Posted on Apr 30, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
I’ve written about labor backed “green” jobs before (like HERE and HERE), It’s another way for unions to edge into jobs, harm companies and employees, and stomp their foot during contract negotiations. Here’s the setup. The Hill explains: “While the Obama administration’s embrace of nuclear energy has angered some environmental groups, it has won […]
Posted on Apr 29, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
Answer: Unions–and organizations getting money from them. From the NY Post: Five of the Top 10 lobbying and campaign-donating entities in 2009 were, broadly speaking, part of the health-care cartel. No. 1 was the Healthcare Education Project — an unholy alliance of the Greater New York Hospital Association and SEIU 1199, the health-care workers union […]
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Brad Peck from ChamberPost reports that the AFL-CIO is finally tearing down their “Faces of EFCA” campaign. I wonder if this is in response to a union grievance citing the AFL-CIO’s employees right to offices with windows. I wouldn’t put it past them. At the same, only a few minutes ago the AFL-CIO’s Trumka told […]
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Washingtonians have grown accustomed to the Carpenters Unions’ merry band of bums marching around in circles. If you’ve never encountered them before, the local Carpenter’s Council pays about 50 homeless people minimum wage to march and beat buckets all day long protesting non-union construction companies. The con, of course, is that the average passerby thinks […]
Posted on Apr 28, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
So while perusing The New York Times slide show on entitled “Buying in Bulk”, I ran across the an image that caught my eye. And the caption read as follows: “PUSHING THE CART Joe Ruggiero, 46, a maintenance technician for Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, with his co-worker Robert Alfonso, 55 IN THE […]
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Andy Stern had an eventful day. He attended his first fiscal commission, hosted by President Obama. I am sure it was enlightening as he explained how to drive an entity with a large budget into massive debt. His heir-apparent Anna Burger is looking anything but apparent at this point— but more on Mary Kay Henry […]
Posted on Apr 21, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
When seemingly every New York City-based news agency saw fit to cover the impending doorman’s strike, “country folk” across the country were left scratching their heads. When the crisis averted at midnight last night, you could almost hear relief pouring out of the news agency’s offices. Twitter lit up with heartfelt relief. I am not […]
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If you want to know how Big Labor got its claws into California’s taxpayers pockets, then check out “The Beholden State: How public-sector unions broke California” by Steven Malanga. Here’s a highlight from City Journal: “Meanwhile, what was once the most prosperous state now suffers from an unemployment rate far steeper than the nation’s and […]
