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from dailykos: Wonder Bread runs deep in my family. I started at Interstate Bakeries in 1999 in Waterloo, Ia after the birth of my first daughter. I asked my father in law who to talk to for an interview. He had spent his entire adult life there, eventually retiring in 2007. His father drew retirement from the very same bakery. My wife and her sisters experienced a truly middle class Midwestern upbringing, [...] On his nationally syndicated talk radio program Friday, Sean Hannity played audio of what he said were union workers in New York City yelling “Scabs!” and “Scumbags!” at nonunion utility workers who came to the city to help reconnect power lines after Hurricane Sandy. After the superstorm hit the northeastern U.S. Monday and Tuesday, the International Brotherhod of Electrical Workers reportedly demanding membership agreements from volunteer electric crews before allowing them [...] CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked a state court Monday to force Chicago school teachers back to work and end a weeklong strike he calls illegal. Emanuel spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton said city attorneys asked the Cook County Circuit Court to force Chicago Teachers Union members off the picket line and back into classrooms…. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CHICAGO_SCHOOLS_STRIKE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-17-11-20-59 pain has ordered the arrest of activists who have recently looted supermarkets to give food to the needy people in a protest at the country‘s economic crisis. The move came after hundreds of unemployed activists and union members stormed into two supermarkets in Arcos de la Frontera and in Ecija and took away nearly 30 shopping carts filled with food without paying. Far-left legislator Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo also took part in [...] David Cameron says only 20% of the Public and Commercial Services union turned out for vote so strike lacks credibility Strikes by Home Office [...] One school employee union in Michigan is demanding that members turn over bank account and credit card information so that the union can automatically claim monthly dues after the state voted to stop deducting the money on behalf of the union. “Debbie Bence, president of the Plymouth-Canton Cafeteria Association, sent a letter to her union members on June 4 stating that the dues had to be paid as a condition of [...] A union president’s letter shows one school employee union planned to handle automatic dues collection of its members by demanding full payment at the start of the year or requiring its members to give a checking or savings account number or credit card for automatic monthly withdrawals. Debbie Bence, president of the Plymouth-Canton Cafeteria Association, sent a letter to her union members on June 4 stating that the dues had to [...] Two new and disturbing polls just out suggest that the road to reelection is getting tougher for President Obama. In the most significant, Gallup found that union member support for the president is weaker than it was on Election Day. While Obama took 67 of the union vote, according to 2008 election night polling by Peter Hart for the AFL-CIO, Gallup discovered that just 58 percent of union members back the [...] With private-sector union membership shrinking, organized labor is now seeking counsel from the old adage, “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” On Jan. 24, the New York Post reported that “union goons resorted to outrageous tactics to browbeat hotel employees into joining their ranks — going so far as to photograph a female staffer as she changed clothes in an employee locker room, apparently to blackmail her.” Had this been an [...] With Republican-controlled Indiana on the verge of becoming a “right to work” state, Democrats in the state House on Tuesday took the only step they have left to prevent it, if only for a bit longer. They disappeared. Again. A final vote on the measure, which would bar union contracts from requiring nonunion members to pay fees for representation, had been expected Tuesday in the House, which Republicans dominate, 60-40. But with [...] Uploaded by RussiaToday on Dec 27, 2011 As Eurozone nations sink ever deeper into crisis, the UK Treasury is working on a contingency plan for the single currency’s collapse. It includes capital control measures that, under EU rules, require agreement from most of the Union members. Britain is also prepared to close its borders and evacuate expats and holidaymakers from the effected countries. Robert Oulds, president of the Bruge Groups of campaigners against [...] Reuters The first Mexican truck bound for the U.S. interior crossed at the international bridge at Laredo, Texas, on Friday, carrying electronic equipment destined for suburban Dallas and fulfilling a controversial provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Act. The move was praised by business leaders on both sides of the Rio Grande, while sign-waving Teamsters Union members in Laredo jeered. NAFTA called for Mexican trucks to be allowed to [...] One-out-of-two Likely U.S. Voters (50%) now believe that President Obama’s economic policies have hurt the economy, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Thirty-two percent (32%) think the president’s policies have helped the economy, while eight percent (8%) say they’ve had no impact. (To see question wording, click here.) Predictably, there’s a wide partisan difference of opinion. Sixty-one percent (61%) of Democrats say the [...] By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — About 45,000 Verizon workers will be back on the job Tuesday after a roughly two-week strike. The Communication Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers said the workers will return to their jobs while the unions keep negotiating with Verizon Communications Inc. “We have reached agreement with Verizon on how bargaining will proceed and how it will be restructured. [...] Vince Cable has said he will consider legislation to curb union power if they call too many strikes, but does not yet see a case for changing the law. The Business Secretary will today say there is not yet a compelling argument for toughening the current rules, which allow militant unions to call strikes even if fewer than half their members vote in favour. But, in a [...] THE union that represents 3,800 customer-service and sales staff employed by Air Canada has set a June 13th deadline for the ratification of a new contract, otherwise its members will go on strike. The workers have been without a contract since March 1st. The sticking point is Air Canada’s wish to reduce pension benefits for existing employees and change the pension plan for new workers from defined-benefit to defined-contribution, something [...] The fight for workers rights is spreading across America. Drawing their inspiration from Egypt and Wisconsin, nearly ten thousand union members and their supporters clogged the streets of Los Angeles this weekend, to let everyone know that they’re not going to stand for what they call an attack on the middle class - RT News Tuesday 29 March 2011 If you are wealthy, you are living in the Golden Age of your American Dream, and it’s a damned fine time to be alive. The two major political parties are working hammer and tong to bless you and keep you. The laws are being re-written – often by fiat, and in defiance of [...] By Sam Youngman Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a fundraiser in Philadelphia Friday, compared Republicans in Congress to people who excuse rapists by blaming their victims. The vice president, known for speaking his mind and at times putting his foot in his mouth, said that Republicans who want to cut spending while at the same time cutting taxes for the wealthy are similar to rape apologists. In [...] Sometimes it’s necessary to get out on the streets and “get a little bloody,” a Massachusetts Democrat said Tuesday in reference to labor battles in Wisconsin. Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) fired up a group of union members in Boston with a speech urging them to work down in the trenches to fend off limits to workers’ rights like those proposed in Wisconsin. “I’m proud to be here [...] by InMyBestInterest USA government employees need a good dose of austerity. Worthless parasites! Super-sized pensions, and a doomsday scenario US Public Pensions Face Day of Reckoning Most U.S. Union Members Are Working for the Government, New Data Shows Are Government Workers Taking Private Taxpayers to the Cleaners? More federal workers’ pay tops $150,000 Private pay shrinks to historic lows by InMyBestInterest Super-sized pensions, and a doomsday scenario US Public Pensions Face Day of Reckoning Most U.S. Union Members Are Working for the Government, New Data Shows Are Government Workers Taking Private Taxpayers to the Cleaners? More federal workers’ pay tops $150,000 Private pay shrinks to historic lows The excessive pay, benefits, and pensions of public employees – especially public employee union members – is bankrupting cities, counties, and states. Public employee union members are greatly overpaid because they often kick back as much as a thousand dollars in campaign contributions for every million dollars of excess pay, benefits, and pension increases they receive from liberal politicians taxpayers’ money. The management public employees are given even higher compensation, [...] Stimulus went to Dem base. 1. Unions–gov’t employee unions got a few 100 billion union/welfare bailout means union members get raises, benefits and pensions INCREASES for 2 more years without making sacrifice. This means the budget gaps of [...] The spreading cancer that will bring our nation to its knees is the parasitic government employee unions infesting every state and locality and the spineless “girlymen” politicians that suck up to whatever whim the unions demand. ABOLISH the unions and you ABOLISH the arrogant exaggerated senses of entitlement and value to others they represent and try to cram down your throats! The teachers unions (glorified day care center workers) are [...] http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?i… “A new bill introduced by Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania would set up a taxpayer bailout of underfunded, multiemployer union pension plans.” “In 1998, the multiemployer plans overall got to one worker for every retiree,” Brett McMahon of the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), a national trade association, told HUMAN EVENTS. “They’re much worse now. The Teamsters in particular [...] They are killing the USA on all levels of government and raping private taxpaying business and taxpayers each step of the way. They do not pay taxes as their entire income comes from private business and private individual taxes and therefore once again paid by private people. They produce NOTHING. They must be forced into getting in line with private industry in every aspect of [...] |
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