July 2010 Archive

Pelosi to Aspiring Musicians: Quit Your Job, Taxpayers Will Cover Your Health Care
From CNSNews: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that thanks to the new health-care reform law, musicians and other creative types could quit their jobs and focus on developing their ...
UAW bookkeeper admits embezzling $200,000
A former bookkeeper for United Auto Workers Local 383 in Benton Township has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to embezzling $200,397 from the union. U.S. Attorney Donald Davis said that ...
NLRB Decision Supports Quincy Medical Center in Negotiations with Nurses
The National Labor Relations Board has determined that Quincy Medical Center "bargained in good faith" in its recent negotiations with the Massachusetts Nursing Association and management's decision to declare ...
Outsiders Running the Teamsters? A Shake-Up at the Top of the Teamsters’ Ticket Stirs Questions
Another shake-up in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as James Hoffa's running mate chooses to step aside.  This time, however, a letter from the Teamsters' number two man leaves ...
Maxine Waters chooses ethics trial
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has chosen to go through an ethics trial, like the one lined up for New York Rep. Charles Rangel, rather than accepting charges made by an ethics ...
Three Employees of Las Vegas Laborers Local Indicted
From the National Legal & Policy Center's Union Corruption Update: On April 28, Aundrea Valerio, Stacy Johnson and Aurora Rios, former office employees of Laborers International Union of North America Local ...
NLRB Sets Date for Biggest Union Election in 70 Years
The war between the SEIU and the NUHW may come down to this... The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled a government-protected mail ballot election beginning Sept. 13 for nearly 44,000 Kaiser ...
SEIU Boss Pushes Progressives to Exploit Latinos for Radical Agenda
From the folks over at Townhall.com: SEIU vice president and former Obama Latino Advisory Council member Eliseo Medina, speaking to the Netroots Nation liberal bloggers conference last weekend, makes blatantly false claims ...
SEIU Attacking Fellow Union for Concessions
The Engineers and Architects Association, a 48,000 member public employees union in L.A., has come under attack from the politically active Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for having the ...
Pelosi’s Slip of the Tongue on Card-Check
Yeah, the Speaker of the House is still committed destroying jobs by backing pro-union legislation. [Which reminds us: When will Nancy hire union workers at her non-union vineyard and resort hotel?] The ...

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