Posted on Dec 01, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
I just love a good Photoshop stick figure piece of art work. While this image appears to be used time and again in reference to the Ken Hamidi beating from last month, there are just so many different times when this image would be appropriate like here, and here, and here, that I have been […]
Posted on Nov 18, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
It’s a guilty pleasure reporting on anything that even smacks of a connection between labor and the mob, so yesterday’s newspaper raids were an irresistible event. You can smell the stereotype wafting across the Hudson River. I had to share: According to the AP (not raided): Investigators in the city raided offices for some of […]
Posted on Oct 26, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
The headline in the Chicago Tribune says it all. In fact I couldn’t think of a better one. “Roofers, landscapers in turf was over Chicago’s rooftop gardens: Roofers union feels pushed out of green roof pastures” Here are the parties involved, according to the NLRB: International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150, AFL–CIO and International […]
Posted on Oct 19, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
The National Labor Relations Board finds itself in awkward position–having been ordered multiple times by the Federal Labor Relations Authority to bargain with its own employees. According to the NLRB Union, the NLRB has yet to bargain in good faith. Employees of the National Labor Relation Board, seeing what unionization has done to for so […]
Posted on Oct 09, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
As we head into winter, things are heating up in Massachusetts– just as the Charles River begins to freeze up. In the wake of the passing of longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, unions in Massachusetts are mobilizing for an “abbreviated” Democratic primary– a place where unions shine and shine and shine. The Boston Globe reports: “Special […]
Posted on Sep 28, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
The SEIU Local 1000 wants every state worker in California to know that they can take Columbus Day off, regardless of what the Department of Personnel Administration says. Part of the approved budget from February, the holiday was to be eliminated along with Lincoln’s birthday, but the SEIU says this contract cannot be enforced. Everyone […]
Posted on Sep 22, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Linden, New Jersey finds itself on the stinky side of the budget shortfall. Like many cities around the country, Linden was unable to make up a budget deficit of four million dollars–so the city decided to furlough city employees. The city had negotiated with unions to give everyone other than firefighters a three day unpaid […]
Posted on Sep 18, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Unions in California have a very, very short memory. Just last week, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed California’s card check bill because he was upset by the union’s dismissal of his number one legislative priority. The unions have forgotten that when SEIU gave United Farm Workers one million dollars to manhandle him into signing the state-wide card […]
