Posted on Apr 25, 2007 by Jon Berry
Teachers union activist/blogger Dr. Homeslice has turned up a clip that expresses some of the emotions felt when classrooms empty for a strike. Watch at your own risk — it’s a little crazy.
Posted on by Jon Berry
I’ve come across at least two blogs putting up photographs of teachers choosing not to comply with the strike against the Hayward school district in California’s Bay Area. I’m not going to link to the blogs themselves, but I will link to this Daily Review editorial condeming such unprofessional, unkind behavior: Teachers union President Kathy […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Back to the Future: UNITE HERE officials successfully negotiate with an employer to ditch a 401(k) plan in favor of a defined benefit plan. Next on the agenda: more crippling work rules! Fuzzy Union Math: A new report from the Center for American Progress claims passing the anti-democratic “Employee Free Choice Act” will help cut […]
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The National Right To Work Foundation has helped some Oregonians avoid the snare of SEIU officials’ dirty organizing tactics. As they attempt to build membership by skirting real secret ballot elections, SEIU is gaining a reputation for misleading would-be members. Now SEIU Local 49 officials have been forced to reach a settlement with the National […]
Posted on Apr 24, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Labor cheerleader Jonathan Tasini is a smart guy, and one heck of a blogger. But he’s off his rocker with his latest statement at The Huffington Post, where he’s using his virtual soapbox to try to whitewash the card check issue. He has the gall to say: “There is only one reason tens of millions […]
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John Sweeney’s wearing Brooks Brothers ties. It’s OK because the company is organized (by UNITE HERE, from the Change To Win unions that left Sweeney wearing nothing but an uncomfortable smirk). Guess that lavish salary affords a nice wardrobe. A former Colorado AFL-CIO official, ousted by Sweeney, complains that Sweeney acts too much like an […]
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The realities of the business world are complex, and leaders have to keep things competitive in an ever-changing market. Nowhere is that more apparent than when the union is the employer. In yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, reporter Jerry Hirsch noted that the potential for another major grocery strike is rooted in the one just three […]
Posted on by Jon Berry
The Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers has caved, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports this morning. As was blogged previously, union leadership attempted to deal with members voting out 14-year President Carolyn Savino by putting her in a full-time union post while cutting her victorious opponent’s job to part-time. It appears, however, that the will of […]
