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• SEIU pumps itself up in mirror, plays Rocky theme song, rehearses talking points

  
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  Here’s a tip: Be careful what you label “For Internal Use Only- Not For Distribution.” And don’t put it on the internet. “Language Tips on Employee Free Choice” contains multiple tips, courtesy of the SEIU , on the verbiage of the the EFCA debate (see document below). I guess since the SEIU figured ...
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• Teamsters: Taking on freedom of speech around the world

  
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  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

  
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  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.

  
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  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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• “Labor Day” movie reviews: Painful to read as the movie is painful to watch.

  
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  The SEIU infomercial “Labor Day” came out this weekend. Here’s what a few people had to say. By far the most honest review for the film comes from The New York Times . The rest vacillate between sappy and pandering. Read the New York Times one first. Last things first: a credit at the end of “Labor ...
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• SEIU has what it takes to piss off a priest

  
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  The ongoing (6 year) labor saga at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital in, you guessed it, Santa Rosa, California, has hit a new low. . . or a new high, since a higher power is weighing in.  The local priest, Monsignor John Brenkle of St. Helena Catholic Church, is utterly fed up with the SEIU. Put simply, the SEIU has, ...
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• City of Angels . . . and Demons: President of LA Local cashes in, then taken in.

  
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  The former head of the SEIU Local 660, which represented more than 50,000 LA county workers until it folded into Local 721, was terribly creative in his attempt to make a little cash on the side…and take advantage of the members of the union he headed.  A shout out to the National Legal and Policy Center and Carl ...
  2 weeks ago

• Just the usual: Union fraud in Detroit (even Kwame is involved)

  
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  Detroit’s citizens (and union members) can’t catch a break. Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is even involved in this one too. According to the Detroit News, the general vice president of Local 324 of the International Union of Operating Engineers John M. Hamilton allegedly  received multiple kick backs for ...
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• SEIU stews in Chicago

  
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  The SIEU has descended en masse (Do they descend any other way?) on Chicago this week to protest the ABA (American Bankers Association). . . and Wall Street . . .and bailouts..and big banks. You get the idea. While it’s easy to blame a group that sounds guilty, like the American Bankers Association, it’s ...
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• The roofers are on fire.

  
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  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unions: Poor Authority on Port Authority

  
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  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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• SEIU, AFSCME bid to unionize home health care workers in Illinois fails miserably.

  
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  Other groups of home health care workers in Illinois have fallen in line, but not those who provide care to the developmentally disabled . Why? Fundamentally, these homecare workers didn’t buy it that the unions could help them. And aside from the drive receiving national press coverage, the entire unionization ...
  3 weeks ago

• Martin County, Florida: Union shoots self in the foot, takes 8 years to bleed out.

  
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  Martin County, Florida, July 2001: The Public Employees Union representing Martin County clerical and blue collar workers requests and successfully acquires a ruling from the county that allows workers to receive cash payouts instead of taking vacation.   The blue collar county workers request a plan estimated to ...
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• Empty bargaining tables and California’s public sector unions

  
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  On Friday, we were treated to news that the federal deficit is officially $1.42 trillion for fiscal year 2009. Couple that with California’s eventful week trying to solve their budget crisis (while dealing with their unions), and come Monday morning, you’ve got a spate of article on the role of unions, public ...
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• NLRB: No Longer Respects Bargaining

  
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  The National Labor Relations Board finds itself in awkward position–having been ordered multiple times by the Federal Labor Relations Authority to bargain with its own employees. According to the NLRB Union , the NLRB has yet to bargain in good faith. Employees of the National Labor Relation Board, seeing what ...
  3 weeks ago

• Beaker to NLRB Becker: “You, you, you, you, you.”

  
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  Next Wednesday, the Senate will likely vote on “three long stalled nominees” to join the 5-person, 3-man-down National Labor Relation Board. It’s been a problem that only 2 of the 5 positions are filled, but maybe there would be fewer issues if more ‘mainstream’ nominees were selected [read: not in organized ...
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• Jimmy Hoffa and SEC. 164

  
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  If you were flipping through the Washington Post this week and caught a glimpse of the union-driven ads against health care, you should have noticed a name missing from the signatories—President of the International Brotherhood of Teamstersr , Jimmy Hoffa . Many unions have pushed back on the health care bill ...
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• Ad-ing up the cost of health care reform

  
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  Last week, labor leaders passed among themselves a set of ads aimed at highlighting their distaste for the current shape of health care legislation. For some reason they don’t like the part where “cadillac” coverage is taxed to pay for everybody else’s coverage.  The missing public option is also a major ...
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• Union leader finds loose slots in Vegas.

  
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  I know this isn’t news, but a Teamster, the president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (55,000 members) has been arrested for accepting bribes. The AP reports : Edward Rodzwicz, who heads the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, is accused of soliciting and accepting $20,000 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Union leader finds loose slots in Vegas.

  
  LaborPains.org — Authority: 119
  I know this isn’t news, but a Teamster, the president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (55,000 members) has been arrested for accepting bribes. The AP reports : Edward Rodzwicz, who heads the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, is accused of soliciting and accepting $20,000 ...
  4 weeks ago

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