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• Tarryl Said What???

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 139
  I’m certain that Tarryl Clark’s fundraising letter will raise alot of money. That said, Tarryl said something that just can’t be left unaddressed: It’s time for a Congresswoman who will actually do the job and whose first and only priority is to fight for the people of Minnesota, not the conservative ...
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• Grad Students’ Struggle Shows Need for Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
  In a big victory last week, more than 1,000 graduate students at the University of Illinois exercised their freedom to bargain and won a contract that includes what all workers deserve: fair wages and better working conditions. Unfortunately, too many employees around the country are denied the freedom to bargain. ...
  2 days ago

• An RNC Purity Test?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  Reid Wilson has the first look at a resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, author of the infamous “socialist” resolution, that would aim to prevent future NY-23 disasters by requiring that candidates agree to at least seven of 10 issue promises in order to receive financial ...
  3 days ago

• SEIU Fixing the Vote in Fresno, Too

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 511
  A few weeks ago we reported on how the Services Employees International Union was attempting to fix the vote in Sonoma County, California so that Sonoma’s in-home healthcare workers would end up with SEIU representation instead of NUHW representation.Well, Sonoma wasn’t an isolated case. The SEIU used the same ...
  5 days ago

• American Rights at Work Honors Sweeney, Employee Free Choice Champions

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
  AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney accepts the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from American Rights at Work. AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney received the top honor at last night’s 5th annual American Rights at Work Eleanor Roosevelt Awards for his long-term dedication on behalf of workers’ ...
  1 week ago

• SEIU, Armies of 60, and Card Check

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 511
  Just a reminder, folks… card check is still lurking out there. Congress has yet to address it so it isn’t dead until it’s dead. And even then, no bad idea from democrats ever goes away, it just festers like an open sore ready to erupt anew.This from The TruthAboutTheEFCA.com:Mike O’Brien ...
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• Welcome to Work in Progress

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 765
  (photo by Blumpy) Hey, folks. Welcome to Work in Progress . This is the first day of Firedoglake’s new blog about work, jobs, unions, and the politics involved. In the midst of a floundering economy, it’s the issues that face people who work for a living that deserve the most attention. We’ll look at the ...
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• Canada’s Experts Skewer Shoddy Study on Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
  Opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act often claim the legislation would hurt employment. They base that falsehood on a study paid for by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its cronies, which purports to examine the effects of majority sign-up on the labor market in Canada. Now, a devastating new critique shows ...
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• Unions and Government: A Troublesome Combination

  
  HR Observations — Authority: 412
  I received a newsletter this morning from The Heritage Foundation . It was entitled Morning Bell: Big Labor Is Bankrupting Our Country.  It was an eye opener in some areas. ( In the spirit of openess, The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank. So if you want to discount this information it is up to ...
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• Trumka: EFCA a socialist Trojan Horse

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 538
  AFL-CIOs clever scare tactic exposed; private investment, jobs suppressedThe Senate stagnation on the union-backed Employee Free Choice Act — a bill that would make it easier for unions to organize workers — is “the best stall that we’ve ever” had, said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka today in a ...
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• Another Trade Show Dumps Chicago Over Union Ripoffs

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 511
  Another trade show is leaving Chicago this time for Atlanta, Georgia. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting which has been held in Chicago’s McCormick Convention Center for quite some time is leaving the city due to the high costs that unions force ...
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• Orwellian SEIU exposed!

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 538
  Union operatives secret newspeak memo leakedOppressive union bigs will do or say anything to strip workers right to secret-ballot unionization elections. Click image to enlarge.HT: nrtwc.org
  2 weeks ago

• High labor costs chase medical trade show out of Chicago

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 563
  And when I say "high labor costs," Im talking about union labor costs. And the Chicago Tribune certainly knows better, and its ridiculous that they omit that from their report. A premier medical trade show is dropping Chicago for its 2012 gathering and heading to Las Vegas instead, citing the high cost of labor ...
  2 weeks ago

• Women Becoming Majority of Union Workers

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 511
  The Associated Press had an interesting article reporting that women are fast becoming the majority of union members and will be the majority in 10 years if current trends continue.As it stand now, women make up 45 percent of union members today, up from 35 percent in 1983. Apparently white ...
  2 weeks ago

• Violence at California SEIU Meeting

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 511
  From BigGovernment.com:A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose alleged corruption within the union. Ken Hamidi is a state worker at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Union Violates Free Speech, the Right to Vote and Smashes Common American Democracy

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 714
  -By Warner Todd Huston There’s not much that union supporters and I can agree upon. But here is one incident where I can wholeheartedly support the aggrieved members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who have found themselves victims of their own union. The SEIU wanted to renegotiate a contract ...
  2 weeks ago

• Union Violates Free Speech, the Right to vote and Smashes Common American Democracy

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 511
  There’s not much that union supporters and I can agree upon. But here is one incident where I can wholeheartedly support the aggrieved members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who have found themselves victims of their own union.The SEIU wanted to renegotiate a contract with officials of Sonoma ...
  2 weeks ago

• Same EFCA Opponents Claiming To Defend Democracy Oppose Democratization Of Railway Labor Act

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 760
  Opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) like to portray themselves as the great defenders of democracy, protecting the “secret ballot” for workers everywhere. “There are sacred principles that epitomize American democracy ,” wrote Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the ranking member on the House Ed. and Labor ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unions, card check, biggest losers on Election Day

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 563
  The Democrats were big losers on Election Day. But the biggest of all? Michael Barone explains in the Wall Street Journal: But you missed seeing the guy who may have been the biggest loser of all—a man who according to recently released White House logs has been a guest in the White House 22 times since Barack ...
  3 weeks ago

• EFCA is Bad. Dishonest Politicians Are Worse.

  
  RedState — Authority: 817
  From the diaries, by Erick. Much to the pleasure of the organized labor movement, Sen. Tom Harkin, as the Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, stands to offer a tremendous amount of help to Big Labor. By pledging to pass a misleadingly-named and detrimental bill called the Employee Free ...
  3 weeks ago

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