Posted on Jan 11, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
Furloughs have been proposed for state workers in California in order to close the budget gap, but unions like the SEIU is adamant that furloughs do not actually save money. Workers have to make up undone work with overtime; they are completely ineffective, and then there is lost productivity, and…..the list continues. Let me repeat, […]
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 Oct 16, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
If you were flipping through the Washington Post this week and caught a glimpse of the union-driven ads against health care, you should have noticed a name missing from the signatories—President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa. Many unions have pushed back on the health care bill because of the missing public option; […]
Posted on Oct 05, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
The mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, is the mayor of a large, liberal, and lovely city– a city that happens to have active, vociferous unions. This is California, after all. It just so happens that Mr. Newsom despises the local SEIU. And they him. Here’s a round up of the increasingly nasty confrontations between […]
Posted on Sep 29, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Thanks to a floundering economy, the trucking industry has been hemorrhaging workers, and YRC Worldwide has had a terrible year. Labor contract negotiations were painful throughout the summer, and YRC received generous concessions from its employees at New Penn just to stay afloat. The result was lost jobs and an uncertain future for the trucking […]
Posted on Sep 04, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
As the health care bill debate continues to boil, union leaders are learning to take what they can get. Perhaps union leaders did not expect the fervor coming from hard working Americans worried about the “public option” in the proposed health care bill, but come it did. When the public option became the (rallying cry)/ […]
Posted on Aug 19, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmVN1glQnAo[/youtube] With Richard Trumka the heir apparent at the AFL-CIO, it looks like Sweeney is letting him lead the campaign for card check and government run health care program. That explains why he’s willing to attack any Congressman or woman who opposes the union’s demand to pass EFCA and a so-called “public option” health care […]
