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  • Moves afoot to wind up BSC


    Whale Oil Beef Hooked | A blog by Cameron Slater — Authority Authority: 143
    Via the tip-line I’m no fan of the union-like cartel that comes in the form of the Building & Services Contractors. I’ve posted on their El President Patrick Lee-Lo a number of times. Thanks to the tip-line, members of the ‘FISH GANG’ are looking at calling a special meeting seeking to dissolve the ...
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  • Two Unions Oppose Senate Immigration Bill


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    Two unions representing federal immigration workers said Monday they oppose the bipartisan Senate effort to overhaul the immigration system.
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  • Rally For Livable Wages in Washington — The 9th Most Expensive U.S. City


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    Did you know that Washington, DC is the 9th most expensive American city to live in ? Did you also know that thousands of private sector workers whose jobs are supported by taxpayer dollars don’t earn enough to live in the city where they work ? Tomorrow, those workers are rallying for livable wages, in ...
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  • HotSeat: Floridas Tony Bennett


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    So far, Florida’s new state superintendent of education, Tony Bennett, is having what seems like an awfully good time. He’s head of one of the most pro-reform school systems in the nation. He’s got the support of both the governor, Rick Scott, who tapped him for the job, and a powerful business and reform ...
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  • Lining Up For a Job Lift


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    The men began arriving last Wednesday, first a trickle, then dozens. By Friday there were hundreds of them, along with a few women. They set up their tents and mattresses on the sidewalk in Long Island City, Queens, unpacked their Coronas and cards – and settled in to wait as long as five days and nights for a ...
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  • Quinn Says Illinois Lawmakers Could Make History This Session


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    News links:  Associated Press Illinois Governor Pat Quinn says state lawmakers could make some historic moves by the end of this legislative session if they so choose.  Today, Quinn urged state legislators to pass a marriage equality bill that is ...
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  • Monday Links


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    *  I have recently asked my colleagues at UCSD questions such as: How many adjunct/contingent/non-tenure track faculty are there in your department? Can you name them? Have you met any adjuncts for coffee or lunch on campus? Are they invited to the homes of ladder rank faculty? Do they have office space? Do they ...
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  • Buyer’s remorse: ObamaCare tax will slam union workers


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    By Paul Kersey - Americans for Tax Reform compiled a list of tax increases associated with Obamacare, and union workers in particular are staring at a whopper in a few years – a hefty tax on premium health insurance plans...
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  • France Officially Enacts Marriage Equality!


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    France officially enacted marriage equality this weekend when Socialist President Francois Hollande  signed the measure passed by the French legislature last month into law on Saturday, one day after the nations highest court ruled that the measure was indeed constitutional. France became the 14th country in the ...
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  • Chicago Union Leader Wins Second Term


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    The president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, has won a second three-year term, with about 80 percent of the vote in her favor. Vice President Jesse Sharkey was also re-elected. Lewis defeated Tanya Saunders-Wolffe, a school counselor. Wolffe hails from a different group within the union that has accused ...
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  • Republicans and business push to expand guest worker programs


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    Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Guest worker visas are resurfacing as one of the most contentious parts of immigration reform negotiations. Despite the compromise deal between the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO that went into the bipartisan Senate proposal, there are a number of Republican efforts to increase numbers ...
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  • Thomas Perez: Big Labors pick for Labor Secretary


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    I strongly suspect that Big Labor has muted their opposition to Obama crony Penny Pritzker as Commerce Secretary in exchange for putting radical lawyer Thomas Perez in charge of the Labor Department. Here is more on Perez from the Wall Street Journal-- paid subscription required. Labor Secretary nominee Thomas ...
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  • Gang Of Eights Amnesty Bill Opposed By Two Immigration Enforcement Unions


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    By Susan Duclos Two unions, representing 20,000  Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement employees, are opposed to the immigration bill proposed by the so-called "gang of 8," which critics have labeled an amnesty bill. On April 23, 2013, I wrote about the President of the National Immigration and ...
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  • The Smoking Gun? Obama meets with IRS union chief the day before they begin targeting the Tea Party


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    They didnt waste any time. “For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal? Is the White House Visitors ...
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  • Today in Labor History—May 20


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    May 20, 1639 – The first American public school was established in Dorchester, Mass. (From the Daily Bleed ) 1776 portrait of Brant May 20, 1776 – The Mohawks, under Joseph Brandt, defeated Americans at the Battle of the Cedars. (From the Daily Bleed ) May 20, 1911 ...
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  • Progressive Breakfast


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    MORNING MESSAGE: A Long Cold Summer For Young People Looking For Work OurFuture.org’s Isaiah J. Poole: “Just in the past decade Congress has cut $1 billion from youth jobs programs, according to a report by the Center for American Progress. And that is at a time when even before the Great Recession youth ...
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  • Gay News Headlines - Gay Rights, Marriage, Relationships


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  • NLRA prohibits childcare unionization


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    Rep. Franson introduced a letter from the law firm of Seaton, Peters & Revnew. Douglas P. Seaton wrote the letter. Rep. Franson read this section from the letter: The family child care providers affected by the proposed legislation can only be properly described as private sector under the HLRA and can not be ...
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  • A Long Cold Summer For Young People Looking For Work


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    I got my first job while I was in high school through a small community organization run by Willie J. Hardy, a community activist (and later D.C. City Council member) who operated out of what legendary Washington Post writer William Raspberry described as a “tiny, hopelessly cluttered quonset hut” in the Deanwood ...
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  • NLRB Update: Another Court of Appeals Dismantles Union Bosses’ Radical Labor Board


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