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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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• Reason TV Takes on the FedEx/UPS Fight

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 481
  -By Warner Todd Huston The best one-liner? “It tells us who the real villain is here… a federal government that is big enough and powerful enough that it can absolutely, positively guarantee that it can crush any business over night.” Of course, we talked about this FedEx/UPS argument last June . ...
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• Reason TV Takes on the FedEx/UPS Fight

  
  THE UNION LABEL — Authority: 464
  The best one-liner? “It tells us who the real villain is here… a federal government that is big enough and powerful enough that it can absolutely, positively guarantee that it can crush any business over night.”Of course, we talked about this FedEx/UPS argument last June.
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• How to kill FedEx jobs

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 530
  Why not use legislation to win what you cant in the marketplace?
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• Using Unions As Weapons: UPS v. FedEx

  
  Big Government — Authority: 809
  You may have heard the UPS is in quite the political fight with FEDEX. Though both are package-delivery companies, they’re governed by totally different federal labor rules. As a result, UPS’s workforce is much more heavily unionized than FEDEX’s-and more than twice as expensive. So now UPS is trying to ...
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• Reason TV: UPS’ War on Fed Ex

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 592
  Reason TV ’s Nick Gillespie explains the contemptible attempt by UPS to screw over FedEx. You may have heard the UPS is in quite the political fight with FEDEX. Though both are package-delivery companies, they’re governed by totally different federal labor rules. As a result, UPS’s workforce is much more ...
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• ‘General Strike’ talk grows, as British Columbians rally to fight back against the BC Liberals

  
  I'm Laila Yuile, and This Is How I See It — Authority: 125
  I was dreaming of my father last night, right before the thunderous rain against my bedroom window jolted me from my already restless slumber. The dream was a real memory of mine, of something that occurred when I was very young – surely before I was 6 or 7, but without asking him, I can’t put a year to it ...
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• Teamsters: Taking on freedom of speech around the world

  
  LaborPains.org — Authority: 119
  Together: Moyano and Kirchner Argentina has faced a lot of adversity in the last decade, not the least of which was the Kirchner Administration’s (and the legislature’s) recent attack on free speech and the press, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.   It doesn’t help that the Teamsters locals are ...
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• Retirement: Sexual harrassment by any other name

  
  LaborPains.org — Authority: 119
  One of 24 international vice presidents of the Teamsters, James Santangelo, has resigned his multiple posts within the Teamsters union. He was the president of Teamsters Joint Council 42 which represented 129,000 members in California, Hawaii, and elsewhere. He also led Local 848.  While the Teamsters maintain they ...
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• “Ridiculous assertion” doesn’t sound all that ridiculous regarding backroom deal.

  
  LaborPains.org — Authority: 112
  Loyal readers of DC Velocity , the only site, according to them, that offers content to distribution centers, warehousing and transportation, got a treat today.  Apparently, the whole incident involving the labor unions being up in arms over Anne Ferro’ s nomination to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ...
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• If at First You Don’t Succeed, Change the Rules.

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 668
  From attempting to manipulate the definition of “supervisor” to changing the way in which workers are organized , the above seems to be a guiding principle in organized labor’s bold new approach to increasing union membership. Consistent with that, some union friendly government officials are trying to change ...
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• Labor unions to protest layoffs at tonight’s Santa Ana City Council meeting

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 573
  November 2, 2009Contact: Jeff Rogers 323-627-0256Layoffs in Santa Ana’s City Workforce Threaten Public Safety While Hurting Spanish-Speakers and Economic RecoveryCity Workers rally at City Hall with supporters to highlight effects of service cutsSANTA ANA-Emergency calls placed to the Santa Ana Fire Department ...
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• 2009 BLG Labour and Employment Law Moot

  
  Omar Ha-Redeye — Authority: 121
  Omar Ha-Redeye participated in the 2009 Borden Ladner Gervais Labour and Employment Law moot and finished as a finalist, a second-place runner up in the competition. This year’s competition addressed a hypothetical appeal of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Evans v. Teamsters Union No. 31 , which ...
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• Composers and lyricists to form union?

  
  Eat Sleep Drink Music — Authority: 434
  I was shocked by this article . In the film, television, and video game industries, actors, directors, writers, cinematographers, and editors are each represented by their own guild. Somehow, composers and lyricists still aren’t unionized. The Society of Composers & Lyricists is now attempting to partner with ...
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• Illinois Elections 2010: Pat Quinn’s Poll Numbers Sink; Dan Hynes Endorsements, Ad Buys Grow–and Questions that Hynes May Drop Out Drop Off

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 475
  Comptroller Dan Hynes (Chicago, IL) — October 28, 2009 . Oh, how a few weeks can rewrite the political narrative. Governor Pat Quinn ’s job disapproval ratings have hit 53% and his approval ratings have skidded to 45%, according to a new Rasmussen poll in the Illinois 2010 governor’s race . Meanwhile, ...
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• The roofers are on fire.

  
  LaborPains.org — Authority: 119
  The headline in the Chicago Tribune says it all.  In fact I couldn’t think of a better one. “Roofers, landscapers in turf was over Chicago’s rooftop gardens: Roofers union feels pushed out of green roof pastures” Here are the parties involved, according to the NLRB: International Union of Operating ...
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• Hinds County and First Student: What Next?

  
  Majority In Mississippi — Authority: 135
  As I have said before, this is the fourth year of a four year contract between Hinds County School District and First Student to provide school bus transportation. It doesn’t appear that there were any problems with the two until bus drivers voted to join the Teamsters union last year. Needless to say, I don’t ...
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• AFSCME backs Dayton for governor

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 682
  Mark Dayton AFSCME Council 5, the state’s largest union for public employees, has endorsed former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton for governor. “Mark Dayton has won statewide elections — twice,” said Eliot Seide, director of AFSCME Council 5, in a press release announcing the endorsement. “Minnesotans know and like ...
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• Update: Strike Is Over

  
  Majority In Mississippi — Authority: 135
  I just wrote that we don’t have many strikes in Mississippi, and apparently when we do they don’t last too long. First Student and the union have agreed on a contract that now needs to be ratified by the members of the union. After that happens details of the contract will be public. Posted in Mississippi ...
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• Unions: Poor Authority on Port Authority

  
  LaborPains.org — Authority: 119
  The Journal of Commerce had some words for Bloomberg in the wake of his announcement that he will fall in line with Teamsters bid to re-regulate America’s trucking industry. Well, that’s not what the Teamsters are calling it exactly… they are calling their initiative “green” and “environmentally ...
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