Posted on Dec 15, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Across the country, pension funds are in the red, especially union managed, owned, and operated pension funds. And in California, pensions for state and local workers are an enormous portion of local budgets and tax payer dollars. The union-beleaguered mayor of San Francisco and Supervisor Sean Elsbernd are backing a proposal for San Francisco’s voters […]
Posted on Dec 11, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Jimmy Hoffa hates the health care bill in the Senate. He laid out exactly why in a press release yesterday. You can’t fight a hate like this. From the Teamsters Press release yesterday: WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Teamsters on Thursday announced their support for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) amendment to eliminate the proposed […]
Posted on Dec 09, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Exhibit #28 this year for an American city with a cash-strapped budget, Chicago, is home to the latest “take no prisoners” efforts of the SEIU. Last month, the Chicago Park District unveiled an unpopular compromise proposal that would preserve jobs and save money that the District doesn’t have. According to the Chicago Sun Times: In […]
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It was named in Minneapolis in August, but yesterday it was finally born. National Nurses United, as it is called, in the middle of their founding convention in Scottsdale, AZ, (Dec. 7-8). And who exactly is National Nurses United? It’s funny, but the San Francisco Chronicle piece from today doesn’t even need editorializing: “Nurses from […]
Posted on Dec 08, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
From the National Legal and Policy Center: After five years, a Chicago voting scandal, union-style, has reached its final conclusion. During the course of hearing on August 27 through September 29, six former officials of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 743 in Chicago were sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois […]
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SEIU’s president Andy Stern spent Friday gazing into the dying embers of his vision of how “pay to play” is supposed to work. See, when the SEIU contributed at the very least $60 million to Obama’s campaign, not only did Stern feel like that should be enough of a deposit to get the Employee Free […]
Posted on Dec 04, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
The SEIU’s strangle hold on health workers in Southern California took a major blow this week, thanks a ruling by the NLRB, and much to the joy of the NUHW. The LA Times reports: A federal labor board decision this week has given a major victory to a breakaway union vying with the giant Service […]
Posted on Dec 03, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Some things show up in my newsfeed and they just can’t be ignored. Like the AP article below. Just one more example of a union not putting the health and well-being of our nation’s citizens first. From this morning: PHILADELPHIA — Teamsters who work at American Red Cross blood services facilities in Philadelphia are on […]
