“We will not surrender, and we will not retreat”
Posted on Nov 21, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
That’s Nicholas Sarkozy on ongoing French public transit employee strikes. (PLUS: 30% more intrigue and sabotage!)
Posted on Nov 21, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
That’s Nicholas Sarkozy on ongoing French public transit employee strikes. (PLUS: 30% more intrigue and sabotage!)
Posted on Nov 13, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
At this point, it’s safe to assume there will be a strike by French public workers more often than the Olympics come around (though, interestingly, they never seem to coincide). Taking none to kindly to proposed reforms by Nicholas Sarkozy, who wants to cut back on pensions that allow public employees to retire at 50 […]
Posted on Jun 26, 2007 by J. Justin Wilson
As the Senate votes to close debate on the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (literally as I type), today’s Congressional Quarterly quotes Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden saying that although he’ll miss more and more votes in his bid to become president, he wouldn’t dare miss the vote on EFCA: “I will be completely […]
Posted on May 30, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
The Boston Globe‘s Steve Bailey weighs in against ending secret ballots for working Americans: Labor has also made its war on the secret ballot among its top priorities in Congress. In March, Democrats in the US House passed the cynically named Employee Free Choice Act, which would do in the private sector what the Massachusetts […]
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The Wall Street Journal‘s Alan Murray has a great column this morning shedding some light on the motivations and machinations of SEIU president Andy Stern, who “may be the most perceptive, peripatetic and puzzling labor leader in the world today.” There’s plenty of important information to glean from the article if you want to understand […]
Posted on May 25, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Another sad case of officials abusing their power: The former president of a postal workers union was indicted today by a federal grand jury in San Francisco on charges of embezzling more than $170,000 and falsifying records to cover his tracks. Graham Paul Vane, 59, of Pacifica stole money from the National Association of Letter […]
Posted on May 08, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
UNITE HERE organizers continue to be the poster children for ethically challenged union organizing. Today we check in with the San Francisco Chronicle, where a local hotelier says UNITE HERE Local 2850 leaders are acting under the guise of a non-profit organization named EBASE (though “debase” may be a more appropriate term). From Hugh MacIntosh, […]
Posted on Apr 04, 2007 by Jon Berry
On Friday we blogged about Colorado State Representative Mike Merrifield, who speculated that “[t]here must be a special place in Hell for these Privatizers, Charerizers, and Voucherizers! They deserve it!” At the time of his comments, Merrifield was chairman of the state House Education Committee, having been buoyed in his political career by money from […]
