July 2011 Archive

Unions - We Earn Our Respect
Ex-Union Member Fights $200,000 Union Fine For Working Non-Union
Unions have rules. Union members who break those rules can be placed on trial by their union and, if found guilty, can be expelled or suspended from the union. They ...
CAIT - Bought & Paid For
What a Shocker! Unions Are Behind Scaring Californians From Signing Ballot Petitions
[Editor's note: This is an update to Friday's post.] On Friday, attention was drawn to a radio ad and new website that popped up by a group calling itself "Californians Against ...
Californians Against Identity Theft
Who Is Behind Scaring Californians Away From Signing Petitions For Ballot Initiatives?
Let's start with this screenshot of a new website launched by a yet-unidentified group that is calling itself "Californians Against Identity Theft." Apparently, the sole purpose of this group is ...
afscme-members
AFSCME Thugs Picket Disabled Employees’ Workplace
The video speaks for itself... via the MacIver Institute
AF$CME We Make America Work For Us
AFSCME Fails to Win Over Public-Sector Employees in Florida
Last Thursday, the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees suffered a crushing 116-32 defeat in a bid to unionize the City of Winter Park, Florida's operational services employees. According ...
H&M - Sor
Six H&M New York Clothing Stores Unionized Through Voluntary Recognition
Workers at Six H&M New York Clothing Stores Join a Union Holly Rosenkrantz | Bloomberg Jul 28, 2011 Workers at six New York City-area H&M stores, owned by a Sweden-based clothing retailer, won ...
Money - Public Domain Photos
The United Food & Commercial Workers’ $75,000 Club: Where members’ dues money goes…
While grocery workers in Southern California prepare to walk out on strike and grocery workers in the Mid-Atlantic states get laid off... While the UFCW spends millions of their members' money ...
CWA Group Walking - AFLCIO
CWA Votes to Strike Verizon
Verizon Workers Vote to Support Strike STEVEN GREENHOUSE July 28, 2011 The main union representing Verizon’s workers announced on Thursday that its 35,000 members at Verizon had voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike ...
Ethics
Obama Labor Department Official Resigns After Ethics Investigation
There are two surprises about this report. First, it does not appear that there will be anything done other than allowing this Obama operative to resign for pressuring subordinates to give government ...
SEIU Union Redefined
SEIU Statement on RICO Suit: It’s Not Us, It’s Them!
ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United States Federal Judge Claude M. Hilton ruled today that a civil lawsuit brought by Sodexo against the Service Employees International Union can ...

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