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Mega Exams, Cross-Dressing "Orchid" Children, Slimy Unions, Meep!
2009-11-13 22:43:00
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Sun-Times, unions agree
2009-10-07 22:23:00
In an agreement that could save the Chicago Sun-Times, the paper and the union that represnt editorial employees have reached a tentative deal--yet to be approved by the union membership--that could pave the way for the company's sale and, it is hope, its salvation..Crain's Chicago Business reported the deal....
Civil Unions
2009-05-27 15:34:00
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Steele: short-sighted on same-sex civil unions
2009-02-28 22:51:00
Sometimes the most amusing thing about reading the comments is noting how readily so many of our critics ignore the points we make (frequently misrepresenting them if they address them at all) to wonder why we don’t blog on this or that subject. It’s as if we have all the time in the world and unlimited ...
Now You?re a Racist if you Don?t Support Unions?
2009-02-12 14:57:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Union shill Ron Gettelfinger wants you to know that if you don’t support unions you are a racist. That’s right. If you don’t want the undemocratic card check bill to pass Congress you are exactly like the negro hanging, civil rights denying, Jim Crow enforcers of the 1950s. In one of the most ...
Unions are Inherently UnAmerican ? Teachers Union Rips Off Members
2009-02-11 14:54:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Imagine a fast food place that makes you buy a cheeseburger when you want a chicken sandwich. Oh, they don’t mind if you buy the chicken sandwich, too, mind you, but you are forced to purchase a cheeseburger every time you walk through the doors whether you want it or not. Seems ...
Obama Order Allows Unions to Drive Up Cost of Gov?t Contracts
2009-02-08 14:45:00
-By Warner Todd Huston The newest in his series Executive Orders that are little else but sops to unions was uncorked in Washington on Friday, February 6. This one ordered the use of union labor for large-scale federal construction projects, eliminating 84 percent of the American contractors that are not unionized. Not only would this bill force ...
Unions? Incestuous Relationship to Government Means BAD Government
2009-02-08 14:45:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Lisa Jones of the web news site The Examiner has a great piece that exemplifies what I have been saying for a long time: unions are antithetical to good government. Jones details a story of the incestuous relationship between anti-democratic union thugs and the city government in Denver, Colorado. Her sad tale of ...
Unions Gain Heavy Among Government Workers
2009-02-01 14:23:00
-By Warner Todd Huston As we reported a few days ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported its newest stats on union membership for 2008. These stats show that union membership has increased for the second straight year. But where it has increased is of key importance. The report shows a gain of 428,000 members, the largest ...
What do Obama and Unions Have in Common? Communists!
2009-01-31 14:21:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Michael Richardson of the on-line news group the Examiner wrote recently about some revealing quotes about the modern American Communist Party by a Richard Winger of Ballot Access News. Speaking about how the Communist Party in the US has for the most part ceased trying to run candidates for office, Winger points out ...
Paul Cox wrote a new blog post: Civil Unions/Domestic Partnerships are the
2009-01-28 19:49:00
Paul Cox wrote a new blog post: Civil Unions/Domestic Partnerships are the same as Marriage....right? First of all, What is Marriage? When people marry, they tend to do so for reasons of love and commitment. But marriage is also a legal status, which comes with rights and responsibilities. Marriage establishes a legal kinship between you and your spouse. It is a relationship that is recognized across cultures, countries and religions. What ...
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Unions Decide THEY Should Say Who Gets Taxed
2009-01-14 19:47:00
-By Warner Todd Huston In the military it’s called “mission creep.” That is when you start out doing one thing and end up doing something that has nothing at all to do with what your main function is supposed to be.
Unions Ready to Pounce on 111th Congress
2009-01-11 13:40:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Unions gave many millions of dollars to elect Democrats and Barack Obama last November. Now they want payback. And, at least according to The New York Times, it is to begin with a bang. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D,CA) is planning an early push of two pay “discrimination” bills ASAP. Last year, ...
2008 Failed Banks and Credit Unions
2009-01-02 20:05:00
Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary 2008 Failed Banks and Credit Unions Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary 2008 Failed Banks and Credit Unions 2008 shaped to be a very bad year, if not the worst ever, for financial institutions, big or small alike. Big companies such as Citigroup, American International Group, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac needed billions of dollars from Uncle Sam to stay afloat, ...
Obama?s First Gift to Unions
2008-12-26 13:10:00
- By Warner Todd Huston Barack Obama’s pick for Secretary of Labor is his first gift to labor unions. Hilda Solis is quite a union extremist and has already promised to push the misleadingly named employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) once she takes over her new role in the Obama administration. A recent Wall Street Journal report ...
New Strategy Needed on Same-Sex Unions/Marriage
2008-12-19 23:16:00
When it comes to gay issues, I don’t always agree with my friend David Benkof.W hile sometimes I think his ideas are off-the-wall, more often than not, even when I disagree with him, I think he raises an important point which, all too frequently, others have ignored. In his latest Op-ed, he puts forward ...
Unions to Organize for Jobs That Don?t Yet Exist?
2008-12-18 18:56:00
-By Warner Todd Huston A recent AP piece lauded the fact that the envirosocialist movement and American labor unions are at long last beginning to walk hand in hand. At the “climate talks” in Poland, several American union groups sent representatives to announce common cause on going green. The AP report noted that the Sierra Club, a ...
Unions Threatened Riots if No Bailout
2008-12-17 10:08:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Last week, Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers union, threatened to foster riots if the $900 billion bailout didn’t get through Congress. ?If we have Republicans who oppose us, we are going to take to the streets, we are going to occupy places. We are not going to allow any more ...
Auto Unions Reason for Senate Denial of Bailout
2008-12-15 16:05:00
-By Warner Todd Huston For helping put American auto makers in the mess it is currently in, one might say that the unions deserve this thumbs down vote. Congressional Republicans blocked the $14 billion auto bailout on Thursday and one of the main reasons was because of undue union excess of a sort that sees US ...
Corrupt Unions/ Corrupt Governor ? Payback!
2008-12-15 10:04:00
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Nightly Ramble:COLD!;Oil;Unions; Buyer’s Remorse, More
2008-12-08 22:01:00
Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ’sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble. A cold, cold Monday, today. Buffalo had 14 degrees, this morning. Syracuse had a low of 5. My truck struggled to life this morning, and then after advising me it was 16 outside… (Making my driveway the garden spot in the state).. that there might be ice possible. Always helpful information, that truck. I can’t complain. Years ago, I had one that your name would have to be Petty or something to get it started on a cold morning. Heck, Billy, I called the oil price crumble long before August… both here and at Q&O.  Of course none of the drooling morons who called me out on that… including Erb,  never showed up to point out I was right, either… not that I expected it.  It’d be nice if someone reminded them, though. At the moment, I’ll say I didn’t expect the price to drop quite as low as it has. I figured we&...
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Union Group Uses Worker Death to Advertise for Unions
2008-12-05 19:38:00
-By Warner Todd Huston I guess it doesn’t get more cynical than this, but a union advocacy group that has for years been needling Wal-Mart to unionize has used the tragic death of a Wal-Mart worker on Black Friday as a reason to push their union ideas. Even though that worker’s trampling death has nothing whatever ...
Unions Killing Detroit
2008-11-17 13:46:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Dan Ikenson of the CATO Institute has another great posting on the “cancer” that is unions in the U.S. auto making industry. A Cancer on the Big Three If you?ve followed developments in the auto industry at any time during the past couple couple decades, you?ve probably heard of GM?s ?Jobs Bank.? This nausea-inducing ...
Unions WILL Cost Us Jobs
2008-11-17 13:46:00
Oppose the employee free choice act (EFCA). Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, Unions, Union CorruptionBookmark this story to your favorite service:
Auto Bailout Becoming a Sop to Unions?
2008-11-15 13:41:00
-By Warner Todd Huston With the precedent set of a bailout from Washington, the automakers are crawling and sticking their hands out for a new bailout for them. But, will a bailout for the Auto Industry actually go to the Industry or will it be a sop to unions? Unfortunately, it looks like an auto industry ...
Airline Unions Want Obama?s Help Bankrupting Airlines
2008-11-11 19:33:00
-By Warner Todd Huston During the campaign it came to light that Barack Obama had claimed that he wanted to bankrupt America’s coal industry and make all our electrical rates skyrocket. Well, now that he is president elect Obama, airline unions are hoping that he’ll also come to their aid and help bankrupt the airlines. ...
Unions Prepared for BIG Payday With New Prez
2008-11-10 13:30:00
-By Warner Todd Huston As we’ve been warning here on the blog, unions are ready for a big payoff for having pumped hundreds of millions of their members’ dues money into Barack Obama’s campaign and The New York Times published a story that presents it all as a wonderful thing, naturally. And, in keeping with the Times’ ...
Labor Unions: A Brood of Vipers
2008-11-04 13:13:00
-By Thomas E. Brewton Labor unions make us poorer and they prolong recessions. Senator Obama’s short-sighted support for wealth-redistribution taxation and for socialist labor unions is nothing new for Democrat/Socialist politicians. Both in England and in the United States, labor unions led the political assault to overwhelm the individualistic traditions that made those nations great and to impose ...
Denver Chamber of Commerce Sells Its Soul to the Unions
2008-10-30 18:58:00
-By Warner Todd Huston As we’ve discussed before, Colorado has several Amendments on its ballot this election season. One of them is Amendment 54. (See full text in PDF format here) Basically, Amendment 54 is a corruption fighter. It prohibits any company that holds a no-bid government contract from donating to political campaigns. This law would ...
New Book: Mobsters, Unions, and Feds - The Mafia and the American Labor Mov
2008-10-21 19:36:00
-By Warner Todd Huston James Jacobs has released his latest in a series of exposes on Organized Crime in the USA. This time in “Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement,” he focuses on how the Mob has infiltrated and distorted the labor movement in the U.S. to its own illegal, violent ...
Detroit Auto Makers Unions to Spend $3 Mil on Obama Campaign
2008-10-10 18:41:00
-By Warner Todd Huston According to Reuters, the United Auto Workers (UAW) has announced that they are spending $3 million on TV, radio and Web ads to promote the election of Barack Obama this month. The ads, which feature UAW members talking about lost health care benefits and the loss of manufacturing jobs, will run on television, ...
Colorado Amendments 47,49,50 Attacked by Unions
2008-09-28 17:29:00
-By Warner Todd Huston There has been a pretty vicious fight in Colorado over several Amendments that will appear on the ballots aimed at putting a collar on rampant union violations of worker’s rights this year. The unions have imported all sorts of outside groups and money to defeat these worker freedom Amendments. Here is a ...
Unions Forcing NJ Newspaper to Fold
2008-09-25 17:21:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Anyone following the print media will know that newspapers are falling on hard times everywhere in the country. The Internet has damaged newspaper’s once dominant position as the source for daily local and national news. In this day when papers are folding everywhere and many more are firing people right and left ...
Getting Unions OUT of the Classroom
2008-09-22 11:13:00
How money marked for education in Texas is diverted by teachers unions courtesy of www.empowertexans.com. Believe me, it isn’t much different anywhere else! Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, Union Corruption, UnionsBookmark this story to your favorite service:
Has it Come to This? Unions Striking Against Unions?
2008-09-19 23:07:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Unions in America have finally arrived at farce. Yes, they have become a parody of themselves because now we have an example of a union being formed so that it can strike against… its own union. Confused? Don’t blame you. From the Associated Press we get this tale of high comedy, this ...
Taxes, Unions, and Regulations Matter
2008-09-19 23:07:00
-By Thomas E. Brewton To picture what Senator Obama’s economic policies hold in store for the United States look at the destructive impact of those policies in individual states. The New England States and New York once were the industrial heartland of the United States. After the Civil War, industrial growth moved westward into Ohio, Michigan, ...
Unions Try to Buy Republican Support
2008-09-13 10:52:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Interestingly, several unions have this convention season tried to cross the aisle from their usual Democrat side over to Republicans looking to garner support from the Red States. The National Journal has an interesting little account of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) and the National Education Association (NEA) and a few ...
Obama?s Dangerous Sop to Unions
2008-08-16 09:44:00
-By Warner Todd Huston Donald Lambro had a great piece warning about the promises that Barack Obama has quietly made to the nation’s unions on August 8. Of course, we have talked about it many times here on the blog, but the union’s “card check” plan in their so-called “Employee Free Choice Act” is a bad, ...
The Necessity and Benefits of Unions in Capitalism
2008-07-27 07:31:00
Responding to my Unions and Wage - Productivity Increases post, James Schipper notes:You are quite right in arguing that no capitalist will increase wages as long as he can hire more workers at the going wage. That's why it's important to restrict the supply of labor within a country by immigration controls and by convincing workers to limit their offspring.One 19th French economist was once asked what advice he had for the proletariat, and he answered: "Faites moins d'enfants" = make fewer babies. Not bad advice. As long as the proletarians keep increasing their numbers, their chances of prospering are so much smaller.With open borders, the very large number of unskilled workers in the Third World are a huge reserve army of the unemployed.And then some people still wonder why so many capitalists like immigration.I quite agree with you that unions can be very beneficial for their members. However, it is very doubtful that unions can do much for the wage-earning class as a whole.S...
Unions and Wage - Productivity Increases
2008-07-26 06:57:00
James Schipper's comments in the comments section suggest that productivity naturally leads to increased wages in capitalism due to the laws of capital and labor. I argue that productivity increases during conditions of labor surplus normal in most capitalist states probably come mostly due to the militant actions of Organized Labor.James does aver that the replacement of American workers with illegal alien labor did have an effect on the destruction of wages in the construction industry. I argue that there were two stages to the process.First they broke the unions, then they hired the illegals. Those were the two stages. The exact same thing occurred in many manufacturing plants, especially meat processing. Slaughterhouses, poultry-processing and seafood processing plants all used to be good union jobs with high wages as recently as the 1980's.First they took out the unions, then they brought in illegals or other immigrants to the work. Many other fields besides construction have...
Unions Underfunding Their Own Members? Pensions, Study Says
2008-07-15 18:47:00
-By Warner Todd Huston A few days ago I posted a story on a recent article in the New York Sun by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow at The Hudson Institute, that focused on how the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) had not fully funded the pension plan of their rank and file members while they had ...
How Unions Demonize Opponents
2008-07-11 18:42:00
-By Warner Todd Huston There is an interesting little report about a city Supervisor in Amherst, New York and how the city employee unions have demonized him since being elected as a reformer 2 years ago. It is an object lesson in how unions will demonize instead of work with anyone. When Mohan took office 2 years ...
Unions Says Public Has No Right to Know About State Payments to Unions
2008-07-01 12:36:00
-By Warner Todd Huston What happened when the Evergreen Freedom Foundation decided to request the public government records of the negotiations between unions and government in Washington State? All hell broke loose, that’s what. The bloated public employee unions banded together to stop the public from finding out what went on between the government and the ...
Teachers Unions Succeed in Ending Scholarships
2008-06-22 07:28:00
-By Warner Todd Huston One would assume that everyone wants to see that our kids get the best education possible. I mean, who could possibly be against kids getting the best opportunities? Well, apparently the one entity that you’d expect to really care about kids is the one standing in the way of their education: teachers. ...
CT ?Bad Boy Clause? Passes, Unions Oppose Punishing Criminal Public Employe
2008-06-21 07:28:00
-By Warner Todd Huston In an historic decision that I hope is duplicated in other states, Connecticut has finally passed the “bad boy clause,” a law that would find public employees (like elected politicians and state workers) who are convicted of criminal behavior having their pensions denied them as a result of that criminal behavior. Of course, ...
Unite calls on Gordon Brown to turn left.
2008-06-02 14:37:00
Press release: Joint leader of unite calls on Labour to change direction2 Jun 2008In the wake of the Crewe catastrophe, Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of Unite, will warn that: "It is not the differences between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair that are the problem, it is the similarities."Speaking at the union's industrial conferences in Brighton this week, Mr Simpson will call for 'New Labour' to be consigned to the history books, as the union opens up a new front to change the policies of the Labour government to show the electorate that only Labour can deal with inequality, housing shortages, rising fuel costs and the health service.A windfall tax on the billion pound profits of oil companies would redefine Gordon Brown's premiership and win back votes for Labour.Mr Simpson will tell delegates: "For years the labour movement held its breath expecting, hoping, for change after the departure of Tony Blair. While we went blue from the lack of oxygen, the country has gone blu...
Illegals, Unions, TINA and National Sovereignty
2008-05-30 11:19:00
Excellent commenter Uncle Milton notes presciently about illegal immigration. Comments at the end:Uncle Milton: Unions didn't gain any real power in this country until the immigration doors were slammed shut in the 1920s. In the modern era (the last three decades) you don't have to look very far to see how cheap Latino labor has suppressed the wages of meat packers, janitors, construction workers, etc.When critiquing illegal immigration, I find it much more productive (and appealing or at least tolerated) by a wider audience when you bring up what it has done to wages and how employers have profited.Now with the globalization of computer technology many things can be done overseas: accounting, programming, tech support, architecture. In theory, this is done for lower costs, but I know multiple cases were companies brought labor back to the US.We hear all the time about how the US isn't producing enough engineers. What you don't hear as much is that the average engineer only st...
New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Other States
2008-05-29 13:02:00
Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions, like California and Canada. read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bahamas Trade Unions Stand Divided
2008-05-24 01:25:00
Unions Still Divided as Labour Day Approaches: By TOSHEENA ROBINSON-BLAIR - Nassau, Bahamas: While nixing the idea that the country?s two umbrella unions would finally unite to stage one major Labour Day march, leaders affiliated with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) unveiled plans on Thursday for their annual Labour Day parade, which is expected to be held under the theme, "The struggle for unity continues. Then, now, forever." As Labour Day approaches, the country?s largest trade union, the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union, continues to be embroiled in bitter infighting, and differences between the TUC and the National Congress of Trade Unions will apparently prevent them from joining forces on June 6 as originally planned. According to TUC President Obie Ferguson, the lack of recognition for some trade unions in the country, the need for vacation and notice pay in the event a company goes bankrupt or relocates, and the enforcement of court judgments in worker...
Employers and unions want migrants Workers Registration Scheme scrapped
2008-05-21 13:06:00
The Workers Registration Scheme (WRS) should be scrapped, according to an alliance of employers, unions and migrant groups.
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