Posted on May 22, 2007 by Jon Berry
The Oakland school district claims it caught three high school teachers helping students cheat on the California state exit exam, and all three have agreed to resign their positions. What’s downright disturbing about the matter is that, in defending the teachers, the Oakland Education Association is treating teacher cheating as if it weren’t anything important. […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Columnist Deroy Murdock has a great piece over at NRO, where he reports on the dark side of the “card check” organizing scheme union bosses are hoping to install in place of secret ballot elections. “Beyond vote suppression,” he writes, “other union card-check tactics seem stolen from a Martin Scorsese picture.” Throwing a nice link […]
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Today’s Houston Chronicle features a column lambasting the Service Employees International Union for its stance on immigration reform. Whatever your position, the author says “any self-respecting union would blow its top at the very suggestion of a massive new guest-worker program.” SEIU officials are “backing a proposal to greatly expand the supply of low-cost labor […]
Posted on May 21, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Andy Stern of the Service Employees International Union has thrown $500,000 of his members’ money at a new organization designed to help young people with financial planning (sadly, the irony of a union boss managing young people’s money was not mentioned in coverage by The New York Times). There are obvious questions to be asked, […]
Posted on May 20, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
We’ve hit a stage where no one even bothers to hide Big Labor’s political power grabs. Take this from Oregon, where the Statesman Journal reports: And Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s administration aims to oblige unions on their biggest demand: state-paid health insurance premiums. “Fully paid health care is their No. 1 priority, which is why the […]
Posted on May 19, 2007 by Jon Berry
We got a note yesterday from the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (a Washington state think-tank that plays many parts, including that of labor union watchdog) tipping us off to an EFF initiative to keep union leaders accountable for their actions. Labor researchers at the EFF attempted to get records of the most recent negotiations between public-sector […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Labor allies are doing everything they can to deny that voter fraud existed in the last election (including writing “reports” and driving friendly-but-misleading media stories). Why? Because the labor-backed ACORN was again tied to voter fraud; the group is an embarassment for hiring lawbreakers with union member money. Well, once again, the facts don’t support […]
Posted on May 18, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Down in Floriday, Teamsters are menacing the Mouse Happy Birthday Starbucks Day! Those wascally Wobblies celebrate three futile years of trying to unionize Starbucks Not news: Another union boss guilty of embezzling, this time more than $26,000 from PACE members Having managed their membership numbers so well, union bosses are getting into the financial planning […]
