Union dues reform bill passes Florida House.
The bill in question is HB 1021, and it is designed to get government out of union’s business by: banning automatic dues collection for public sector unions; and requiring union leadership to get...
View ArticleJudge Maryann Sumi (D*) ‘fixes’ anti-reform restraining order. Again.
How many bites at the apple does this judge get, anyway? Let’s recap what happened in Wisconsin (that link leads to a whole slew of links that track this epic foul-up by the Democratic party in...
View ArticleTeamsters steamroller United Food & Commercial Workers.
Union solidarity is a myth. David Freddoso has the details: essentially, the Teamsters and the UFCW are at cross-purposes when it comes to the Giant supermarket chain here in DC. The Teamsters are...
View Article#rsrh WI Dems want it both ways on union reform bill.
So, I’m confused. You see, I know that the Wisconsin Supreme Court did a full-force smackdown of Judge MaryAnn Sumi’s incorrect and egregious attempt to subvert the will of the Wisconsin legislature...
View ArticleRS Interview: Gov. John Kasich (R, OH).
As it happens, this Wall Street Journal article discussing Ohio’s (among other states’) credit upgrade by Standard & Poor – and Ohio’s fairly dramatic drop in unemployment in a year – came out the...
View ArticleAndy Stern. Scab for the Chinese.
Before you ask: I was raised in a union household. I know precisely what that word means, and I am using it precisely as my late father the local union president would have used it if he had lived to...
View ArticleDC City Council attacks Wal-Mart, poor people.
I swear to God, you’d think that the Democratic party just simply HATES people who live in cities. The council voted 8 to 5 Wednesday to impose a super-minimum wage of $12.50 an hour — well above the...
View ArticleLabor unions STILL thinking that they’re people wrt #obamacare?
I’m missing why union leadership expects movement on this issue. Unions are frustrated the Obama administration hasn’t responded to their calls for changes to ObamaCare. Labor has watched with growing...
View Article@BarackObama attacks the right of workers to strike. …Wait, WHAT?
Apparently the labor union movement has been deemed to be nonessential government employees: Obama: If a worker shut down a manufacturing plant until they got what they wanted, they'd be fired. Watch...
View ArticleAFSCME in dues freefall after Wisconsin labor union reforms.
Maintain your composure, people. No tears! No tears: The 2011 state law that all but ended collective bargaining for most public workers has hit Wisconsin’s second largest union hard. The Capital...
View ArticleLabor unions utterly betrayed by #obamacare.
Try to restrain your evil laughter. Labor leaders who have spent months lobbying unsuccessfully for special protections under the Affordable Care Act warned this week that the White House’s continued...
View ArticleRooting for Injuries Watch: labor union targets anti-Keystone House members.
Mind you, I want the unions to win this one. After they’ve gone round and round with the Greenies a few more times. Which is horribly partisan of me; then again, so is everybody else. A letter...
View ArticleIndiana to fine boycotting Democrats.
$250 dollars a day starting Monday, until they return and start doing their jobs. The article suggests that Indiana Democrats may not take this seriously*, as fines of this sort have been threatened in...
View Article#rsrh Anti-labor Democrats? HAH!
I agree with Mickey Kaus on one thing: people like that aren’t Republicans, Lefty agitprop peddlers to the contrary. But progressives in California who are fighting public sector unions aren’t...
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