And, if people don't get on the horn to their representatives and senators it will likely pass. Imagine people with the power of life and death in their hands having no accountability to anyone. You don't have to imagine too hard, that's what's going to happen if the FOP and their brethren get...
I pose this question to our liberty-minded free-marketeers.
Are unions a necessary part of Free-Market Capitalism?
Or are they merely a tool of eventually overthrowing Capitalism?
I had a discussion today about what is happening at the steel mills in NWI. Sometime last year they had...
My wife is a 2nd grade teacher. She's been teaching there for 3 years. So, of course, we found out she's probably going to be riffed. We thought she was ok, because 1st and 2nd year teachers were the ones in trouble. Nope, come to find out her first year doesn't count, but she gets "points"...
I stopped using overpriced union ran UPS.
UPS stands for Union Priced Shipping.
FedEx has beat them on pricing on everything I have recently shipped.:yesway:
SEIU Leader Resigns After Threatening Legal Action Against Boy Scout
Posted By Publius On November 23, 2009 @ 7:30 pm In Big Labor | 46 Comments
From FoxNews.com [1]:
A union leader in Pennsylvania has resigned after being criticized for threatening legal action over an aspiring Eagle Scout’s...
This is simply unbelievable. Its un-democratic. Its un-American. Its exactly what I expect from the Obama administration.
The National Mediation Board, which oversees labor relations in the air and rail industry, this month moved to overturn 75 years of labor policy.
The board plans to...
Union and Whistleblower Complaint Documents SEIU Ballot Fraud
Posted By Publius On November 15, 2009 @ 6:03 pm In Big Labor, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 38 Comments
From the National Union of Healthcare Workers [1]:
Today’s Wall Street Journal [2] and Fresno Bee [3] report that SEIU...
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October 14, 2009
Tom Suhadolnik
As an entrepreneur and resident of Ohio I am used to swimming upstream. Ohio's economy never actually recovered from the 2001 recession. We have been hemorrhaging jobs and population for over a decade. Except for two nuclear power...
Blackmail?
Overt threats?
Labor Warns Dems: We'll Sit Out Election If You Oppose Public Plan | CommonDreams.org
Labor Warns Dems:
We'll Sit Out Election If You Oppose Public Plan
by Sam Stein
One of the country's most prominent union officials is warning that big labor may pull its...
Are you a union member? Yes or no. And if so, does your union protect your interests? If not would you want union representation? Please feel free to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of union employment...but keep it civil, please.
Example...there are no scabs here. :):
Im a Boilermaker out of 374, and its bad.
We have a couple hundred guys on the list, the mills booted out all of the maintenance companies and it doesnt look like its gonna get any better anytime soon. Im probably not going to have any work locally until March, but plan on heading out of...