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• Trumka: EFCA a socialist Trojan Horse

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 530
  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: 464
  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: 530
  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
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• High labor costs chase medical trade show out of Chicago

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 560
  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 ...
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• Women Becoming Majority of Union Workers

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 464
  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 ...
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• Violence at California SEIU Meeting

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 464
  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 ...
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• Union Violates Free Speech, the Right to Vote and Smashes Common American Democracy

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 704
  -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 ...
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• Union Violates Free Speech, the Right to vote and Smashes Common American Democracy

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 464
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Unions, card check, biggest losers on Election Day

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 560
  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 ...
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• EFCA is Bad. Dishonest Politicians Are Worse.

  
  RedState — Authority: 810
  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 ...
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• What vanishing middle class?

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 464
  My friend David Denholm has passed along an interesting post on unions, the economy, and the purported vanishing middle class. I wanted to pass it along to al of you here. David’s blog can be found at David’s VRWCWhat vanishing middle class?-By David DenholmThere is a constant refrain from union ...
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• Ill GOP has tough questions for Alexi Giannoulias regarding small businesses

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 560
  It will be small businesses, not Fortune 500 firms, and certainly not the federal government, who will pull us out of the recession. The Democrats are promoting obstacles to small business growth, such as the so-called Employee Free Choice Act and ObamaCare. In Illinois, Alexi Giannoulias is the frontrunner in the ...
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• Virginia Route Is On

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 139
  Based on this article , I’d say that the route is on in Virginia: Things are looking up for the Republicans’ down-ticket candidates, according to the latest poll for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, who is seeking re-election, and Ken Cuccinelli, the nominee for attorney general, are ...
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• Union extortionists may drive another trade show from Chicago

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 560
  Well, its sundown on the union And whats made in the U.S.A. Sure was a good idea Til greed got in the way. Bob Dylan, "Union Sundown," 1983. Chicago once was the trade show capital of America, no city came even close. According to Tradeshow Week, its now in third place, trailing Orlando and Las Vegas. There ...
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• Right To Work Prez Calls Out Newt’s Hypocrisy

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 464
  National Right to Work President Mark Mix is calling on Newt Gingrich to rescind his endorsement of Dede Scozzafava, the liberal candidate chosen by New York’s GOP powermen for the special election for the 23rd District Congressional seat. The reason? Scozzafava is a supporter of the Employee Free Choice Act ...
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• Halfway There: Donate for Organizers in Arkansas to Primary Blanche Lincoln

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  Yesterday, Jane followed up on her televised dare to Blanche Lincoln to filibuster the public option, when she warned that if Blanche filibustered, “she’d draw a primary challenger so fast it’d make your head spin.” Jane wrote here : But there are other things that can make a race attractive to a primary ...
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• Baseball Stars Knock It Out of the Park for Employee Free Choice

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
  Just in time for the World Series, 12 members of the Major League Baseball Players Association ( MLBPA ) have added their names to the broad coalition in support of the Employee Free Choice Act . The players have signed a statement and are appearing in print ads in Washington, D.C., papers today. World Series ...
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• Shuler in Oregon: The Sharks We Defeated Are Still Circling

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 652
  At the Oregon AFL-CIO convention, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler , who got her start organizing in Oregon, spoke yesterday to hundreds of delegates from across the state and encouraged them to start now on educating and mobilizing union members. Shuler told delegates:  Last year, you helped transform our ...
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• Video ‘Raps Up’ Employee Free Choice Act

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 566
  Remy’s new rap, captured in the video above, tells the truth about the incorrectly-named Employee Free Choice Act (a.k.a., “Card Check”), the subject of more than a half-dozen posts on this blog, including this one highlighting an editorial Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson (R-S.C.) wrote about the act ...
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