Posted on Aug 03, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
That’s not a typo. Not only did she call it the “Employer Freed Choice Act,” which is embarrassing enough, but she told the Communications Workers of America that EFCA ought soon be the “law of the land.” They applauded. From the CWA: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe9Qd5J3EN4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Posted on Jul 21, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
Remember the the Hollywood strike of 2007-2007 by the Writer’s Guild of America. Your favorite show probably had a strangely short season. Plot lines were truncated. Favorite shows on the cusp of being renewed were canceled. It produced Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Colbert, Stewart, and Conan (remember him) fought. And we learned that some late […]
Posted on Jun 17, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
You cannot make up stories like this. Not if you try, and not in a thousand years. From the New York Post: A married, obese former president of a Port Authority union admitted yesterday in court to embezzling nearly $300,000 in member dues and using the cash for tawdry hook-ups with prostitutes, casino trips and […]
Posted on Jun 16, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
It’s summer time, and that means it’s time for America’s children to get to their summer reading! That is, unless you live in Santa Cruz, California, where the SEIU’s negotiations with the city may shut down local libraries for three months: “All but one county library could close for three months, smaller branches could be […]
Posted on Jun 15, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
When I see quotes like this from politicians and labor leaders, I think that this is less like the resurrection of EFCA (Frankenstein style) and more like a haunting that just won’t go away. Which do you think is more apropos? Pretending like EFCA isn’t dead will not make it less dead. From Richard Trumka […]
Posted on Jun 09, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
In what is being described by CNN as a landslide by women, Blanche Lincoln managed to hold off labor-backed Bill Halter in the hotly (and nastily) contested Democratic primary race in Arkansas. The AFL-CIO called the loss a “tremendous victory” for working families, and SEIU stood by their man as well. If this is what […]
Posted on Jun 08, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
–The SEIU sees blood in Arizona, and a chance to cash in. They put together a hotline for anyone traveling to Arizona to call in and get travel advisories. The hotline, if set up by anyone not far left of center, would result in pejoratives being hurled at them by ….everyone. But because the SEIU […]
Posted on May 21, 2010 by J. Justin Wilson
Um. Sometimes things just don’t make sense. Racine County has grass in its road’s medians. The Teamsters can’t and won’t mow it, but that doesn’t stop them from asking the County not to let local inmates do it for free. Teamsters leaders filed a grievance in 2009 after county officials began using volunteers from the […]
