JUNE 1, 2010 The Union Pension Bailout A scheme for taxpayers to cover mismanaged multi-employer plans. Feeling tapped out after stimulus, ObamaCare and everything else? Senator Bob Casey has one more deal for you. If the Pennsylvania Democrat gets his way, U.S. taxpayers will also pick up the astonishing tab for poorly managed union pension
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BP and the Union Foot on Obama’s Neck Lurita Doan Monday, May 31, 2010 Elizabeth Birnbaum, Director of Minerals Management (MMS) at the Department of the Interior, resigned over the BP spill, in a classic, sacrifice-a-pawn, let-the-heads-roll, political sacrificial lamb ploy that folks in DC have witnessed countless times. Someone had to go. Anger over
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MAY 21, 2010 By JOHN FUND Elections this month have enhanced the political clout of two groups widely separated on the political spectrum. The tea party movement stands to play an outsize role in the fall elections now that outsider Rand Paul has swept Kentucky’s GOP Senate primary, while unions provided the muscle for Democrats
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Carolina Journal Exclusives Collective Bargaining Bill for Public Safety Workers Could Cost Taxpayers Federal legislation would override North Carolina ban on union organizing By Donna Martinez May 18, 2010 RALEIGH — Nearly 32,000 North Carolina state and local public safety employees could begin negotiating contracts with unions if recently introduced federal legislation becomes law. S.
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Mayor Villaraigosa’s nightmare numbers. By George F. Will | NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated May 17, 2010 Los Angeles—to get from downtown to the residence of the man who, in 2005, became the first Hispanic elected mayor since 1870, you drive through a sliver of Korea. With 125,000 people packed into 2.7 of the
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http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/40019/ Who organized all the May 1st prostest rallies? Who put these marchers on the street so fast? The above video reveals the scary answer .. A communist handbook for France and Europe: “The Coming Insurrection.” Put out by the Invisible Committee, says that the time to take the system is now: Europe promised us
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MAY 3, 2010 Free Speech for Some Unions get a pass from new campaign finance disclosure rules. Democrats in Congress last week introduced White House-backed legislation that would indirectly reinstate free-speech restrictions that the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in January. Backers say the measure will force disclosure of corporate money in politics, but the real
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latimes.com America’s lead weight Unions have benefited the country, but changes in the economy have made mainstream unionism itself an impediment to growth. Robert “Mickey” Kaus May 3, 2010 Do you have to love labor unions to be a good Democrat? That was the question raised last year by the unpopular bailouts of unionized Detroit
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APRIL 14, 2010 Andy’s Labors ‘A little more unemployment but a lot more equality.’ Andy Stern has picked a good time to head for the exits. The president of the Service Employees International Union—otherwise known as the most powerful labor chief in America—is expected to step down later this week, two years before the end
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APRIL 14, 2010 Crony Contracts Want federal business? Better be a union shop. There’s almost a direct correlation these days between the Obama Administration’s complaints about “special interests” and its own fealty to such interests. Consider its latest decree that federal contractors must be union shops. The federal rule, which went live yesterday, implements an
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