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Obviously, Im a news junkie and like to categorize news pieces by topic. I originallyplaced my lists here for my own reference, but if others find it useful, fine, more power toyou.

Im not going to clean it up much or make it look pretty. The files serve my purpose. Thelinks work for the original article as well aswww.freerepublic.com s articles without anyformatting.

Free Republic is in-line with my views and I find their contributors to be very informative.

The best source of information on specific people and organizations I have found ishttp://www.discoverthenetworks.org/summary.asp?object=Persons&category=

The best source of information on the networking of people and organizations ishttp://www.muckety.com/

Also on Discover the Networks is:

Every conservative in the position to hire new employees should have this list of leftleaning schools. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewGroups.asp?type=aca-i

Left leaning professors herehttp://www.discoverthenetworks.org/IndividualDesc.asp?type=aca

June 5, 2012s confirmation to keep Wisconsins Governor Walker was a major blow to theunions, but that only means they have to regroup and change their strategy.

The unions and their massive number of people have more power than the money of theBilderberg and Davos crowd. The unions have aligned themselves with the United Nationsand an agenda of a One World Government.

In here you will see that almost all of our ills are due to unions:

Union bosses are not elected by usThe government pension tsunami is due to unfunded pensionsThe growth of government is due to the growth of dependentsThe growth of teachers is due to the influx of foreigners

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The growth of prisons is due to the influx of foreignersThe growth of social welfare is due to the influx of foreignersThe growth of healthcare facilities is due to the influx of foreignersIllegal aliens and their children are dependentsThe war on families is promoted by unions and their associated ACORN and Planned

ParenthoodUnions have systematically opposed our sovereigntyOccupy Wall Street and class warfare is supported by unionsUnions have gone globalUnions have taken credit for The Arab SpringUnions back the United NationsUnions back the redistribution of wealth to other nationsUnions back sustainable developmentPoliticians are bought by unionsUnions only back DemocratsGovernment decisions must go thru the unions

School reforms must go thru unionsUnions are for the teachers and administrators, not the kidsMany private unions would not exist if not for government mandates, road construction,large construction sites, and military contractsGovernment projects would cost much less left to open bidsGreen jobs are mostly unskilled labor and union jobsCalifornias first private solar certification program was forcefully taken over by the unionsBarack Obama was backed by unionsBarack Obamas policies were dictated by unions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlXwV_QNrEYouTube title: Andy Stern: Justice for All

Andrew Stern, from the SEIU YouTube page dated April 10, 2008.

Listen to this guy as he lays out the Obama administrations agenda for a union governedAmerica, a union governed world, with free healthcare for all. This is before Obama waselected. This shows you that the unions are running the country.

3:30 We affirm SEIUs commitment to changing this country as well as the democraticand free debate.

4:06 If we adopt the Justice for All program, by the end of four years, we will have wonhealthcare for every man, every woman and every child in the United States and PuertoRico.

If we adopt the Justice for All program, We will rebalance the power between bigcorporations and people that work by adopting the Employee Free Choice Act.

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We are trying to use the powers of persuasion, and if thatdoesnt work, then well use the persuasion of powerbecause there are governments and there are opportunities

to change laws that affect these countries. Im not naive,were ready to strike.

There are opportunities in America to share better in the

wealth, the rebalance of power and unions and government are

part of the solution.

Andrew Stern, Changing our countries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlXwV_QNrE&feature=related

Read On.

Deleted by FR, but good

Immigration, the Republicans, and the End of White America

The American Conservative ^ | 21 Sept 2011 | Ron Unz

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/immigration-republicans-and-the-end-of-white-america-singlepage/

The sources of Americas immigration problemsand a possible solution LastJune the U.S. Census disclosed that non-white births in America were on the vergeof surpassing the white total and might do so as early as the end of this year. Suchan event marks an unprecedented racial watershed in American history. Over thelast few years, various demographic projections from that same agency and

independent analysts have provided somewhat fluctuating estimates of the dateperhaps 2042 or 2037 or 2050at which white Americans will become a minority.This represents a remarkable, almost unimaginable, demographic change from ourcountry of the...

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Unions to Boeing: We'll Tell You Where to Build Your Plants

FOX ^

Unions to Boeing: We'll Tell You Where to Build Your Plants By Dunstan Prial

Published April 21, 2011 | FOXBusiness A complaint against Boeing (NYSE:BA)filed by the National Labor Relations Board came under sharp attack Thursday bycritics who charged that the aerospace giant is being unfairly targeted by pro-unionelements of the Obama Administration. Its just another union handout by theObama Administration, and in this case at the expense of a right-to-work state,said F. Vincent Vernuccio, labor policy counsel at the Competitive EnterpriseInstitute, a conservative research center. The NLRB on Wednesday said Boeing hadviolated...

New Labor plan: Nationwide protests [Service Employees

International Union....]

Politico ^

New Labor plan: Nationwide protests By: Ben Smith April 21, 2011 02:31 PMEDT In a major strategic shift, the Service Employees International Union plans touse its giant political operation to try to build a grass-roots movement of publicprotest and organization similar to the massive show of pro-labor support thatoverran Madison, Wis., last month. The SEIUs ambitious effort is a dramatic

departure from its straightforward approach to the 2008 campaign. That year, theunion pressed a single-minded and ultimately successful focus on gettingDemocrats to commit to a health care overhaul. Then it spent more than $32.5...

Union to employees: Save money, boycott Florida and Ohio

Politico ^

Union to employees: Save money, boycott Florida and Ohio By: Robin BravenderApril 21, 2011 12:41 PM EDT Federal employees in Chicago are being asked toskip nights out on the town and rethink that trip to Disney World or the Rock andRoll Hall of Fame. The freeze on federal workers salaries and likely additionalspending cuts from Congress have union officials telling employees at theEnvironmental Protection Agency and other agencies in the Chicago area to hunkerdown. With the freeze on Federal employees salaries for at least two years and therising cost of necessities, we are...

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Union Goons Threaten Wisconsin Business

fox news ^| 3/31/11 | Don Walker of the Journal Sentinel

Members of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, havebegun circulating letters to businesses in southeast Wisconsin, warning that theywill face a boycott if they don't support collective bargaining for public employeeunions.

Paycheck Protection

IBD Editorials ^ | March 30, 2011 | Staff

Labor: Wisconsin's government has stopped collecting union dues from itsemployees. The Florida House has voted to do the same. This is a smart move thatall employers, public and private, should adopt. Paychecks are always shot throughwith deductions. Most are tax-related. In some cases, funds are also deducted frompaychecks at workers' direction for charitable causes and for health and lifeinsurance payments. But no organization or business enjoys the privilege oftouching workers' paychecks without a court order or worker permission. Exceptunions. Why should unions be free to use employers as their dues collectors?

Lenders can't...

IRS Workers to Rally in Downtown Detroit in Protest of Budget

Cuts (they're union!?)

MLive ^ | 03/30/2011 | Various

Detroit area Internal Revenue Service employees plan to rally in support of federalemployees as well as state workers in Michigan, Wisconsin and elsewhere.National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 78 President Debra Carter plans tolead dozens of IRS employees in a rally at 3 p.m. Wednesday in front of the IRSComputing Center in downtown Detroit. The union local said in a statement thatmembers will let people know that a federal government shutdown or steep budgetcuts will hurt those who rely on government services. The chapter also says stateworkers are facing "unprecedented attacks on their workplace...

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UAW says labor union activists central to protests in East

The US Report ^ | 28 March 2011 | Kay Day

http://www.theusreport.com/the-us-report/2011/3/28/uaw-says-labor-union-activists-central-to-protests-in-east.html

The United Auto Workers said labor unions were central to the

protests in Tunisia, and Egyptian Labor gave the decisive push

in driving Egypts president Hosni Mubarak from office. UAW

made the claims in the union magazine Solidarity*. UAW is

pushing for global organization of workers as part of an

international social justice plan to address globalization. Unions

are essential for social justice, said the magazine. UAW also

claims unions spurred the creation of a middle class in the United

States and world organization is now the goal. The UAW must

act in solidarity with all unions around the world to create a

global middle class.

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http://www.theusreport.com/the-us-report/2011/3/28/uaw-says-labor-union-activists-central-to-protests-in-east.html

The United Auto Workers said labor unions were central to the protests in Tunisia,

and Egyptian Labor gave the decisive push in driving Egypts president Hosni

Mubarak from office. UAW made the claims in the union magazine Solidarity*.

UAW is pushing for global organization of workers as part of an international social

justice plan to address globalization.

Unions are essential for social justice, said the magazine. UAW also claims unions

spurred the creation of a middle class in the United States and world organization isnow the goal. The UAW must act in solidarity with all unions around the world to

create a global middle class.

In the same issue UAW announced the creation of the Global Organizing Institute

(GOI) within the National Organizing Department. The goal of the GOI is to promote

the right to organize as part of the broader goal of creating a global middle class.

Ironically in some countries, particularly in theocracies, the concept of the term

middle class is an unknown entity. Even in the U.S. the term is used broadly as a

political device. Thus far no expert has said conclusively that leaders of the uprisings

will seek what Westerners loosely refer to as democracy.

No one knows whether the union-organized groups will have much influence in

countries where Islamists arguably dominate the most organized groups. Middle

East expert Dr. Walid Phares told Secure Freedom Radio, The region is rising

against the authoritariansthose who are arising are of two species. One, you have

civil society pushing and not so well organizednext to them in smaller numbers but

better organizedMuslim Brotherhood and Islamist jihadiststhats the big picture.

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UAW said the organization is joining other groups around the world via groups like

the International Metalworkers Foundation. UAW is training interns from countries

like Brazil, China, Australia and Germany. The 20-somethings are called

torchbearers of labor.

UAW reasons that jobs are going to countries where lower wages can be paid and

safety can be ignored. This places the U.S. as a disadvantage. Through a mutually

beneficial labor alliance, the GOI seeks to undermine national boundaries

The magazine content was fairly rational except for a politically driven assault on US

conservatives: The right wing in the United States is obsessed with creating a

union-free America. They try to scapegoat union activists and immigrants and gays

and people of colors, hoping to divide us.

Conservatives have largely been concerned over government employee contracts

which mandate that taxpayers fund almost all the costs of pensions, healthcare and

other perks. Ironically law enforcement and firefighter unions often align with

conservatives in elections. A particular cause for concern rests on underfunded

pension programs across the nation.

The Pew Center disclosed a $1 trillion shorfall: "Thats the gap at the end of fiscal

year 2008 between the $2.35 trillion states had set aside to pay for employees

retirement benefits and the $3.35 trillion price tag of those promises."

In the magazine, UAW did not address the issue of womens rights per se.

Nor did UAW address the impact of global organizing in countries where the cost of

living is substantially lower than in the U.S.

UAW is aligned with the Democratic Party policy and platform in the U.S.

Sources and Related Articles

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UAW President Bob King leads Bank of America protest in

downtown Detroit

MLive ^ | 3/25/11 | Jonathan Oosting

After wrapping up the three-day UAW collective bargaining convention at theCobo Center, King and cohorts shut down the Bank of America branch for morethan 30 minutes with chants including "money for schools, not for banks.

Union Organizer Stephen Lerner Defends His Plan To Crash The

Stock Market

Business Insider ^ | 3/25/11 | Dylan Ratigan

Last night, I interviewed the man at the center of a new swirling controversy.Stephen Lerner, a veteran union organizer, wants collective bargaining forhomeowners that owe money to the big banks. And this week, he was caught ontape talking about a "mortgage strike" against the big banks. He suggested that alarge number of homeowners stop paying their mortgage until the banks agree tonegotiate and modify loans. Glenn Beck pounced on the recording. And so didCongress. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican Congressman from Utah, sent a letterto Attorney General Eric Holder saying that Lerner's threats...

CFFR California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibilityhttp://www.californiapensionreform.com/

Reason Foundation http://reason.org/

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/president_stealth_1.html

2.1 million federal workers, 177 received unsatisfactory ratings in 2009, 150 of thosereceived automatic pay raises.

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Federal govt pays on avg 20 percent more than private

Davis-Bacon (prevailing wage law) has raised construction wages on federal projects 22%above market rate.

Executive Order 13522, Creating Labor-Management Forums to Improve Delivery ofGovernment Services was signed in 2009 by Obama

EO 13522 established the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations

EO 13522 gives powers to union bosses to set workplace rules. It requires federal managersto involve union bosses on all matters regardless of whether they are negotiable under thelaw, giving union bosses veto power on workplace issues. All with immunity from theFreedom of Information Act (FOIA).

60 million union dollars to elect Obama. In February 2010, Obama quietly signed

Executive Order 13502 ordering federal agencies to accept only union shop bids forconstruction projects over $25 million.

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For those employers thinking about leaving California, here is a map showing the Right toWork States vs the Forced Union Stateshttp://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/files/2011/02/right-to-work-map.gif

http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/12/class-war22 million California government workers and their families have their vehicle registrationprotected by a shield. This shield often makes it too cumbersome to enforce traffic andparking violations.

In 1999 a California bill was passed called 3 percent at 50. At age of 50, manygovernment employees can retire at 3 percent of their final years salary, multiplied by thenumber of years worked. This makes it possible to retire at 50 with 90 percent of yoursalary.

http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/12/class-war/1California forces a city to get the approval from a union-friendly commission before a citycan go into bankruptcy.

http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/12/class-war/3

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From 1994 to 2004, throughout the United States, government employment grew by 13percent. Judicial and Legal employees increased 28%. Public safety workers grew 21%.Teachers grew 22%.There has been a 9% increase in the population.

California has 6.5 state and local government employees per 100 citizens.

54% of economy is private, 46% is government.

A history of labor unions, an encyclopediahttp://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/LaborUnions.html

The National Institute of Labor Relations Researchhttp://www.nilrr.org/

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/01/public-unions-really-make/Private employees quit their jobs 3.4 times more often than public union employees.

Over 41 percent of state and local public workers are in education.The average public school teachers salary, not counting benefits, is $49,630, 37 percenthigher than private school teacher salaries of $36,250.Public school teachers on the job 2 to 4 years earn 29% more than private teachers.Public school teachers on the job 25 to 29 years earn 49% more than private teachers.

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Adam SummersJune 3, 2010Reason Foundationhttp://reason.org/news/show/fix-california-pension-crisis

Californias public pension and retiree health and dental care expenditures have

quintupled since fiscal year 1998-99, from about $1 billion to $5 billion this year.

Retirement spending is expected to triple again - to $15 billion - within the next decade.

Since 1998, Californias state workforce has grown by 31 percent and taxpayers now

pay for more than 356,000 state workers.

Since 2008, California has added over 13,000 employees to the state payroll during

this recession.

California taxpayers are paying pensions that exceed $100,000 a year to over 12,000former state and local government workers, including more than 9,000 state and local

employees covered by the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS)

and over 3,000 former school administrators or teachers covered under the California

State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS).

In the 1960s, just one out of every 20 California state workers received public safety

pensions. Now, one out of three state workers receives the lavish public safety benefits

originally intended for the firefighters and police officers who put themselves in harms

way.

California taxpayers pay 85 percent of the health care premiums for most active state

workers, 100 percent of the health care costs for most state retirees and 90 percent of

health care costs for their families.

CalPERS reported a loss of $56.2 billion for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2009.

CalSTRS posted a loss of $43.4 billion in 2009. California taxpayers are on the hook for

funding shortfalls not made up by pension fund performance or employee contributions,

so taxpayers will be paying more to make up for these pension investment losses.

The public pension benefit increases passed in 1999 via SB 400, which offered

retroactive benefit increases to government workers, were supposed to cost $650

million in 2010. That figure was based on CalPERSs assessment of its superior return

on system assets. The actual costs of SB 400 to taxpayers: $3.1 billion this fiscal year

and $3.5 billion next year. SB 400 passed by a 70-7 margin in the Assembly, and

unanimously (39-0) in the Senate.

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California is the only state in the nation that uses just one year an employees final

year salary to determine their long-term pension benefits. Most states use three- or

five-year periods to determine pension benefits, making their systems less susceptible

to pension spiking.

SB 2465, which implemented the one-year final salary rule in 1990, has cost taxpayers

more than $100 million a year. It was supposed to cost only $63 million per year.

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Union:International Brotherhood of Electrical WorkersMembership: 685,000Assets: $482 millionIBEW represents electricians, linemen and other public utility employees, along with somecomputer, telecommunications and broadcasting workers. Sixteen of the IBEWs officers

and employees in Washington earned more than $200,000 in 2009. Edwin D. Hill, theunion president since 2001, received $375,767 in pay and benefits. Hill and other topofficials received salary increases averaging at least 4 percent each in the past severalyears, even as membership declined by 5 percent. Membership peaked at about 1 million in1972. The IBEW says a chief reason for the decline was a loss of union jobs when the BellSystem was broken up and deregulation of the utility industry.

Union:International Association of Machinists and Aerospace WorkersMembership: 613,000Assets: $147 millionIAM, which grew out of a secret meeting of 19 machinists in a Georgia rail yard in 1888,

represents machinists and aerospace workers in over 200 industries. At the unionsMaryland headquarters near Washington, 34 officers and employees earn over $200,000 insalary and benefits. Robert Buffenbarger, who became president in 1997, received$284,975. Over the past two years, the IAM donated $1.98 million to Democraticcandidates and $34,000 to Republicans. Popularly known as the machinists union, IAM isaffiliated with the AFL-CIO. Its membership jumped in the 1950s and 1960s with thegrowth of the airlines and aerospace industries. More than 1 million belonged to the unionin 1968. In the early 1970s, membership began declining, a change the union blames onlayoffs in the defense industry.

Union:United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of

AmericaMembership: 538,000Assets: $1.2 billionThe UAW, founded in 1935 by automobile plant workers, currently represents workers atGeneral Motors, Ford and Chrysler, along with workers in the aerospace and agricultureindustries. None of the officers or employees at the UAW headquarters in Detroit earn over$200,000 a year. Ronald Gettelfinger, who resigned as UAW president in 2010, was paid$173,065 in salary and benefits. Elected to replace Gettelfinger was Bob King, a bargainingmember at Fords plant in Dearborn, Mich. Over the past two years, the UAW donatedmore than $1.6 million to political candidates, and all but $3,000 went to Democrats. Unionmembership hit 1.5 million in the late 1970s, but a decline in the U.S. auto industry andopening of non-union plants in the South took its toll on membership. The UAWs successover the years at negotiating higher pay and benefits, including one of the wealthiestpension and health plans for retired autoworkers, was blamed by domestic automakers andconservatives in Congress for the industrys crisis in 2008 and 2009.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2687147/posts

The numbers are not in their favor, and We the People are tired of their terrorist tactics.

Public Union Membership in Numbers

~ By: Larry Walker, Jr. ~

In terms of raw numbers, local government union members stand to be crushed, or perhapsjust eaten. There are roughly 14 million unemployed Americans who would love to havelocal government service jobs, minus collective bargaining. Perhaps the media should pollthe unemployed. The bottom line is that its better to be gainfully employed thanunemployed. Advice to local government employed union members: Work with your duly

elected government officials, or kiss your jobs goodbye .

Out of 124 million Americans who are still employed (excluding the incorporated self-employed), only 14.7 million (or 11.9%) are members of unions.

Out of the 14.7 million union members, 7.6 million (or a majority of 51.8%) aregovernment employees.

Out of the 7.6 million government employees who are members of unions, 4.7 million (or amajority of 61.3%) are local government employees, while 1.9 million (or 25.8%) are stategovernment employees.

Out of 124 million Americans who are still employed (excluding the incorporated self-employed), only 4.7 million (or just 3.8%) are local government employed union members.

In terms of numbers, local government employed union members, those who arecomplaining the most, only represent 3.8% of all American workers (excluding theincorporated self-employed), 3.0% of the roughly 151 million American taxpayers, and1.5% of the total population. We believe there is more empathy among Americans for the9.0% of the labor force who are unemployed, and the millions more who havedropped outof the workforce , than there is for local government employed union members. In otherwords, the pink slips are in the mail.

Related:Union Label : Owned by China &Liberty VS Union Power

Reference: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics -

Table 3. Union affiliation of employed wage and salary workers by occupation andindustry (Jan. 21, 2011 Report)

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2694331/postsA Report From the Front: SEIU Tactics Against Chase

This did not make the news, but it fits in with other stories that at least were barely reportedon. I will tell it as I was told it.

I was at my local branch of Chase today making some transactions. I have a number ofaccounts, and therefore know a few of the folks there. I asked the teller in passing if theyhad heard the news about SEIUs Stephen Lerners plan for an orchestrated union andcommunity organizer action against Chase in May, with the hopes of precipitating a

financial meltdown and national anarchy. Several other tellers also heard my question, andthey all said that they had not heard about it, but that they they had undergone an attackor protest by SEIU at their branch last Friday.

I later went to talk to one of the senior persons about another matter, and she asked what Iwas talking with the tellers about that created so much discussion. When I told her, shegave the details of the SEIU action. A week ago she received a call from a person towarn her that SEIU would be showing up to force their way into the branch and get themanager the next day, in protest for Chase supposedly not paying their Washington StateB&O tax (Business & Occupancy). The caller told the senior person the time they wouldshow up, and that there would be similar actions at Chase branches throughout the county

and some surrounding towns. The caller stated that they would charge in and occupy thebranch, and that they planned to have to be dragged out by police.

The next day (last Friday) van-loads of what she described as really despicable people -like a crowd on a Jerry Springer Show, wearing purple, logod SEIU shirts, and carryingcrudely made signs, assembled outside and made a rush for the front door. It had just beenlocked, fortunately, by a security guard they had called in, just in case the warning from theday before was real. Several of the protesters tried to force their way through the door bybreaking it down, but were unsuccessful. They were described by the woman as vicious,and they stayed quite some time screaming angry and intimidating/threatening taunts at thestaff inside, especially at the senior woman who was photographing them through the glass

door. Police had been called right away, but never showed.

I did not find out if the protests at other branches ever materialized. When I asked if itwas ever reported in the news, I was told it was not. I got the impression, though she nevercame right out and said it definitively, that she suspected there were people there tophotograph the police hauling the protesters out of the bank, but that such possible mediatypes chose not to have the event make the news because it didnt go the way they werehoping.

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Anyone else hear of such tactics elsewhere?

Gov. Walker's Legislation has Unions Caving Already

Townhall.com ^ | March 2011 | Kyle Olson

Apparently Gov. Scott Walker knew exactly what he was doing. Before he signedthe bill limiting collective bargaining privileges, teachers unions throughout thestate were slow to respond to calls for salary and benefit concessions. Theybelieved their members should be held harmless during a period of necessary cost-cutting. They didn't seem to care that Wisconsin schools were operating with multi-million dollar deficits that were forcing the layoffs of younger teachers and thecancellation of student programs. Their only answer was to raise taxes at a timewhen few people could afford it. They didnt want to sacrifice anything, despite...

Editorial: Union Thuggery Run Amok

IBD Editorials ^ | March 24, 2011 | Staff

Big Labor: Having lost its war on economics, the SEIU has declared war on the

economy. Literally. One of its top minds was caught vowing to crash the stockmarket to redistribute wealth. Is this a union or a subversive group? Six years ago,after breaking from the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union washailed as a new kind of organization, whose dynamic leader Andy Stern wouldmake labor strong again. His union vowed to increase its "political muscle topressure entrenched politicians who didn't vote in the interests of their members,"wrote Matt Bai in his 2007 book,...

(Union) Gangs of Wisconsin

Townhall. com ^ | March 19, 2011 | Kyle Olsen

Union leaders can dress it up and use innocuous-sounding phrases like voluntaryconsumer activism, but the bottom line is that Wisconsins unions are nowresorting to thug-like behavior against political opponents, real or imagined. Thestates largest teachers union, Wisconsin Education Association Council, along

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with the Green Bay Education Association, Madison Teachers Inc. and a handful ofother public employee unions are carrying their fight over collective bargaining toinnocent business owners. News accounts reveal that the Fox Valley chapter ofWEAC has e-mailed local businesses, asking them to show their support forcollective bargaining privileges by putting a poster...

Nearly half of Costa Mesa city employees get layoff notices (One

commits suicide)

.latimes.com ^ | 3172011 | Joseph Serna and Mike Anton

Officials aim to contract work out to curb future pension obligations and eventuallyclose a budget gap. A union leader says the city didn't try to negotiate other options.

Workers are shell-shocked, and one dies in an apparent suicide. Costa Mesa hassent layoff notices to nearly half of its employees in a dramatic austerity programbeing closely watched by other cities struggling with ballooning pensionobligations. The move was sharply criticized by union leaders, and it stunned cityemployees, one of whom apparently committed suicide by jumping off Costa MesaCity Hall hours after layoff notices went out Thursday....

Sodexo sues union under federal racketeering statute

Reuters ^ | 3/17/11 | Jeremy Pelofsky and Jeff Roberts

WASHINGTON - The American unit of French catering giant Sodexo SA onThursday filed a civil racketeering lawsuit accusing the Service EmployeesInternational Union of engaging in illegal tactics in its efforts to unionize workers.The company levied numerous charges accusing the union of threats concerningemployees and company property, engaging in illegal tactics to steer business awayfrom Sodexo and attempting to publicly tarnish its reputation. The lawsuit is thelatest twist in a fight over a bid by SEIU to represent some of the 80,000 ofSodexo's hourly employees who are not union members

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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka signaled late Thursday that hes content with

the statements and positions President Obama has made over the union fight in

Wisconsin.

Trumka said that in addition to opposing the bill in Wisconsin that would takeaway unions rights, Obama made comments that were very, very helpful.

First, he called what was going on in Wisconsin the attack on working people,

Trumka said on MSNBC. And then he met with the Republican governors and

he said: You're wrong for villainizing public workers. They're our neighbors,

theyre our friends, theyre our nurses, theyre doctors, theyre teacakes. They're

all of our friends you shouldn't do that.

Trumka, the only labor representative on Obamas jobs council, added that this

really isnt about Obama.

This is about those governors that are making war on their employees and trying

to deny them a middle-class lifestyle, he said. Hopefully, there will be more and

more support from politicians, including the president.

Top Six Violent Acts Committed by Unions

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | Jeff Dunetz

Exploiting the battle between the governor and public employees in Wisconsin,frequent White House visitor, AFL-CIO Chief Richard Trumka has been trying toresuscitate a critically ill labor movement by setting up the entire conservativemovement as the enemy. Trumka argues that the $14+ trillion dollar deficit is nobig deal and that the GOP is trying to take money away from the middle class, onlygive it to those rich Wall Street CEOs. As Trumkas participation in the publicworkers union protests grew, so did the number of incidents of union violence andthuggery associated with them. This...

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STRONG SUPPORT For WI Governor Scott Walker in Latest Pol

Gateway Pundit ^ | 03/11/2011 | Jim Hoft

The Free Enterprise Nation (FEN) today released the results of a national poll thatshows strong support for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker among Independentvoters. The poll of voters outside of Wisconsin, taken from March 3rd to March9th, included 500 Democrat, 500 Republican and 500 Independent voters. FENspokesman, Jim MacDougald stated that This poll contradicts some of the otherpolls weve seen. According to our poll, 95% of Republicans agree with theGovernor, and 92% of Democrats agree with the union. There is not much of asurprise there. But 66% of Independent voters agree with the Governor,...

Scathing report faults CalPERS, former chief executive on

Villalobos payments

Los Angeles Times ^ | 3/14/11 | Marc Lifsher and Stuart Pfeifer

In a scathing report, a former chief executive of the California public employeepension fund was accused of pressuring subordinates to invest billions of dollars ofpension money with politically connected firms. A 17-month investigation alsofound that Federico Buenrostro Jr. -- along with former pension fund boardmembers Charles Valdes and Kurato Shimada -- strong-armed a benefits firm topay more than $4 million in fees to consultant Alfred J.R. Villalobos, who laterhired Buenrostro. ... The findings of insider dealings at CalPERS could providefresh ammunition to Republican lawmakers here who want Democratic Gov. JerryBrown to convert...

SEIU Organizing Buses to Madison and Sunday Protest of Lincoln-

Reagan Dinner

SEIU Wisconsin State Council ^ | March 9, 2011 | A Voice for the WorkersSolidarity Events

Statewide Solidarity Events EMERGENCY: On Wednesday night the State Senatepassed a version of the budget bill that did not require a quorum. The bill, whichwill strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights, will be voted on bythe State Assembly at 11am on Thursday. We need you in Madison NOW. Protest

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the bill and show our Representatives that this attack on working families will NOTbe tolerated. Thursday 9am - Rally at the Capitol ***Statewide events at 9amThursday. Find whats happening in your area below.*** Find your senate district:http://legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/waml/waml.aspx Free bus information:http://www.wiafscme.org/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=fd9884e9-33e6-

4219-9f2a-ef60cea9eb9f Canvassing/Phone Banks...

Meet the three most powerful Big Labor bosses you never heard of

Washington Examiner ^ | 3/03/11 | Ron Arnold

On Election Day last year, Big Labor's bosses were aghast at spending some $200million on political campaigns only to see voters elect a Tea Party inspired GOPmajority, toss out the Democrats' supermajority in the Senate, and elect a wave ofnew Republican governors across the country. That's a lot of money to come out ofdonations from Big Labor's 14.7 million members - with some of it allegedly takenfrom their dues, which is illegal, and some rumored to come off-the-books fromundocumented workers. Most of Big Labor's political campaign money comes frompayroll deductions and checkoff donations...

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DETROIT (AP) -- The state of Michigan will stop deducting union dues from thousands of

people who provide child care at home, an official announced Tuesday, ending an

arrangement created under a previous governor that sparked lawsuits over whether

mandatory membership violates free speech rights.

Under the policy change, the 16,500 providers would keep millions of dollars in union dues

that had gone to United Auto Workers and the American Federation of State, County and

Municipal Employees. The providers, none of whom are on the state payroll, receivegovernment subsidies for watching children from low-income families.

Michigan Forces(home-based and self-employed) Business Owners

Into Public Sector Unions

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Wall Street Journal ^| DECEMBER 25, 2009 | PATRICK J. WRIGHT ANDMICHAEL D. JAHR

After hemorrhaging members for decades, labor unions have hit upon a new way toshore up their annual dues revenue. Michelle Berry runs a private day-care service

from her home on the outskirts of this city, the birthplace of General Motors. Herclients are mostly low-income parents who need child care to keep their jobs in acity that now has a 26% unemployment rate. Ms. Berry owns her own businessyet the Michigan Department of Human Services claims she is a governmentemployee and union member. The agency thus withholds union dues from thechild-care subsidies it sends to her...

Union Political Donations to each of the FleeBagger 14 State

Senators

jsonline ^ | 02/28/2011 | p

The 14 Wisconsin Democratic senators who fled to Illinois share more than justpolitical sympathy with the public employees and unions targeted by Gov. ScottWalker's budget-repair bill. The Senate Democrats count on those in the publicsector as a key funding source for their campaigns. In fact, one out of every fivedollars raised by those Democratic senators in the past two election cycles camefrom public employees, such as teachers and firefighters, and their unions, a JournalSentinel analysis of campaign records shows. "It's very simple," said Richard

Abelson, executive director of District Council 48 of the American...

United Federation of Teachers fires employee for trying to organize

a union

New York Post | August 13, 2010 | TOM TOPOUSIS

In a move of stunning hypocrisy, the United Federation of Teachers axed one of itslongtime employees -- for trying to unionize the powerful labor organization's ownworkers... "I was fired for trying to start a union at the UFT," said a dumbfoundedCallaghan, who worked for the union's newsletter and as a speechwriter for unionleaders for the past 13 years. "This is the exact antithesis of what they preach... "Callaghan fumed. Callaghan said he's planning to file a complaint with the NationalLabor Relations Board against the UFT for illegally blocking his unionizing effort..."They gave me...

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Feds to let airport screeners gain union rights

OneNewsNow ^ | FEBRUARY 4, 2011 | Chris Woodward

A union leader says the government has decided to grant collective bargainingrights to the nation's 40,000 airport screeners... Republican opponents say thatcould jeopardize national security. James Sherk, a labor expert at The HeritageFoundation, calls the decision a huge loss for airline security and passengers. Hesays there is a reason that most national security agencies by law do not haveunions -- and that is because the union contracts make it more difficult for them todo their jobs. "Canada has a system where they allow their security screeners tounionize -- and they've had problems where,...

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I know most people dont go to the provided links and it is too long to transcribe, so here isa breakdown:

Andrew Stern

SEIU is the largest union and fastest growing in the WORLD, not just the U.S.They control the government and corporations throughout the WORLD.They want to represent every man, woman and child in our country.He admits to using activists to force his policies.He wants to turn our country into a Democratic country, just like what is happening in themid-East.This was posted in April 2008. He is touting forced healthcare even then.He says he will rebalance the power of big corporations and employees in the Free ChoiceAct.He will give citizenship to every illegal in our country.He wants to turn our country into a multi-lingual country.10% of his people, 200,000 will be the leaders of change, to change America.The gap between the rich and the rest of us is growing far too wide.

We are in a moment where we can change America.We are going to have to take our SEIU effort to a new level.We are going to put $10 million dollars into a bank account to combat politicians that defyus.We are on the verge of changing our country.

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These are listed on Andrew Breitbarts BigGovernmenthttp://biggovernment.com/laborunionreport/2011/01/31/workers-of-the-world-unite-the-american-lefts-role-in-leading-mid-east-regime-change/

Huffington Post:Though the movement appears to be a mix of grassroots spontaneity and targeted directactions, it has achieved political valence through the savvy of organized labor activists

Al Jazeerathe popular Tunisian uprising was immediately supported by all the opposition groups,from the Islamists to the Communists, as well as by the labour unions,

AFL-CIOThe global union movement is reaffirming its strong support for the General TunisianWorkers Union (UGTT) and the Tunisian people in their courageous struggle for equality,

social justice, political freedom and democracy

Washington Postthe massive protests in Egypt were inspired by and a direct result of recent events inTunisia.

#2979

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/23/teachers-rights-muzzled-in-union-debate/?page=1

The Wisconsin Education Association Council(WEAC) agreed that its 98,000 memberswill pay more for health care and pensions - as long as bargaining and forced dues arepreserved. That certainly calls into question what the WEAC is really protecting - itsmembers or its source of income. In fact, it will fight to the end to preserve the holy grail ofunionism - forced dues.

Forced dues are serious money for the teachers unions. According to data compiled by theNational Institute for Labor Relations Research in 2008, the two teachers unions - theNational Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) -

collected $2 billion in union dues in 2007 through their state affiliates. Out of that $2billion, $1.3 billion came from states that allow forced dues.

Twenty-two states have labor laws similar to Wisconsins. In 2007, those 23 statesemployed 52 percent of the nations teachers but were the source of the vast majority of allthe money collected by theNEA and AFT. Not surprisingly, union dues are much higher instates that have forced unionism - sometimes twice as high as in states where teachers havethe option not to pay the union. In Wisconsin, teachers pay more than $800 per year.

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The fact is that the unions are fighting to protect themselves and their income, not theirmembership. While the teachers unions claim to be pro-teacher, what could be moredemocratic than allowing each person to decide if she or he wants to be a member of thatunion? By teachers choosing union membership, the union truly would be morerepresentative of its membership, but of course, it would collect far fewer dollars for the

union itself.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/24/us-idaho-teachers-idUSTRE71N7A220110224

By a 20-15 vote, the Idaho Senate on Thursday approvedlegislation that curtails collective bargaining by public schoolteachers.

The measure restricts collective bargaining to salaries and benefits, removing fromnegotiations such provisions as class sizes, teacher workload and promotions.

Crafted by the state's schools chief and endorsed by the legislature's Republican leaders andGovernor Butch Otter, the bill bans collective bargaining unless the teachers union could proveit represented more than 50 percent of educators in a school district.

The legislation now heads to the House, where passage is expected.

The measure also eliminates seniority as a factor in teacher layoffs and replaces tenure forsome current, and all future teachers with one- or two-year contracts.

Sen. John Goedde, head of the senate's education panel, on Thursday said the legislation was

about restoring local control since it gives school boards and administrators more flexibility tohire and fire teachers.

"This bill isn't about collective bargaining; it's about putting students first," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/24/rhode.island.teachers.fired/

The firing of every teacher in the Providence public school system has set off a wave of

anxiety, anger and uncertainty in the Rhode Island city, with a union leader blasting the

mayor's decision as anti-union maneuvering along the lines of what's happening in theMidwest.

Mayor Angel Tavares said in a online message Wednesday that he authorized the previous

day's move to dismiss almost 2,000 teachers and staff to allow for greater flexibility once the

budget process is complete. Tavares also said the final number of layoffs needed to balance a

multimillion budget deficit will be determined later.

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Andrew Stern, former SEIU presidenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzG0xpkjWrA

And we are beginning we have offices now in Australiaand Switzerland and London, in South America, in Africa.We have been working with unions around the world andwhat were working towards is building a globalorganization because workers of the world unite is notjust a slogan anymore, it is the way we have to do ourwork.

We are trying to use the powers of persuasion, and if thatdoesnt work, then well use the persuasion of powerbecause there are governments and there are opportunitiesto change laws that affect these countries. Im not naive,were ready to strike.

There are opportunities in America to share better in the

wealth, the rebalance of power and unions and government are

part of the solution.

Andrew Stern, Changing our countries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlXwV_QNrE&feature=related

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=564112&p=2

Wisconsin faces a $3.6 billion budget shortfall over the next two years.

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker wants the union workers to contribute more to theirpension and healthcare.

As of now, they pay a fifth of a penny on a dollar of wages to their pensions and one-fourthwhat private-sector workers pay for health insurance.

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With just the two major teacher unions collecting two billion dollars a year in dues, it iseasy to see that unions have plenty of money to back their chosen politician, someone thatwill work with them, typically, 95% of the time, a Democrat.

By working with them, they mean featherbedding, a practice of hiring more union peoplethan what are needed. It means growing governments, projects, importing governmentdependent illiterates.

A discrete way of working with the unions has been to offer retirement benefits that areway out of line, under funded and unfunded and backed by the government. In that way,the costs have always been hidden from the present politician as they are collected yearsafter the politician has moved on, pushing the responsibility onto his successors.

Now that many people are reaching retirement age, they are ready to collect on thosepromises and those retirement costs are forcing our governments to use creative accounting

methods and budgets.

The politician that was given his job by the unions will do everything in his power to keepthe money flowing to the unions. He will resist any cutbacks our layoffs. He will look forways to raise taxes, fees and fines.

The greed of unionshttp://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/michigan-orders-dps-to-cuts-costs-close-schools-20110221-mr

To slash the $327 million deficit, Detroit has to reduce another 60 to 70 schools, half theschools. Putting 60 students in the classrooms.

59 schools, of the schools have already been closed.

Thousands Rally Under Capitol Dome In Olympia(WashingtonState)

KIROTV ^ | February 21, 2011 | KIROTV

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Union members, students, parents and even formerpresidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich rallied in Olympia on Monday, taking

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advantage of the holiday to lobby against budget cuts and to show solidarity withWisconsin's embattled union for state employees. The Washington State Patrolestimated that 2,000 people rallied under the Capitol Dome, said KIRO 7Eyewitness News Senior Political reporter Essex Porter.Washington stateemployees chanted, sang songs and waved signs in the Capitol Rotunda in a rally

supporting unions and state employees in Wisconsin. Ohio DemocraticCongressman Dennis Kucinich addressed the group wearing a union T-shirt fromthe...

GOP Bill Takes Aim at Pension Disclosures

WSJ ^ | FEBRUARY 22, 2011 | SARA MURRAY

Legislation being pushed by House Republicans could require many states todisclose larger shortfalls in their pension plans and force them to take moreaggressive steps to get their finances in order. The Public Employee PensionTransparency Act, introduced by Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) earlier this month,would compel states and municipalities to meet stringent standards for reporting onthe finances of employee-pension funds, and would expressly ban any federalbailouts. Opponents view it as another congressional Republican swing at public-employee unions, which have come under fire as federal and state governmentsseek to tame budget deficits. Republican governors...

Columbus Takes Center Stage in Next Big Union Fight

fox news ^| 2/21//11 | Lee Ross

The next focus of demonstrators protesting collective bargaining reforms should beColumbus, Ohio where thousands, if not tens-of-thousands, of protestors areexpected to gather Tuesday and shout their views about a controversial bill that putslabor unions in the crosshairs of a determined governor intent on salvaging hisstate's financial situation. The protests should look and sound much like the ones

from Madison, Wisconsin that have gripped the nation in the recent days andmarries an uncomfortable economic reality with political opportunity. "It's to putour children first. It's to do the things without regard to political considerations andtry...

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2677523/posts

Wisconsin Public Employee Numbers (Rush was WAY Low!)

According to the US Dept of Commerce, Wisconsin had 214,506 "full time equivalent"

state and local government employees in 2009. In July 2009, the estimated population ofWisconsin was 5,654,774, according to data I found. This is 3.79% of the population. (Anddown for some reason down from over five percent in 2007 according to previous Censusdata I have retrieved, so I wonder if maybe, the books are being cooked. My data had thesepercentages from 2001-2007: 5.33, 5.30, 5.26, 5.21, 5.30, 5.17, 5.04. These are all fromCensus data I have downloaded and retained.)

I think I heard Rush say that one out of every 197 (or 297?) Wisconsin residents workedfor the government. This number is WAY LOW. (And if I heard incorrectly, I apologizeRush.) It is at least one out of every 30, and it is probably closer to one out of 20.

My numbers here do not include Wisconsin residents who work for the FederalGovernment or who work as contractors for any government. (Certainly there must besome!)

It also does not include retired State workers who are now being supported by taxpayers.

BTW, Wisconsin is fairly typical regarding the percentage of its citizens who work for theState or local government.

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/you_pay_the_price_hNooJsBk9MtO67HvinglHP

EXCLUSIVE

Taxpayers kick in an average $8.60 for every dollar that city employees contribute to theirpensions, a sweet deal costing the Big Apple a bundle.

Even though their own retirements are less secure, as private businesses have shifted fromtraditional pensions to riskier savings plans like 401(k)s, taxpayers' support for rock-solidpublic employee pension plans is growing. That's because pension funds are guaranteed togrow 8 percent a year -- and taxpayers have to make up the difference if they don't.

Taxpayers' share of city pension costs has skyrocketed more than 900 percent in the lastdecade -- from $703.1 million in 2000 to $6.5 billion in 2009, according to the citycomptroller's annual reports.

Read more:http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/you_pay_the_price_hNooJsBk9MtO67HvinglHP#ixzz1EdETVnbW

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http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/21/impeachable-offenses-has-obama-crossed-the-line/

And so it begins. As Islamist insurrections erupt across the world, President Obama incitesa battle at home between producers and parasites that his union supporters parallel with thestruggle of the Egyptian people. Interjecting himself into the sovereign matters of stategovernments Obama moved to directly violate the expressed will of the WisconsinPeople by actively mobilizing his political organization to affect contractual relationshipsbetween the state and its employees, and supporting the shut down of the Wisconsin stategovernment - a direct violation of his oath ofoffice. Ignited by Wisconsin GovernorScott Walkers proposal to limit public sector collective bargaining rights for benefits byrequiring union members to contribute 12.6% of their income towards their healthcareplans and 5.8% towards their pension, DNC Chairman Timothy M. Kaine worked in closecoordination with President Obamas political apparatus, Organizing for America (OFA),

and state & national union leaders to rally public sector employees to protest at statecapitals across the nation this month (here, here, here,here and here.)

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/government_worker_unions_the_l.html

The "Madison Uprising" is the beginning of the end of the incestuous relationship betweengovernment and the unions. That fact has been recognized by the public sector unions andthe Democratic Party and is why they have pulled out all the stops and reverted to their

1960's playbook in order to maintain the status quo. However, it is a battle that the unionsand the Democratic Party will lose regardless of the immediate outcome in Wisconsin.

The Democratic Party has sold its soul to the public sector unions. In the 2010 mid-termelection, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees poured over$87 million dollars into the election. (A new spending record). AFSCME's $87 millionwas greater than the campaign spending by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ($75 million)and American Crossroads ($65 million). Otherpublic sector unions also ratcheted up theirspending such as SEIU ($44 million) and the National Education Association ($40million).

The three major public sector unions spent over $171 million in the 2010 election plus anestimated $250 million equivalent value of so-called volunteer activity such as get out thevote efforts, door-to-door campaigning and poll watching.

There is nothing wrong with private people or organizations, including private unions,spending money on political campaigns as institutional sources are disclosed. However,AFSCME, the NEA, the AFT (American Federation of Teachers) or the public union sectorof SEIU are government employees. Their salaries are paid by the taxpayers and a portionof their salaries go to union dues which are slush funds for political activity and thepromotion of left-wing causes. In 2008 the NEA and the AFT made contributions andgrants totaling over $96 million of union dues; all to liberal organizations irrespective ofthe desires of the rank and file or the taxpayer.

It is wholly inappropriate for public employees to spend dues money on politicalcontributions. Public officials are chosen through popular elections and the governmentemployee should be indifferent as to the outcome of the election. However, by maintainingsuch a heavy hand in not only monetary contributions but election activity the politicianbecomes too dependent upon the union largess and is essentially blackmailed intoacquiescing to all the demands of the union, particularly pay and benefits which have sky-rocketed and are now unsustainable.

President Franklin Roosevelt, the Progressive icon, recognized this problem back in 1937.In a letter to Luther Steward, then President of the National Federation of Federal

Employees, he wrote that "meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationshipsand obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government". He went onto say that government employees should not have bargaining rights or a closed shopsimilar to private sector unions.

However, since the public sector unions were granted those rights beginning in the 1960'sthey have achieved the virtual ownership, together with the private sector unions, of theDemocratic Party. In the 2010 election cycle, per the Center for Responsive Politics,

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AFSCME donated 99.5% of contributions to Democrats; The NEA donated 96% and theAFT, 99.7%.

These dues were funneled to Democratic candidates who promised to raise workers salariesand hire more public sector workers-even though statistics show that total compensation for

federal and state workers is nearly 50% higher than for private sector employees.

Government workers have access to elected officials during negotiations to set wages andbenefits and can hold the promise of campaign contributions over these politicians' headsduring negotiations. There is, in effect, no one representing the taxpayer who is the sourceof all income to the government.

This means runaway compensation for government workers, higher taxes for the generalpublic and higher deficits. The taxes go from the electorate to government paychecks tounion dues-then to more campaign contributions until the state, municipality or the federalgovernment facesbankruptcy.

The clout of this unholy alliance was further on display when the unions were able tosiphon off roughly $160 billion dollars of the 2009 stimulus to save the jobs of state andlocal workers.

The unseemly goings-on in Wisconsin portray, in microcosm, the disastrous policy ofallowing government workers to unionize and bargain for wages and benefits. The unionsare fighting to preserve their source of income and clout (i.e. union due) and the Democratshave shown the world their cowardice and dependence by slinking out if the state in orderto maintain their bought status.

By these actions they have drawn back the curtain for all to see the true nature of this

incestuous relationship and the impact on the future of the country.

It has taken Wisconsin and the near bankruptcy of the country and of many states andmunicipalities to finally awaken the American people to this fraud and theft. They mustdemand that public-sector unions can only be associations that can seek better workplaceconditions or to facilitate employer-employee disputes but cannot have bargaining rights ormandatory dues.

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and local workers except for police, firefighters and the state patrol. [snip] theelection of Walker, an outspoken conservative, last November and the GOP's...

Wisconsin Gov. Says National Guard could Respond to Unrest

WUVM ^ | February 11, 2011 | Ann-Elise Henzl

Gov. Scott Walker says he is confident state workers will continue to show up forwork and do their jobs, despite their potential disappointment in his emergencybudget proposal. However, if there is worker unrest, Walker says the WisconsinNational Guard is prepared to respond. The governor revealed Friday that he wantsthe state Legislature to go into Special Session next week to take up his plan toclose a budget deficit. His plan calls for workers to lose nearly all their collectivebargaining rights. State employees also would be required to pay more for pensionand health care benefits.

Ohio Senate Introduces Bill to Limit Collective Bargaining for

Public Employees

Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | Feb. 9, 2011 | Joe Guillen

The Columbus Dispatch and the Cleveland Plain Dealer report that Ohio lawmakersintroduced a GOP-backed bill yesterday that would eliminate collective bargainingfor all state workers, potentially one of the first major changes to public-sectorunion law in the state in nearly 30 years. Collective bargaining would be abolishedfor state workers and reformed for employees of local governments under theproposed bill, which would also overhaul policy governing teachers' contracts andbenefits, bargaining timelines, layoff procedures, and binding arbitration rules forpolice and firefighters. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and other supporters say the reformswill give state and regional...

EDITORIAL: Union power at TSA--Airport security is

compromised by labor goons

The Washington Times ^ | February 8, 2011 | Editorial

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