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• No check for you!

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 148
  Nice little bit of holiday cheer for Texas’ retired public employees this week. Retired public employees discovered yesterday that they would not receive additional $500 checks this year. According to Senator Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, they shouldn’t hold their breath for more benefits next cycle either. “I ...
  23 hours ago

• Unions, Energy Industry Tops in Political Contributions

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 509
  According to FollowTheMoney.org unions were some of the most generous with donations to political candidates and causes during the 2007-2008 donation cycle, the last cycle full reporting is known for. A close second place goes to the energy industry with Indian interests coming in third.Out of the top 50 highest ...
  2 days ago

• Loudon: Barack Obama and the Socialist Healthcare Scamsters

  
  RBO — Authority: 529
  Physicians for a National Health Program National Coordinator Dr. Quentin Young with Sen. Barack Obama at Dr. Young’s 80th birthday celebration in 2003.Trevor Loudon writes on his New Zeal blog:Despite little public clamor for government controlled health care, the US Senate is looking increasingly likely to pass ...
  3 days ago

• City to AFSCME: We have bargained in good faith

  
  The Peoria Chronicle — Authority: 423
  Here’s the official press release from the City of Peoria: Subject: NEGOTIATIONS WITH BARGAINING UNITS The budgetary problems of the City of Peoria projected for 2010 have been well publicized since June, 2009. A number of formal and informal meetings have been held with represented employee groups during the ...
  3 days ago

• Workers Rally to Shut Down School of Americas

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
        Hundreds of union members joined religious and human rights activists in a vigil and rally outside the gates of the School of the Americas (SOA) last weekend to demand that it be closed. Graduates of the school, operated by the U.S. Department of Defense at Fort Benning, Ga., have been linked to ...
  3 days ago

• A State Pensioner That Thinks He’s Blameless For Pension Mess

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 509
  The Chicago Tribune printed a letter to the editor that perfectly describes the disconnect that state workers have between their pensions and the political process. These state workers stare wide-eyed in faux innocence pretending that they themselves, as individuals, are wholly innocent of the mess that is our state ...
  4 days ago

• Spend Your Break Fighting for Justice

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 129
  Participants at Missouri alternative break by Marlan Maralit Are you a college senior considering a career in social change and want to help make change happen in the world around you? Do you believe that a strong labor movement is vital to fighting back the attacks on working families, on health care, and the ...
  4 days ago

• Colombians Mourn Colleagues Killed in Past Two Months

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
  When 14 Colombian trade union members were in the United States for a training program, they were unable to forget just how dangerous it is to support unions in their home country. During the two months they were here, four of their colleagues were assassinated. In a memorial service at AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., ...
  4 days ago

• SEIU and the Law of Intended Consequences

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  SEIU has made a good living off the law of unintended consequences .  Or so the labor union would have you think. The reality is, there’s nothing unintended about the consequences they reap.  And when it comes to local, state and federal lawmaking, SEIU banks on the propensity of the American people to respond to ...
  4 days ago

• Alaska State Troopers, AFSCME Members Profiled on National Geo Channel

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
      Alaska state troopers and AFSCME members (from left) Aileen Witrosky, Honie Culley and Anne Sears.         State trooper Ann Sears patrols 15 villages from an off-road post in Nome, a western Alaskan city of 35,000 residents. Riding in a boat or a snowmobile or flying a small plane, she ...
  6 days ago

• Kelliher earns another union endorsement

  
  Politics in Minnesota - Minnesota's Public Affairs News Service — Authority: 578
  Minnesota Speaker of the House and DFL gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher has collected another union endorsement, this time from the American Federation of State, County and Muncipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 65, which represents 13,000 employees in greater Minnesota. "Our members worry about how ...
  1 week ago

• A Premium Freeze? Don’t Believe It.

  
  FactCheck.org — Authority: 136
  In defense of House members who are under attack for supporting that body’s health care bill, two liberal-leaning organizations are on the air with ads that go overboard in describing the wonders of the legislation. Americans United for Change and a labor union, the American Federation of State, County and ...
  1 week ago

• Greater Minnesota AFSCME to back Kelliher for guv

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 665
  House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher is getting her second union endorsement for governor in as many days (and her third so far), this one from the 43,000-member  Greater Minnesota American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 65 , Minnesota Public Radio’s Polinaut reports. ...
  1 week ago

• Incoming Detroit City Council President shares budget priorities, hints at council budget moves Friday

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 649
  FERNDALE– Charles Pugh, the recently elected Detroit City Council President, says he won’t back cuts to police or fire programs, public transportation or cuts to the city’s health department programs dealing with HIV/AIDS. “Everything else is on the table,” Pugh said. He said moves to cut services from ...
  1 week ago

• Majority of County Cleaning Staff Calls in Sick

  
  Lakeshore Laments — Authority: 142
  Good, this is making the decision to contract out services look smarter by the second . (Its also making the county housekeepers union look petty.) One day after the Milwaukee County Board agreed to privatize scores of county housekeepers, 19 of the 25 custodial staff at the Courthouse complex called in sick, ...
  1 week ago

• State reaches tenative agreement with police union

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 627
  The union representing state troopers and game wardens has reached an agreement with the state aimed at saving 43 jobs, Gov. Chet Culver announced Tuesday. The State Police Officers Council (SPOC) has agreed that its 640 members will take five furlough days during the remaining 7 months of FY2010, a move that ...
  1 week ago

• Action Alert : County Informational Picket - Wed. 11/18

  
  Cognitive Dissidence — Authority: 552
  Join the AFSCME District Council 48 County Locals for an Informational Picket at the Milwaukee County Courthouse during the lunch hour TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 18 TH from 12noon – 1pm. We will be working to send a message to the County Board before they walk into their meeting and consider the overriding of County ...
  1 week ago

• AFSCME opposes Gitmo North

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 580
  Heres a union that possesses some common sense. Hooray for them. WSIL-TV in Carterville, Illinois explains: The union that represents most Illinois prison workers is speaking out against a proposal to sell a state correctional center. Governor Pat Quinn, (D)-Illinois, and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, (D)-Illinois, ...
  1 week ago

• No council meeting Tuesday

  
  The Peoria Chronicle — Authority: 423
  From Alma Brown, City of Peoria Communications Manager: Pursuant to Rule 32 of the Council Rules, the Peoria City Council Meeting scheduled for November 17, 2009 is hereby canceled. The cancellation is due to the City Council’s inability to make budget decisions necessary to close the deficit and bring forward a ...
  1 week ago

• 26,000 CWA Members Approve Pact with AT&T—and More Bargaining News

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
  Some 26,000 CWA members ratify pact with AT&T in the Southwest, and more news from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 1,200 subscribers. Union leaders can register for this service through our ...
  1 week ago

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