World newspaper, a publication dedicated to communism and the "direct descendent" of the communist Daily Worker newspaper....
Forego Pay Raises or Lay Off Teachers: Bill Brady to Teachers Unions
2010-08-22 02:04:00 In this revealing interview, Republic nominee for Governor, Bill Brady says he will not raise state taxes, nor will he ask local communities to raise property taxes for education. If that happens, teachers and local board will be faced with a tough decision: either forego pay raises or lay off teachers. ...
Unions Destroy Calif. Pension Reform Bill
2010-08-21 20:01:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Like most bills, the legislation meant to reform California's failing public pension system started out stronger than it ended up. But unlike most bills the final bill has been so gutted, so defanged, that it leaves the pension system in a worse mess than it was when the bill was introduced. Not surprisingly unions are the culprits. One of the things that the bill was supposed to stop was the practice of "pension spiking." This is the practice of government workers getting a sudden raise in position, salary and benefits just as they are about to retire. This sudden raise, often instituted only weeks or months before retirement, allows the employee to retire at a higher...
How Teachers Unions Abuse Non-Union Teacher Paychecks
2010-08-20 19:00:00 From the Independent Teachers for Colorado blog... Check out this new Independent Teachers video about what happens when a non-union school employee who is forced to opt out of paying union fees every year misses the deadline because of family medical emergencies: Due to family medical hardships, non-union Pueblo school employee Becky Robertson missed an annual deadline to opt out of union fee paycheck deductions. The union rejected her appeal. Though she had chosen not to be a union member, Becky ended up paying the union hundreds of dollars that could have been used for medical bills and other expenses. Why do Colorado laws allow this type of abuse to continue?...
Tribune editorial, teachers unions and Civic Committee head weigh in on...D
2010-08-19 04:08:00 Dennis ByrneYes, I too was surprised. It stems from a Tribune column in which I reported a legal opinion that the Illinois public employee pension benefits might not be as secure as commonly thought. The opinion, written by the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin, argues that the state constitution does not guarantee that the state must pay for all the benefits if the pension funds go bust.That brought an overwrought response from the union, calling me, Eden Martin (president of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago) and the Tribune "tools of terror." Links are provided to the entire discussion below:Here is the Tribune editorial: Tribune, 'Tool of Terror.'Here is the teachers union op-ed column: Teachers: Don't blame...
"Working People" is a code word for unions
2010-08-09 14:04:00 When you hear a progressive use the term "working people"- what they really mean is unions. This law is for working people.You have to do this for working people rights.Raise taxes for the working people.All of the above, when a progressive says it, means that they want goodies for unions.Here is an example of this.Check out this pro-union article titled:Immigration law hurts working peopleThe article claims that the new immigration law hurts "working people". What it really means is that the immigration law hurts unionized people....
Even The Left Getting Tired of Teachers Unions?
2010-08-04 18:59:00 -By Warner Todd Huston An interesting article appeared in the Chicago Tribune lamenting the fact that teachers unions are standing in the way of good education for our kids by constantly and in knee-jerk fashion opposing school reform efforts all across the country. Penned by the Tribune's Leonard Pitts, no arch righty he, the piece scolds teachers unions and postulates that we may be at the edge of a new day in education where the whining of backwards and uncaring teachers unions may be properly ignored as school districts, backed by parents and voters, launch into a new wave of reforms that will finally have a positive affect on America's schools that have been failing for decades....
Unions Violating Disclosure Rules
2010-07-10 15:00:00 When Barack Obama took office, one of the early things he did was install Hilda Solis, a long-time union operative, as head of the Department of Labor. And one of the first things she did was to ease the reporting requirements on unions, softening the violation of disclosure rules. In August of 2009 Labor Sec. Solis immediately let it be known that her department would no longer initiate "enforcement actions against union officers and union employees based solely on the failure to file" the LM2 disclosure forms. Since that time two major unions have been caught filing inaccurate lobbying reports and disclosure statements....
Another Sign of Unions Losing Allies
2010-07-09 18:09:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Again the New York Times reports on the confusion, anger, and loss of influence being experienced by shocked unions, this time teachers unions. Like the psychotic that lashes out at everyone around them when things are going wrong, at a New Orleans teachers union convention there is a lot of harsh words for former friends in the Obama administration the Times reports. Listen to this falderal from Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, as he spoke to the assembled, "This is not the change I hoped for... Today our members face the most anti-educator, anti-union, anti-student environment I have ever experienced." What overheated nonsense. The Obama administration is the most union friendly administration...
Even the NYT Noticing that Unions Losing Friends and Allies
2010-07-06 18:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston You know its bad for unions when even the New York Times publishes a story reporting that Big Labor is losing friends and allies in formerly well controlled political spheres. But such is the times in which we live where fiscal disaster is highlighting the illicitness that is unions in general, but public employees unions in particular. (You know our mantra here: Unions are antithetical to good government) For the Times Steven Greenhouse writes that Big Labor is finding new critics among "old allies in elected office." Greenhouse reports the words of former union member turned New Jersey State Senator Stephen M. Sweeney who has turned against his former compatriots in Big Labor and its unnecessarily...
Worst Teachers Rewarded by Unions, New Teachers Abandoned
2010-06-29 16:05:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Last week the Chicago Tribune published an editorial detailing the biggest reason why unions as they have operated in the U.S. for decades are an illegitimate venture. The Trib published a plea to new Chicago teachers union chief Karen Lewis not to protect the bad teachers under her charge and to help the younger teachers that haven't yet proved to be bad for kids by allowing the bad ones to be laid off without complaint. The Trib's editorial called the practice of keeping bad teachers "dancing lemons," revealing the sad practice of shuffling bad teachers around the system instead of firing merely because they may have tenure on the job. While new teachers are automatically laid...
The bigger public unions get, the worse the worse the economy
2010-06-29 02:46:00 The entire purpose of a public sector union is to make the union more money and increase their union base. This is done by increasing membership, collecting more union dues, bargain for better benefits, and collecting more power. So the bigger and more well payed their members become, the better. The public unions grow by having government grow - all at tax payer expense.Public Union influence on politicians has been a major factor on the growth of government over the year.All of this growth of government would be acceptable if a bigger government translated to a better economy. However according to Star Parker in a TownHall article, the opposite is true: "Not only is there no such evidence, but the... |
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