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  • Can Unemployment Dip Back Under 10% Before Year-End?


    24/7 Wall St.Authority Authority: 692
    There is a slew of economic data hitting the tape this week.  Friday’s report from the Labor Department on Unemployment and the change in non-Farm Payrolls will dwarf all economic reports.  The consensus estimate for November is an expected repeat of 10.2% unemployment from both Bloomberg and from Dow Jones.  But ...
    4 hours ago
  • Forecast for South Carolina Economy remains gloomy


    TitusOneNineAuthority Authority: 546
    Roughly half a million adults in South Carolina are unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking. That is nearly 1 in 4 eligible workers in the state. And the months ahead look grim to John Rainey, South Carolinas chief economic forecaster. "I dont feel hopeless, but its hard to feel hopeful," Rainey said. He ...
    10 hours ago
  • AFT, Save the Children Valentine Card Contest to Unite a Generation


    AFL-CIO NOW BLOGAuthority Authority: 648
          AFT and the children’s advocacy group Save the Children have partnered in a Valentine’s Day 2010 Card Contest as part of Save the Children’s campaign to end child poverty in the nation. You can help pick the winning cards. The five winning designs—one each from kindergarten through grade ...
    1 day ago
  • David Ignatius: The jobless scary movie


    TitusOneNineAuthority Authority: 546
    For a political horror show, fast-forward to the summer of 2010: The unemployment rate is stubbornly high, hovering between 9.3 and 9.7 percent. Companies are wary about hiring more workers because the economy remains soft. Small businesses, which normally power a recovery, are caught in a credit squeeze. In this ...
    2 days ago
  • Check Out UNITEHERE’s Hotel Guide Before You Travel


    AFL-CIO NOW BLOGAuthority Authority: 648
          If you have plans to travel this holiday season, check out the UNITEHERE! Union Hotel Guide before you book a room. The user-friendly online directory helps you identify union-staffed hotels across the country. Just plug in city and state, and the site will display a list of hotels in the area that ...
    2 days ago
  • Supreme Court issuing fewer rulings


    American Conservative DailyAuthority Authority: 458
    For the first time under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the Supreme Court failed to issue opinions before Thanksgiving in any of the cases that were argued in recent months. The court operates under no deadlines, but usually produces an opinion or two by the middle of November, especially if Chief Justice Roberts ...
    2 days ago
  • Seattle +10: SE MN Labor Council presents "Trade Off" and a chance to talk about fair trade


    Bluestem PrairieAuthority Authority: 626
    The recent murders of four union members in Colombia underscores the tensions that remain with the doctrine of free trade since the WTO protests in Seattle ten years ago; a trade agreement with the South American nation remains stalled because of human rights concerns . (In March 2008, Bluestem Prairie 1.0 noted ...
    2 days ago
  • Charges Filed in Kenneth Gladney Beating Case


    Bob McCarty WritesAuthority Authority: 438
    Two and a half months after 39-year-old Kenneth Gladney (right) was beaten in St. Louis by SEIU thugs outside Bernard Middle School, charges have finally been filed against six individuals, according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.The charges come 15 days after I asked the question, Why No Charges in ...
    4 days ago
  • College Graduates Struggle To Repay Loans


    TitusOneNineAuthority Authority: 546
    Samantha Green graduated from Indiana University in May with a $50,000 debt, a degree in journalism and a burning desire to start her career in Chicago. So far, the only job offers she has gotten are temporary or minimum-wage sales jobs. "Its just not something thats a good fit for me," says Green, who is doing odd ...
    6 days ago
  • Hosting Terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: The New Growth Industry


    Big GovernmentAuthority Authority: 818
    Lawmakers in New York and Illinois were quick to recognize that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial offered a new opportunity to secure billions of additional taxpayer funds. Both states are reeling from the combined effect of economic slowdown and years of profligate spending on government, grown far beyond what the ...
    1 week ago
  • CHARGES FILED: SEIU VIOLATED LAWS, CHANGED MARKED BALLOTS, THREATENED VOTERS


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    1 week ago
  • BREAKING: ACORN ENGAGED IN MASSIVE DOCUMENT DUMP IN SAN DIEGO, OCTOBER 9th


    lgstarrAuthority Authority: 139
    Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General’s visit. ...ACORN’s political agenda is also exposed, with ...
    1 week ago
  • Mahoney Selected OPEIU Secretary-Treasurer


    AFL-CIO NOW BLOGAuthority Authority: 648
        Mary Mahoney         The Office and Professional Employees ( OPEIU ) selected Mary Mahoney as the union’s new secretary-treasurer. Mahoney, currently an OPEIU vice president, will take office Jan. 1, 2010, and replace Nancy Wohlforth, who is retiring. Mahoney began her union career ...
    1 week ago
  • Union Presence Noted in Photos at Highway K Rally


    Bob McCarty WritesAuthority Authority: 438
    A whopping six protesters in favor of government-run health care showed up Saturday to counter anti-socialism protesters during their weekly rally at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo.Who was in the small group that was outnumbered 22 to 1 by the folks on the other side of the road?  Who was [...]
    1 week ago
  • WSJ: Weighing Jobs and Deficit


    TitusOneNineAuthority Authority: 546
    The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit, administration officials said. There is as yet no agreement within the White House or in Congress on how to try to ...
    1 week ago
  • Worker Occupations And The Future Of Radical Labor By Noam Chomsky and Diane Krauthamer


    Dandelion SaladAuthority Authority: 520
    Dandelion SaladWatch the interview: Industrial Worker (IWW Newspaper) interviews Noam Chomsky By Noam Chomskyand Diane KrauthamerIWW InterviewZNetNoam Chomsky’s ZSpace PageNov. 20, 2009This interview was conducted on Oct. 9, 2009, at Professor Noam Chomsky’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...
    1 week ago
  • Union thuggery: SEIU boss urges "old school ass whipping"


    Marathon PunditAuthority Authority: 579
    In June, an election was among home health care workers in Fresno, California so they could decide which union represent them, SEIU-UCW or the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). Watch as SEIU boss Dave Regan appeals to the darkest emotions of the crowd as he implores them to "drive a stake through the ...
    1 week ago
  • SEIU boss threatens Boy Scout volunteers


    Marathon PunditAuthority Authority: 579
    And the union people crawled away. Billy Joel, "Allentown," 1982. Since Barack Obamas inauguration, Service Employees International Union president has visited the White House an astounding 22 times. Stern boasts that his union spent $60 million to place Obama inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Stories like this ...
    1 week ago
  • Video: Home Health Workers In Fresno Threatened By SEIU Thugs


    THE HOT JOINTSAuthority Authority: 141
    The gangsters in the SEIU are at it again! This time in Fresno, CA where they were determined to “represent” home health workers. The workers could either willingly vote for SEIU or SEIU came out to their home and voted for them. SEIU is President Obama’s favorite union. He brags about working with these f*cking ...
    1 week ago
  • Amy Henry—Idle Hands: Some Puritan Advice for the Unemployed


    TitusOneNineAuthority Authority: 546
    Reformer and forefather of much Puritan theology, Martin Luther, in his doctrine of vocation, taught that God gave each individual an occupational "calling." Mans vocation was not seen as impersonal and random, but as from a loving and personal God who bestowed each individual with natural talents and desires for a ...
    1 week ago

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