August 2010 Archive

The SEIU Wants Its Members to Be Politically Active: Unless they’re conservative, that is.
The Service Employees International Union has become infamous as the socialist progressive union that has backed the notoriously corrupt organization ACORN, taken Alinsky-style radicalism and transformed it into a science, ...
IBEW Boss Gets One Year for Embezzlement
INLAND: Ex-union official gets 1 year in federal prison PE News | Daily News Digest August 30, 2010 A 70-year-old former union official was sentenced today to a year in federal prison and ...
Union-controlled NLRB rules in favor of SEIU & NNU over employee complaint
Pact between KC hospital, unions can stand, labor board says RANDOLPH HEASTER | The Kansas City Star August 30, 2010 A federal agency has dismissed complaints against the owner of Research Medical Center ...
After 64 years, embattled UNITE-HERE ends representation of Murray’s Restaurant workers
Union backs out of Murray's fight, ends ties to employees JACKIE CROSBY | Star Tribune August 30, 2010 The union that represented employees at Murray's Restaurant in downtown Minneapolis for decades has kissed ...
Gallup Poll: As Bleak As It’s Ever Been for Dems
Tidal wave? 10-point poll edge for GOP JONATHAN ALLEN & RICHARD E. COHEN | POLITICO 8/30/10 Democrats thought things couldn't get much worse on the electoral front — and then they went home ...
Obama’s Education secretary pushed employees to go to Sharpton rally
Education secretary urged his employees to go to Sharpton's rally Lisa Gartner | Washington Examiner August 30, 2010 President Obama's top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. ...
The SEIU at Al Sharpton’s March: And they say a picture’s worth a thousand words
Do you see what's wrong in this picture? And this is the union that gave America nationalized health care, is working on nationalizing retirements, and wants to do away with secret-ballot ...
The UFCW’s Hard Case: Union demands arbitration for man who was fired after self-inflicted penile injections
Running a website covering labor issues can be...well...entertaining, to say the least. Because this post may not be entirely workplace safe, instead of giving you the long and short of it, ...
Voting With Your Wallet: Are you helping to fund the demise of America?
The question in the title of this post is more rhetorical because, in answer to the question, we are all (to varying degrees) helping to fund the demise of America ...
Killing the Goose: Union Bosses & Their Political Puppets in Washington Put The Lame In Lame Duck
Union Bosses & Their Supporters On Capitol Hill Put The Lame In Lame Duck Katie Gage | Townhall Aug. 28, 2010 As if Big Labor hasn’t already squeezed enough out of Congress with ...

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