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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 left

leaning schools. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewGroups.asp?type=aca-iLeft leaning professors here http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/IndividualDesc.asp?type=aca

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 administration’s 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 SEIU’s 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.”

“If we adopt the Justice for All program, we will finally have a pathway to citizenship for every immigrant in this country”.

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5:08 “Ten percent of our members, nearly two hundred thousand people will be trained asleaders of our union to be the engine of change.”

5:48 “The gap between the rich and the rest of us is growing far too wide. Our candidateBarack Obama has seized on the opportunity of change.”

6:45 “Because if we’re going to win healthcare for every man, woman and child, and theemployee free choice act in the first 100 days after we elect a new president, then we’regoing to have to take this SEIU effort to a new level.”

7:06 “That’s why we are going to put ten million dollars in a bank account, to haveaccountability to every single politician who chooses to defy us on the pledges they madewhen they were running for office.”

8:27 “Its your talent, your skill, your passion, your dedication to help us elect Barack Obama and then win the changes we need for our country.”

9:12 “Many of you came here, not just to take care of our members, but to be a part amovement to change our country. We are on the verge of building that movement for

justice for all, when we are on the verge of changing our country, we all come together andunite, and fight.

And if not us, if not us, then who? And if not now, at this incredible moment of opportunity, an incredible moment of hope,then when?”

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 we’re working towards is building a globalorganization because ‘workers of the world unite’ is not

just a slogan anymore, it is the way we have to do our work.”

“We are trying to use the powers of persuasion, and if thatdoesn’t work, then we’ll use the persuasion of power

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because there are governments and there are opportunitiesto change laws that affect these countries. I’m not naive,we’re ready to strike.”

“There are opportunities in America to share better in thewealth, the rebalance of power and unions and government arepart of the solution.”

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

• 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 PrialPublished 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. “It’s just another union handout by the

Obama 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 EmployeesInternational 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 public

protest and organization similar to the massive show of pro-labor support thatoverran Madison, Wis., last month. The SEIU’s ambitious effort is a dramaticdeparture from its straightforward approach to the 2008 campaign. That year, the

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union 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 Bravender April 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 hunker down. “With the freeze on Federal employees salaries for at least two years and therising cost of necessities, we are...

• 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, have begun 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 from

paychecks at workers' direction for charitable causes and for health and lifeinsurance payments. But no organization or business enjoys the privilege of touching workers' paychecks without a court order or worker permission. Except

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unions. 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 BudgetCuts (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 IRS

Computing 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...

• 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 theprotests” in Tunisia, and “Egyptian Labor gave the decisive push”in driving Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak from office. UAWmade the claims in the union magazine Solidarity*. UAW ispushing for global organization of workers as part of aninternational social justice plan to address globalization. “Unionsare essential for social justice,” said the magazine. UAW alsoclaims unions spurred the creation of a middle class in the UnitedStates and world organization is now the goal. “The UAW mustact in solidarity with all unions around the world to create aglobal middle class.”

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

and “Egyptian Labor gave the decisive push” in driving Egypt’s 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 authoritarians—those who are arising are of two species. One, you have

civil society pushing and not so well organized…next to them in smaller numbers but

better organized—Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist jihadists…that’s 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 : "That’s 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 women’s 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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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 of Government 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 for construction projects over $25 million.

http://www.collinsreport.net/2010/04/17/obamq-sneaks-a-payoff-to-big-labor-with-an-executive-order-media-ignored/

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-war 22 million California government workers and their families have their vehicle registration

protected by a shield. This shield often makes it too cumbersome to enforce traffic and parking 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 year’s salary, multiplied by thenumber of years worked. This makes it possible to retire at 50 with 90 percent of your salary.

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.

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From 1994 to 2004, throughout the United States, government employment grew by 13 percent. 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 Research http://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 teacher’s 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

• California’s 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, California’s 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 harm’s

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 CalPERS’s 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 employee’s 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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california_pension_crisis_reform_studyThe state employees more than 356,000 workersFrom June 2008 to February 2009, the state added 2,000 workersUnfunded Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) such as health and dental liability is$52 billion.

State pays 85% of health premiums for active state employees, 100% for retirees and 90%for families.SB 400 passed by a 70-7 margin in the Assembly and unanimously 39-0 in the Senate in1999. It increased benefits between 20 and 50 percent. The benefit increases wereretroactive.SB 400 eliminated the two-tier system for non-safety/industrial employees.

2/28/11http://capoliticalnews.com/blog_post/show/7862the new Hoover commission report said the 10 largest California public pensionsystems, with 90 percent of all members and assets, reported a combined shortfalllast year of $240 billion.snipAfter the stock market crash punched a big hole in their CalPERS investmentfunds, a new report says 26 local government agencies reduced pension benefits— but nearly 200 cities, counties and fire and water districts increased pensionbenefits.snipThe giant California Public Employees Retirement System covers state workers,non-teaching school employees, and more than 1,500 cities, counties and specialdistricts, which have roughly half of the non-federal government employees in thestate.

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http://nation.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/03/fat-cat-union-salaries-exposed

These are the 10 largest unions, noting the number of employees who earn more than$200,000, leadership salaries and campaign contributions to federal candidates in 2009-

2010.

Union: National Education AssociationMembership: 3.2 millionAssets: $216 millionThe NEA, representing most of the nation’s teachers, has 31 headquarters officers andemployees who earn over $200,000. The president, Dennis Van Roekel, received $397,721in salary and benefits. Of the $3.7 million NEA spent on political activities in the lastelection cycle, 98 percent went to Democratic candidates. The NEA has 98,000 members inWisconsin. Before taking the helm in 2008, Van Roekel received pay increases averagingmore than 4 percent a year as NEA vice president. In 2009, public school teachers were

paid a national average of $54,319 and received raises ranging from 2 percent to 4 percentover the previous five years.

Union: Service Employees International UnionMembership: 1.8 millionAssets: $187 millionThe SEIU, whose membership has increased in recent years, has been organizing hospital,home care and nursing home workers, along with local and state government employees,

janitors and security officers. The union has nine headquarters officers and employees whoearn over $200,000. The former president, Andy Stern, was paid $306,388 in salary and

benefits from the union in 2009. In his final year, Stern got a 5 percent pay boost, which

came on the heels of the union growing by more than 88,000 members. Stern resigned in2010 and was replaced by Mary Kay Henry, formerly the executive vice president. Over the past two years, SEIU gave almost $2 million to Democratic candidates and $8,500 toRepublicans. It has 18,000 members in Wisconsin.

Union: United Food & Commercial WorkersMembership: 1.3 millionAssets: $157 millionThe UFCW, whose members work in meatpacking, food processing and retail grocerystores, has 17 headquarters officers and employees who earn over $200,000. The president,Joseph T. Hansen, received $360,737 in pay and benefits in 2009. Of the $1.9 million theunion donated to political candidates over the past two years, 99 percent of it went toDemocrats. The union drew criticism from members in 2004 for paying outgoing presidentDouglas Dority $709,000 in salary and benefits and for keeping retired officers on the

payroll with six-figure salaries. At the time, more than 250 UFCW employees across thecountry were being paid more than $100,000.

Union: International Brotherhood of TeamstersMembership: 1.3 million

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Assets: $175 millionThe Teamsters, whose origins date to the horse- and mule-team drivers of the late 1800s,represents truck drivers and a wide array of blue-collar and government workers. Eightheadquarters officers and employees received more than $200,000 in 2009.The president, James P. Hoffa, was paid $362,869 in pay and benefits. Over the past two

years, the Teamsters have donated $2.3 million to Democratic candidates and $46,500 toRepublicans. Racketeering charges were filed against the union in 1989 after a JusticeDepartment investigation that accused the Teamsters of being a “wholly owned subsidiaryof organized crime.” Since 1992, the Teamsters have been overseen by an IndependentReview Board.

Union: American Federation of State, County & Municipal EmployeesMembership: 1.5 millionAssets: $97 millionAFSCME, one of the fastest growing unions in the United States, was founded inWisconsin almost 80 years ago. At union headquarters in Washington, 10 officers and

employees receive more than $200,000 a year. Gerald McEntee, who was first electedunion president in 1981, was paid $479,328 in salary and benefits in 2009. Over the pastdecade, his salary has increased at almost 4 percent a year. Over the past two years,AFSCME has donated $2.3 million to Democratic candidates and $13,000 to Republicans.In the 2010 elections in Wisconsin, AFSCME gave almost $83,888 to Democraticcandidates. Half that amount went to the campaign of Tom Barrett, whose top 10 donorswere unions. Barrett lost to Republican Scott Walker, who promised during the campaignto take on the organized labor if elected.

Union: Laborers' International Union of North AmericaMembership: 633,000

Assets: $134 millionThe Laborers represent mostly construction workers in 500 locals in the U.S. Theheadquarters in Washington has 18 officers and employees who earn more than $200,000 ayear, including 11 who earn more than $300,000. Terence O’Sullivan, union presidentsince 2000, received $618,000 in salary and benefits in 2009. Of the $1.7 million donatedto political candidates over the past two years, 95 percent went to Democrats. In 2006, theLaborers broke from the AFL-CIO to join a new, rival labor federation. In 2010, theLaborers rejoined the AFL-CIO.

Union: American Federation of TeachersMembership: 887,000Assets: $115 millionAFT is the smaller of the two teacher unions and also represents school support staff,higher education faculty and staff, health care professionals and state and municipalemployees. At AFT’s headquarters in Washington, nine officers and employees earn morethan $200,000 a year. Randi Weingarten, who was elected president in 2008, received$428,284 in salary and benefits. Of the $2.4 million donated to political candidates in the

past two years, the union gave all but $10,000 to Democrats. In 1998, a proposal to mergethe AFT and the much larger NEA was rejected by NEA members.

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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/you-will-die-read-the-shocking-e-mail-sent-to-wis-gop-senators/

The following is a shocking, scary e-mail sent to Wisconsin GOP senators last night ataround 9:30 pm, shortly after the Senate passed an anti-union bill. Not only does the e-mailthreaten the senators with death, but it also vows “your families [sic] will also be killed dueto your actions in the last 8 weeks.”

Local station WTMJ in Milwaukee obtained the e-mail , and has redacted the sender’s name pending an investigation by the police (emphasis added and spelling and grammar mistakeshave not been corrected):

From: XXXXSent: Wed 3/9/2011 9:18 PMTo: Sen.Kapanke; Sen.Darling; Sen.Cowles; Sen.Ellis; Sen.Fitzgerald; Sen.Galloway;Sen.Grothman; Sen.Harsdorf; Sen.Hopper; Sen.Kedzie; Sen.Lasee; Sen.Lazich;Sen.Leibham; Sen.Moulton; Sen.OlsenSubject: Atten: Death threat!!!! Bomb!!!!

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your famileswill also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explainto them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then itwill save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficitthat you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below formore information on possible scenarios in which you will die.

WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and inthe past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with mehave decided that we’ve had enough. We feel that you and the people thatsupport the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealingwith your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not standfor it any longer. So, this is how it’s going to happen: I as well as manyothers know where you and your family live, it’s a matter of public records.We have all planned to assault you by arriving at your house and putting anice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn’t leaveit there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send themessage to you since you are so “high” on Koch and have decided that you are

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now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of ademocratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placedin various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent.This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won’ttell you all of them because that’s just no fun. Since we know that you are

not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decidedto make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it’snecessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, makingthem unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their familiesand themselves then We Will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you. Pleaseunderstand that this does not include the heroic Rep. Senator that riskedeverything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do. We feelthat it’s worth our lives to do this, because we would be saving the livesof 300,000 people. Please make your peace with God as soon as possible andsay goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!

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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 perhaps just 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 it’s 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 have dropped outof the workforce , than there is for local government employed union members. In other words, 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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Table 3. Union affiliation of employed wage and salary workers by occupation andindustry (Historical Data)

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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 of accounts, and therefore know a few of the folks there. I asked the teller in passing if theyhad heard the news about SEIU’s Stephen Lerner’s 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 “attack”or “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 to“warn” 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 State“B&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” the branch, 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, logo’d 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 by

breaking 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 never came right out and said it definitively, that she suspected there were people there to

photograph 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 didn’t 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. They

believed 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 didn’t 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 theeconomy. Literally. One of its top minds was caught vowing to crash the stock market 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 to

pressure 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 Wisconsin’s unions are nowresorting to thug-like behavior against political opponents, real or imagined. Thestate’s largest teachers union, Wisconsin Education Association Council, along

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

• Nearly half of Costa Mesa city employees get layoff notices (Onecommits 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 program being 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 of Sodexo's hourly employees who are not union members

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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka signaled late Thursday that he’s content withthe statements and positions President Obama has made over the union fight inWisconsin.

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 andhe said: ‘You're wrong for villainizing public workers. They're our neighbors,they’re our friends, they’re our nurses, they’re doctors, they’re teacakes. They'reall of our friends – you shouldn't do that.’ ”

Trumka, the only labor representative on Obama’s jobs council, added that “thisreally isn’t about Obama.”

“This is about those governors that are making war on their employees and tryingto deny them a middle-class lifestyle,” he said. “Hopefully, there will be more andmore 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 no

big deal and that the GOP is trying to take money away from the middle class, onlygive it to those rich Wall Street CEOs. As Trumka’s 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 other

polls we’ve 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 onVillalobos payments

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

In a scathing report, a former chief executive of the California public employee pension fund was accused of pressuring subordinates to invest billions of dollars of pension 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 to

pay more than $4 million in fees to consultant Alfred J.R. Villalobos, who later hired 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 Senate passed 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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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. Her clients 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 business— yet 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 just political 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 organizea 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,...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlXwV_QNrE&feature=related

I know most people don’t 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 Breitbart’s 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 Jazeera…the 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 Post…the massive protests in Egypt were “inspired by and a direct result of” recent events inTunisia.

#2979http://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 are

preserved. 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 of unionism - forced dues.

Forced dues are serious money for the teachers unions. According to data compiled by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research in 2008, the two teachers unions - the National 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 $2

billion, $1.3 billion came from states that allow forced dues.

Twenty-two states have labor laws similar to Wisconsin’s. In 2007, those 23 statesemployed 52 percent of the nation’s teachers but were the source of the vast majority of allthe money collected by the NEA 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 their membership. 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-idUSTRE71N7A220110224By 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 for some 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 previousday's move to dismiss almost 2,000 teachers and staff to allow for greater flexibility once thebudget process is complete. Tavares also said the final number of layoffs needed to balance amultimillion budget deficit will be determined later.

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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 those promises 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 for ways 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, ¼ 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 former presidential 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 federal

bailouts. 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 onesfrom 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/postsWisconsin 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 of Wisconsin 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 these

percentages 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 their pensions, 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-solid

public 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 relationships

between the state and its employees, and supporting the shut down of the Wisconsin stategovernment - a direct violation of his oath of office . Ignited by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s 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 Obama’s 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). Other public sector unions also ratcheted up their spending 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 sector of 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 the

promotion 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 of the 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 politician

becomes 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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• Scott Walker vs. Public Sector Unions

The Weekly Standard ^ | February 18, 2011 | STEPHEN F. HAYES

When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker looked out the window of his office at theCapitol in Madison Wednesday he saw more than 10,000 people gathered to protesthis decision to require public employees to contribute more to their pensions andhealth care. Walker says he’s not surprised that the proposed changes havegenerated such a ferocious response. “You’re messing with the way people maketheir living,” he said Wednesday in a phone interview with THE WEEKLYSTANDARD. “It’s understandable they’ll be upset.” But Walker is unapologetic.These are difficult times. Wisconsin is facing a budget crisis. And there have to...

• Crowds Descend As Ohio Debates Union Overhaul

AP and NBC4 ^ | 2/17/11

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Crowds of public employees protesting a sweeping Ohio proposal to strip unions of collective bargaining rights are wearing red in an effortto steer public opinion away from the idea that unions are all-Democratorganizations. The move came as union protests by firefighters, teachers, police andstate workers were joined by a smaller number of tea party activists who supportthe legislation. The measure would end collective bargaining and replace negotiatedsalary schedules with merit raises. NBC4's Patrick Preston said there was standingroom only in the Statehouse Thursday morning and there was a line to enter

• Hundreds protest Wis. plan to cut worker rights (7,243 comments toAP story and counting)

Yahoo ^ | February 16, 2011 | SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND,

Thousands of students, teachers and other workers clogged a hearing for hours andcamped out at the Capitol overnight, and so many teachers called in sick that theMadison public school district had to cancel classes Wednesday. While other stateshave proposed bills curtailing labor rights, Wisconsin's measure is the boldest step

by a new Republican governor and Legislature to solve budget problems byconfronting organized labor. It would end collective bargaining for all state, county

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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 for work and do their jobs, despite their potential disappointment in his emergency

budget proposal. However, if there is worker unrest, Walker says the Wisconsin National 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 collective

bargaining rights. State employees also would be required to pay more for pensionand health care benefits.

• Ohio Senate Introduces Bill to Limit Collective Bargaining forPublic 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-sector union law in the state in nearly 30 years. Collective bargaining would be abolishedfor state workers and reformed for employees of local governments under the

proposed bill, which would also overhaul policy governing teachers' contracts and benefits, bargaining timelines, layoff procedures, and binding arbitration rules for police and firefighters. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and other supporters say the reformswill give state and regional...

• EDITORIAL: Union power at TSA--Airport security iscompromised by labor goons

The Washington Times ^ | February 8, 2011 | Editorial

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It’s hard to imagine flying could become any more inconvenient. Last week,however, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) made clear it wascommitted to making its employees even less accountable for their treatment of

passengers. On Friday, TSA Administrator John S. Pistole granted the agency’s63,000 blue latex-gloved employees the right to insulate themselves with protection

from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and NationalTreasury Employees Union (NTEU). Democrats successfully pushed to federalizeairport screening in 2001, always with the goal in mind of augmenting the unionrolls with thousands of dues-paying members. These powerful organizations justhappen...

• Obama uses ‘green’ emissions standards to push truckers into

Teamsters unionDaily Caller ^ | Matt Boyle

President Barack Obama’s administration is using new “environmental standards”to force independent owner-operator truckers into becoming part of theInternational Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union that gave more than $2 million toDemocrats in the last two election cycles. By increasing the number of “green”requirements truckers have to comply with in order to get into some major UnitedStates ports — like Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland — the Obamaadministration and the Environmental Protection Agency are helping push

previously independent truckers into companies, which then makes them vulnerableto unionization or, in many cases, forced to join...

• Feds' Mob Takedown Includes Union Crooks

http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2011/01/26/feds-mob-takedown-includes-union-crooks

There are few things quite like a mass arrest to serve as a reminder of the Mafia'scontinuing presence in American life. The mob roundup last Thursday morning, thelargest in U.S. history, at once underscores the large dent that the JusticeDepartment has been making in organized crime and how entrenched many of their operations have been. Some 800 FBI agents, U.S. marshals, state police and NewYork City cops fanned out and arrested nearly 120 wise guys and associates namedin an 82-page, 16-count indictment for acts of murder, racketeering, money-laundering, loan-sharking, extortion and other offenses...

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• Behind the Numbers: Workers vote with their feet as unionmembership rate drops

Washington Examiner ^ | 1/20/11 | Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Today the Labor Department reported that in 2010 the union membership rate fell by four tenths of a percentage point, from 12.3 percent to 11.9 percent of wage andsalary workers. Both private- and public-sector union membership rates declined.Among private-sector workers, the rate fell from 7.2 percent to 6.9 percent,continuing a long-term trend. Public-sector unionization, declining from 37.4

percent to 36.2 percent, bucked a prior trend of rising government-sector unionmembership. The reasons for the decline are many. Some American workers tire of seeing their union dues used for political contributions and generous compensation

packages for union bosses....

• Top Ten Union Corruption Stories of the Year

http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2011/01/11/top-ten-union-corruption-stories-year

Organized labor, masters of aggressive politics, had its share of triumphs in 2010.With Democrats having taken control of the White House and both houses of Congress in 2009, this was to be expected. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumkaand other union officials used their window of opportunity to pressure Congressinto passing a health care overhaul mandating unprecedented degrees of government intrusion, and by extension, major opportunities for unionization of thehealth care labor force.

• Electrolux layoffs begin (Unions killing another American business)

Omaha World-Herald ^ | January 20, 2011 | N/A

The layoffs have begun at the Electrolux plant here as the plant begins the processof closing down by this spring. United Autoworkers Local 442 Vice President JerryKloberdanz said the company posted the first stage of layoffs Jan. 7. Kloberdanzsaid there are about 500 people working at the plant. Electrolux, which makes

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washing machines and dryers, announced in 2009 that it would close the Webster City plant by the end of March.

• Virginia House backs constitutional amendment to limit unions

Washington Post ^ | 1/18/11 | Fredrick Kunkle

Virginia House backs constitutional amendment to limit unionsBy Fredrick KunklePosted at 6:18 PM ET, 01/18/2011 The House of Delegates on Tuesday approved aresolution that would enshrine Virginia's "right-to-work" law in its constitution,thereby making permanent the state's traditional wariness toward the influence of labor unions. Republicans argued that Virginia's laws against compulsory unionmembership are key to its reputation as a business-friendly state, and that a stateconstitutional amendment reiterating those principles would strengthen its ability tocounter recent pro-labor actions from Washington. The resolution, HJ500,sponsored by Del. Richard Bell (R-Franklin), passed 61-36.

ALBANY -- Gov. Cuomo began marshaling his forces for war with the state'spowerful public-employee unions yesterday as he urged campaign donors toopen their wallets and finance an advertising blitz to back his agenda.

In an urgently worded e-mail, Cuomo's campaign fund, Friends of AndrewCuomo, warned supporters that the governor's effort to close an estimated $10billion budget gap would be doomed if he couldn't counter well-funded oppositionby groups dependent on state funding.

"We cannot allow Gov. Cuomo's positions to be misrepresented by special-interest campaigns," the letter reads. "We must be in a position to defendourselves. Television ads are expensive, and if we can't communicate our caseto the people, we will not win."

Previous governors have seen their poll numbers plummet and have folded after the teachers and public-employee unions and their allies in the health-careindustry attacked budget-cutting plans.

Expecting a fight, Cuomo says he's prepared to drain his campaign fund tofinance a counterattack.

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Whatever Cuomo raises will be bolstered by $10 million pledged by a coalition of business groups calling itself the Committee to Save

Read more:http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/it_ads_up_cuomo_calls_for_cash_to_C0cp0OaxKTfrlJJ3SYDRzJ#ixzz1BLkoE59T

• U.S. Plans to Sue 4 States Over Laws Requiring Secret Ballots forUnionizing

NYT ^ | 01/14/2011 | Steven Greenhouse

The National Labor Relations Board announced on Friday that it planned to sue

Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah in an effort to invalidate recentlyapproved state constitutional amendments that prohibit private sector workers fromchoosing a union through a process known as card check. The labor board assertsthat the amendments conflict with federal laws and are pre-empted by those laws.The state amendments were promoted by various conservative groups concernedthat Congressional Democrats and President Obama would enact legislationallowing unions to insist on using card check,

• Union Boss Trumka Admits Main Goal is Using Unions ToFundamentally Change America NOT members needs

• http://www.theblaze.com/stories/union-boss-trumka-admits-main-goal-is-using-unions-to-fundamentally-change-america-into-his-progressive-vision-not-negotiate-members-salaries/

THE BLAZE ^

Union Boss Trumka Admits Main Goal is Using Unions To Fundamentally ChangeAmerica into His Progressive Vision…Not Negotiate Members Salarieshttp://www.theblaze.com/stories/union-boss-trumka-admits-main-goal-is-using-unions-to-fundamentally-change-america-into-his-progressive-vision-not-negotiate-members-salaries/

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The National Labor Relations Board announces a new law that requires employers to prominently display union material in break rooms:

"Employees have the right to act together to improve wages and working conditions, toform, join, and assist a union, to bargain collectively with their employers, and to choosenot to do any of these activities."

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=558604&p=1

Related to below

• Death of newborn baby among several blizzard tragedies as city isaccused of 'dropping the ball'

New York Daily News ^ | 12/29/10 | Alison Gendar, Tina Moore, et al.

A blizzard baby delivered inside the lobby of a snowbound Brooklyn building diedafter an emergency call of a woman in labor brought no help for nine excruciatinghours. The baby's mother, a 22-year-old college senior, was recovering Tuesdaynight at Interfaith Medical Center, where her newborn was pronounced dead at 6:34

p.m. on Monday. That was 10 hours after the first 911 call from the bloodyvestibule on Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights. "No one could get to her. CrownHeights was not plowed, and no medical aid came for hours," said the student'smother.

Sanitation Department's slow snow clean-up was a budget protest (NYC unionthugs)

NY Post ^ | 12/30/10 | SALLY GOLDENBERG, LARRY CELONA and JOSHMARGOLIN

These garbage men really stink. Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from thesnow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to

protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.

• Unions continue to intimidate citizens at private home

Washington Times Water Cooler Blog ^ | 12/23/10 | Kerry Picket

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The unions are continuing their assault on private homeowners' property. Unionmembers of Roquette America in Keokuk, Illinois (h/t Dana Loesch at BigJournalism) stood outside of Roquette executives' homes on Wednesday night andsang "carols" while shouting profanities to the residents inside. WGEM reportedRoquette workers "have been off the job for almost three months now. Roquette

locked them out on September 28th, and contract negotiations have pretty muchstalled ever since." Ms. Loesch provides a transcript of some the lyrics from thesongs union members sang: “God bless ye very wealthy men, we’re here so you cansee.

• Where Unions Are, Americans Aren't (One conclusion to draw fromthe Census figures)

RealClearMarkets ^ | 12/22/2010 | Diana Furchtgott-Roth

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2010/12/23/where_unions_are_americans _arent_98809.html#

As a result of geographic shifts in population uncovered by the 2010 Census, nine

congressional seats will move to right-to-work states from forced unionization states. Some

winners are Texas, Florida, Arizona, Georgia, and South Carolina, while losers include New

York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and New Jersey. Over the past 25 years job growth in right-to-

work states has been over twice as high as in unionized states.

• Watch out: More Obama union pay-offs in the works

Michelle Malkin ^ | 12/20/10 | Michelle Malkin

On Friday, President Obama mollified Big Labor bosses at the White House. Whichmeans you better watch your wallets. Angered at the tax deal, union leadersmarched into 1600 Pennsylvania with a renewed list of grievances and demands.AFL-CIO chief thug Richard Trumka was there, along with: United SteelworkersPresident Leo Gerard; American Federation of Teachers President RandiWeingarten; Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry,and United Auto Workers President Bob King. One item on the Big Labor wish list:more failed government-funded infrastructure spending: AFL-CIO PresidentRichard Trumka, speaking for the union presidents at White House,

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• Obama Administration making plans to take over the 401(k)s to bail

out their union backersTea Party ^ | October 12, 2010 | Elizabeth T

Unionized labor is looting from us. Plans to take over our 401K- private retirementfunds. Communists did the same in Argentina, sized private pension funds.http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/obama-administration-m...http://www.commieblaster.com/index.htmlhttp://www.commieblaster.com/economy/index.html The Obama Administration ismaking plans to take over the nation’s 401(k)s in order to bail out their union

backers and their bankrupted pension plans. Connie Hair at Human Events

reported: In February, the White House released its “Annual Report on the MiddleClass” containing new regulations favored by Big Labor including a bailout of critically underfunded union pension plans through “retirement security” options.The radical solution most favored by Big Labor...

• Tim Pawlenty: Public-sector unions illegitimate

Hotair ^ | 12/13/2010 | Ed Morrissey

Fat pensions. Big salaries. Civil-service job protections. If any group of workersnever needed union representation, it’s public sector employees. OutgoingGovernor Tim Pawlenty writes today in the Wall Street Journal that the moralarguments for organizing simply don’t apply to government workers, andunionization ends up putting unelected, unaccountable union bosses in control of

public policy: When Americans think of organized labor, they might think of images like I saw growing up in a blue-collar meatpacking town: hard hats, work

boots, tough conditions and gritty jobs. While I didn’t work in theslaughterhouses,

• Incoming Chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee Wants toIsolate Enemies, Make U.N. Accountable

CNSnews ^ | December 9, 2010 | Patrick Goodenough

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(CNSNews.com) – The incoming Republican chairwoman of the U.S. HouseForeign Affairs Committee on Wednesday identified U.S. funding of the United

Nations as a target. The comments are likely to send a chill through supporters of the Obama administration’s policy of deeper engagement with the U.N. “I plan onusing U.S. contributions to international organizations as leverage to press for real

reform of those organizations, such as the United Nations,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said after GOP lawmakers confirmed she will chair the committee in thenext Congress.

• Obama Rigs Unionization Voting

Newsmax ^ | Monday, 06 Dec 2010 | Ronald Kessler

Today, only 7 percent of the private sector is unionized. Desperate to reverse thattrend, President Obama’s two appointees to the National Mediation Board changedrules for airline and railway union elections in May and stacked the deck in favor of unionization. Both are former union bosses. As a result, in Delta Air Lines’ flightattendant workforce of 20,000, for example, if only 5,000 employees voted, and2,501 of those employees say they wanted to join a union, the union would becertified to represent the entire workforce. The Obama appointees also changed therules

• Wisconsin Gov-elect Walker looks at showdown with employeeunions (proposes abolishing state unions)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 12/08/2010 | By Lee Bergquist and Jason Stein

Governor-elect Scott Walker raised the possibility of essentially abolishing stateemployee unions on Tuesday as one option to control rising employee benefitscosts and eliminate the state's budget deficit. Walker, a Republican, said he'slooking at a range of options that would weaken unions, including eliminating their ability to negotiate with the state. "Anything from the decertify all the way throughmodifications of the current laws in place," Walker said at a luncheon sponsored bythe Milwaukee Press Club. "The bottom line is we are going to look at every legalmeans we have to try to put that balance...

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• Corrupt LA Union Official Headed For Prison

ap cbs ^ | December 8, 2010 8:16 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former head of a Los Angeles union is going tofederal prison for stealing $52,000 from a voter outreach program.

• 1,000 (SEIU union) Workers to Lose Jobs

Bucks County Courier Times via PhillyBurbs.com ^ | December 2, 2010 | JohnAnastasi

Pharmaceutical distributor Express Scripts, unable to reach an agreement withunion officials, is closing two plants in Bensalem. At Express Scripts, the other shoe dropped Wednesday. Citing an impasse at the bargaining table, ExpressScripts announced that, on Feb. 1, it will close its Street Road plant, the larger of itstwo Bensalem facilities. The news came less than two months after the St. Louis-

based pharmaceutical distribution company disclosed its plan to shutter the smaller one - located on Marshall Lane - on Dec. 16. Together, Express Scripts employs1,000 people in Bensalem - 575 at Street Road and 425...

• Union Drops Health Coverage for Workers’ Children (SEIU)

Wall Street Journal blog ^ | 11/20/2010

One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York isdropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants,union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused bythe state’s health department and new national health-insurance requirements. Thefund is administered by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. Excerpt...story at link

• Corker to VW: No union

Chattanooga Times Free Press ^ | 11/28/10 | Andy Sher

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NASHVILLE -- U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., says he has told Volkswagenofficials that he thinks it would be "highly detrimental" to the German manufacturer if the United Auto Workers organizes its Chattanooga assembly plant. "I was askedto give input, and I did," Corker said. The advice stemmed from his experiencetrying to negotiate with the union during the 2008 federal bailout of GM and

Chrysler, he said. "I certainly shared with [VW] I couldn't see how there was any possibility it could be a benefit to them to enter into a contract with UAW," saidCorker,

• Notable & Quotable (Obama to UNIONIZE TSA)

Notable & Quotable ^ | November 27-28, 2010 | John Fund

If you think [the Transportation Security Administration] is dysfunctional andunpopular now, wait until it unionizes. This month, the Federal Labor RelationsAuthority ruled that 50,000 TSA personnel will be allowed to vote on whether or not to join a union with full collective bargaining rights. The American Federationof Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union are alreadygearing up their campaigns to win over the screeners.After 9/11, Congress wiselydecided to forbid TSA employees from coming under union work rules out of fear that it could compromise security.

• Communist Party USA Boasts Working Relationship with AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka in Elections Analysis

Gulag Bound ^ | November 15, 2010 | Arlen Williams

Barack Obama patting the back of Richard Trumka CPUSA Labor CommissionChairman, Scott Marshall emphasized their working relationship with the AFL-CIO

president Richard Trumka, in what he calls their continuing efforts of "independent" union organizations operating in, or for political campaigns. Thisoccurs beginning at the 12:05 mark of the 11/8/2010 video, “CPUSA analysis of theMid Term Elections," presented below. Marshall's words: "Not only did thecampaigning take place from union halls et cetera, et cetera, but this time, as, uh,Trumka told us when he was in Chicago, they began the nuts and bolts buildingindependent labor campaign organizations in 5 key cities around the country of which Chicago was one.

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One of the first orders of business to come up in the new Republican-controlledHouse of Representatives will be the demand for bailouts of states whereexpenditures have been especially profligate – California, New York, Michigan,Illinois, and Connecticut. Throughout 2009 and 2010, these states governmentshave stayed above water by repeated infusions of federal cash. These one-shot

stimulus payments must be repeated each year. They are all non-recurringexpenditures requiring separate annual appropriations. The Republican House mustsay no and hold the line, stopping this raid on the federal Treasury. The cry in thecaucus must ring loud: “No...

• Organized Labor Tries To Regroup (Lost More Than Democrats)

Palisade Hudson ^ | 11-3-2010 | Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®

Organized Labor Tries To Regroup By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP® Originally posted November 3, 2010. Organized labor, even more than the Democratic Party,took a punch in the gut with yesterday’s election results. The end of the Democrats’total dominance on Capitol Hill means labor has little chance of getting legislation

passed before 2013. But with a heretofore loyal ally in the White House, unions canstill accomplish many of their goals through executive and regulatory action – unless the administration pivots in another direction to prepare for PresidentObama’s re-election campaign. The Iowa caucuses are just 14 months...

• It's official: Olin ammo production to Mississippi (Union drives 800 jobs out of Illinois)

St. Louis Post Disgrace ^ | November 3, 2010 | STEVE GIEGERICH

The Olin Corp. announced Wednesday that it will suspend production of centerfireammunition at its plant in East Alton and re-locate the manufacturing operation toOxford, Miss. The move comes less than 24 hours after members of the unionrepresenting over Olin 800 workers rejected concessions that would have allowedthem to keep their jobs. "Our focus always has been on ensuring that we continue

producing high-quality products for our customers in an increasingly competitivemarket," president and CEO Joseph D. Rupp said in a prepared statement. "While Iam disappointed that employees represented by the International Association of Machinists...

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• Unions are hijacking our democracy

The Daily Caller ^ | 11/2/10 | Matt Patterson

Labor’s heavy hitters have even been deployed, including AFL-CIO presidentRichard Trumka, who has himself stumped for Reid, telling supporters, “If we’regoing to keep our champion …We’ve got to fight for him.” Unions have also

brought their incredibly large checkbook to bear: The SEIU alone has allocated$725,000 to help ensure Reid’s return to the United States Senate. Unions arespending like their very existence depends on liberals holding on to power in theU.S. government — which it does. The American Federation of State, County andMunicipal Employees (AFSCME), in fact, “has spent more than any other outside...

From Cricket

SEIU thugs attack (New link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

SEIU Exposed: SEIU Assaulted Workers During Corporate Campaign

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Workers blow whistle on SEIU election fraud

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Some Organizers Protest Their Union's Tactics

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/business/19...

SEIU assaults union supporter in hospital cafeteria

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Sonoma Co. providers and Supervisors blast SEIU secrecy and intimidation

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Obama sleeping with SEIU and ACORN (and who knows who else)

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

• Government Unions: The Real Wealth in American Politics

Capitol Confidential ^ | 10/29/2010 | Ken Braun

Depending upon which side you were on, the last election was either about "hopeand change," or it was about a takeover of the nation by radical progressives. Thewinners of that last contest are the likely losers of the one coming up this Tuesday,and they are already preparing another storyline to explain what is likely to happen:They say this election is being bought by the wealthy and powerful. They're right,

but for precisely the opposite reason from what they mean. The dirty secret of modern American politics is that the real wealthy and powerful are now the...

Jerry Brown is union backed and financed.

Unions cost Californians $4 Billion in personal incomehttp://capoliticalnews.com/blog_post/show/6670

Right to Work states gain Billions while union states loose jobs.

Michigan lost $2.5 billion from 2007 to 2008.California lost $4 billion.

New York lost $2.52 billion

The top ten states hit hardest in gross lost income were all forced-unionization states. Nineof the 12 states that showed the largest growth in income were right-to-work states.

A right-to-work state is defined as having laws guaranteeing that no person can be forced,as a condition of employment, to join or not to join, nor to pay dues to a labor union.

Florida had the biggest increase, $4.5 billionTexas was second with $2.8 billion

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Job Killer: A California congressman wants to eliminate right-to-work laws in 22 stateswhere workers don't have to join unions. If even-higher unemployment is his goal, he hasthe right idea.

Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat who represents a large part of Los Angeles' San Fernando

Valley, has introduced a bill that would repeal right-to-work statutes. These laws letworkers employed at organized companies choose for themselves if they're going to jointhe union or pay union dues. In the 28 states without right-to-work laws, workers are forcedto join the union if their employer has been organized.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_California's_average_pay_for_an_electricianAccording to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics the estimated mean annual wage for electricians as of May 2008 is, $49,890. This would amount to $23.98 per hour. In May2008, median hourly wages of wage and salary electricians were $22.32.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_a_journeyman_union_sheet_metal_worker_ make_in_local_83How much does a journeyman sheet metal worker make in local 83?$27.81 per hour

http://www.answers.com/topic/international-longshoremen-s-and-warehousemen-s-unionLongshoreman$10-$55/Hour. Found: 386 Jobs In Your Area. Hiring Now!

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Los_Angeles_CA_union_carpenters_pay_ratesWhat is a union carpenters pay scale?$35 an hour

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_hourly_wage_for_a_plumber If they are decent journeymen $90+ per hr if they are Master plumbers around $200per hr, Helpers normally $50 per hrLicensed Plumbers charge $140-210 per hour. with a 2 hour minimum usually2 guys $200 an hour.A licensed plumber working for a company will be paid $35-75.00 per hour depending on experience.

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if you hire a plumber your looking at at least 250 dollars or more usually depending thework done.....Plumbers wages are between $15.00 to $30.00 hour. Plumbers charge between $60.00 to$90.00 per hour for service work.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_money_does_a_beginning_mason_or_concrete_block_layer_earn

The current (2007) starting wage for a bricklayer in Los Angeles in the union is $11.92 anhour and journey top out at $34.07 after a 3.5 year apprenticeship.

Taking a Vote on Union Construction (in San Diego County)

New York Times ^ | October 14, 2010 | STEVEN GREENHOUSE

SAN DIEGO — California’s go-go construction industry came crashing to earthwhen the housing bubble burst. Ever since, union leaders and nonunion contractorshave fought hammer and tongs for a bigger share of the shrunken business, much of which is public sector construction. Labor unions have used their clout to persuademany city councils, county boards and school districts to adopt policies that favor unionized contractors and workers for building projects like schools and prisons.

Fuming at the favoritism, nonunion contractors have begun turning to the ballot box, asking voters to prohibit cities and counties from adopting such a pro-union...

Peter Jackson vs. The Unions (The Hobbit vs Saruman)

Big Hollywood ^ | October 14, 2010 | Leigh Scott

Peter Jackson vs. The Unions Posted By Leigh Scott On October 12, 2010 So mygood friends, the labor unions, have decided to pick a fight with Peter Jackson and

his upcoming production of “The Hobbit.” Of course, they are not my good friends,I say that sarcastically. Unions in general are bad news these days. The idea of “protecting the worker” has somehow morphed like a T-1000 into huge, multi-

billion dollar corporations that stifle economic growth while using illegal methodsof coercion to blackmail money from employers. The fact that they are a de factowing of the Democratic...

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• Trumka: Unions to Build Firewall

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 10-12-10 | Jonathan Weisman

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters today that unions were going to build a firewall to protect the Democrats’ House majority, and he presentednumbers suggesting the Republican mountain to climb to the majority is indeed asteep one. By Trumka’s math, 75 Democratic House seats are in play, a number roughly in line with independent estimates. To secure a majority, the GOP needs tonet 39 seats. Of the 75 in play, 37 are what Trumka calls “high union density”districts, from the suburbs of Chicago to the hard-scrabble working regions of Pennsylvania.

• How Unions or Their Allies Could be Stealing November’s ElectionRight Now (Could?)

Big Government ^ | October 7, 2010 | LaborUnionReport

How Unions or Their Allies Could be Stealing November’s Election Right Now byLaborUnionReport Here is a prediction: Across the country, there will be races thatsome candidates will lose even though poll numbers, right now, indicate otherwise.As you read this, at present, you should know that there are only seeminglydisconnected anecdotal dots that are starting to connect. However, if the dots dofully connect, we may not know until well after the November 2nd election if, infact, America’s democratic election process will have become the victim of the

biggest fraud in our nation’s history. What’s worse,...

Postal Union Election Delayed After Ballots Lost in the Mail

Fox News ^ | 10/07/10 | Fox News

The American Postal Workers Union has extended its internal election after thousands of ballots appeared to have gotten lost . . . in the mail. The union'selection committee was supposed to be counting those ballots this week in

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downtown Washington, D.C., following a tradition mail-in election. But the unionannounced that only about 39,000 ballots were turned in -- and that "a large number of union members had not received their ballots."

Schultz Union-Boss Guest Complaining About Foreign Influence OnElections Is . . . A Foreigner

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/10/06/schultz-union-boss-guest-complaining-about-foreign-influence-elect ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Pot calling the kettle foreign, eh? You're Ed Schultz. Sorry about that, but work with me. Your big beef on tonight's show is foreign influence on US elections.

What would be the glaring, obvious, overwhelming thing you would want to avoidin your choice of a guest? Having a union boss who is himself a foreigner, you say?Bingo! Yet that's exactly the slip-up Schultz committed. View video here.

• AFL-CIO Prez Trumka: ‘We Need to…Re-establish PopularControl Over Private Corporations’

http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/09/27/afl-cio-prez-trumka-we-need-tore-establish-popular-control-over-private-corporations/ ^

we need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular controlover the private corporations which have distorted our economy and hijacked our government. That’s a long-term job, but one we should start now.

http://capoliticalnews.com/blog_post/show/6416

Los Angeles defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., which plans to move itsheadquarters to the Washington, D.C. area next year, announced Monday that some 500Los Angeles County employees will be laid off by the end of the year.

Northrop Grumman, which has more than 12,000 workers in the county and 21,000 inCalifornia, said the layoffs would be concentrated in its El Segundo and Manhattan Beachoperations. In addition to its corporate offices, the company has its aerospace division inthe county.

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The company announced in January that it would move from Century City to the EastCoast in order to be closer to its military clients. In April, it said it had found a site inArlington, Va.

• Feds investigate prominent ex-labor leader Andy Stern

New York Post ̂ | 9/28/2010 | Post Wire Services

WASHINGTON — Prominent ex-labor leader Andy Stern is reportedly beinginvestigated by the FBI and Department of Labor as part of a corruption probeinvolving the Service Employees International Union, authorities said. Twoorganized labor officials met with federal agents this summer to answer questionsabout Stern’s role in approving money to pay the salary of an SEIU leader inCalifornia who performed no work and a book contract that Stern landed in 2006,The Los Angeles Times reported today on its website. Both officials spoke oncondition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the investigation. TheFBI...

• Obama Kneecaps Airlines (but after November Congress couldoverturn this--- and a lot more)

Human Events ^ | 09/27/2010 | Connie Hair

The Obama administration set Big Labor on the easy road to cannibalize the airlineand rail industries and last week Senate Democrats stamped their imprimatur on thedeal -- at a time when taxpayers are getting full view of the cost of out of controlunions bankrupting state and local governments and destroying public education.The Senate used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) in an attempt to overruleObama appointees at the National Mediation (NMB) board which changed a 75-year rule that required a majority of employees in a rail or airline company to voteto unionize. The motion to...

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Meet The 8,074 New York Transit Workers Who Earn More Than$100,000 (Amidst yet another fare hike)

Business Insider ^ | 09/14/2010 | Gus Lubin

Last night the MTA said a fare hike by January is a near certainty. This will be thethird fare hike since 2008, raising the monthly unlimited pass from $89 to $104.Meanwhile, the MTA continues to pass major service cuts. But what's reallyappalling here is how much transit workers get paid. We're republishing data fromSeeThroughNY showing that 8,074 MTA employees earned $100,000 last year.Fifty MTA employees earned more than $200,000 last year. And salaries are rising.

• UPS and Homeland Security - UPDATE - IT WAS UPS AND THETEAMSTERS

Me | Follow up to Earlier Post | JessDuntno

I own a small business. About two hours ago, a woman came through the door marked NO ADMITTANCE EMPLOYEES ONLY and started talking to one of theguys, asking questions about the business. He tried to point out to her that she had

just walked through a door that was pretty clearly marked as for employees onlyand she waved that off and produced a business card that said she was a UPS

Representative. she starts to explain that she is here by request of HomelandSecurity and is doing a checkup on our business because we do a lot...

• Mich. child care workers sue to break from union

AP ^ | 9/13/10 | Staff

Peggy Mashke tends to 12 children for 12 hours a day at her home, so she wassurprised to get a letter welcoming her to the United Auto Workers union. "Ithought it was a joke," said Mashke, 50, of northern Michigan's Ogemaw County."I work out of my home. I'm not an auto worker. How can I become a member of the UAW? I didn't get it." Willing or not, Mashke and 40,000 other at-home

providers are members of a labor partnership that represents people acrossMichigan who watch children from low-income families. Two unions receive 1.15

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• Obama's $50 Billion Union Infrastructure BoondoggleTownhall.com ^ | September 8, 2010 | Michelle Malkin

President Obama calls his latest attempt to revive the economy a "Plan to Renew andExpand America's Roads, Railways and Runways." I'm calling it "The Mother of all BigDig Boondoggles." Like the infamous "Big Dig" highway spending project in Boston, thislatest White House infrastructure spending binge guarantees only two results: Taxpayerslose; unions win. The plan would add at least $50 billion more to the nearly $230 billionalready allocated in the original trillion-dollar stimulus law for infrastructure. Less thanone-third of that infrastructure stimulus money has been spent, but the urgency to pile onhas increased exponentially...

• Big Labor’s Stealth Card-Check Strategy (NLRB will "pass it" after election) National Review ̂ | 9/7/10 | Mix

Having failed to pass the legislation they want, union bosses turn to the executive branch.After spending over a billion dollars to elect Barack Obama president andDemocratic majorities to Congress in 2008, Big Labor thought it had bought enoughsupport to ram through a “card check” bill that effectively eliminates secret-ballot votes for unionization and lets federal bureaucrats dictate contracts to employees and employers. Butdespite an intense, union-boss-backed lobbying campaign, attempts to pass card check stalled as elected officials felt the heat from voters, who are overwhelmingly against the

bill. With a vote on the legislation unlikely between now...

• Why Are Media Ignoring Trumka's Background? National Legal & Policy Center ^ | September 7, 2010 | Carl Horowitz Barack Obama, like any Democratic president, has serious IOUs to labor unions. AndAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, more than any other labor leader, is one ally he can'tafford to alienate. About the last thing Obama wants, especially as his party faces heavylosses in congressional elections this November, is the subject of Trumka's lengthy track record of aggression and corruption to come up. Major media, for the most part, haveobliged him in the wake of the round of speeches yesterday at the Milwaukee Area Labor Council Laborfest, making little or mention of inconvenient facts. It isn't...

• Obama’s Next Union BailoutFrontpagemagazine ^ | 9-7-10 | Tait Trussell

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Union bosses have bamboozled millions of their members by operating inadequatelyfunded pension plans. Now union-loving lawmakers want to spend at least $165 billion taxdollars to bail out the plans. In a detailed 80-page study released Aug. 31, the HudsonInstitute, a nonpartisan policy research organization, illuminates the causes of underfunding

and how political interests have played a leading role in the sorry shape of the pensions,that exist to pay promised retirement benefits to workers. The dollar estimate came fromMoody’s Investors Service. If the bailout legislation becomes law, it ultimately could costtaxpayers unknowable hundreds of billions...

• Organizing Ford; the 1941 River Rouge strikeAmerican Thinker ^ | 9/6/2010 | Phil Boehmke

Ford Motor Company was the last American automaker to hold the line against

unionization. In April of 1941 a violent strike closed the enormous River Rouge plant andafter a ten day siege Henry Ford capitulated to demands for a union contract. The strike atRiver Rouge has long been regarded at a great victory for the workers over the oppressivemanagement at Ford Motor Company. Oddly enough Henry Ford had been criticized bysome of his competitors for paying excessively high wages and for actively recruitingmembers of the black community. Ford's practice of tying compensation to productivitywas...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/obama_did_create_3_million_job.html

According to this article, Andrew Stern not only makes frequent trips to the White House,he makes frequent trips to China and China’s unions.

"I get in trouble on Glenn Beck saying, 'Workers of the world unite!' It's not just a slogan,"Stern says. It's critical, he adds, for US and Chinese workers to see each other as allies, andhe argues that efforts such as his can help shift the ACFTU (Chinese Union) in a directionthat will make it much more representative of its hundreds of millions of members.

The title of this article is Obama Did Create 3 Million Jobs—In China

• Labor has key role in restoring U.S. Chicago Sun-Times ^ | August 31, 2010 | Je$$e Jack$on

There are so many vacant lots in Detroit that serious plans are being made to start upfamily farming there -- 90,000 vacant lots and homes boarded up. Detroit suffers recordunemployment. Not one chain grocery store does business in Detroit. Not one national

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chain retail store. Detroit residents travel to the suburbs to shop, spending $2 billion a year outside the city. Detroit's agony is mirrored by labor's decline. The U.S. lost one of threemanufacturing jobs during the last decade. We suffered a staggering $5.9 trillion in tradelosses, running up deficits that required borrowing $2 billion a...

• Obama to appear at Labor Day rally with AFL-CIO presidentThe Hill ^ | August 30, 2010 | Michael O'Brien

President Obama will spend Labor Day alongside AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, theunion announced Monday. Obama, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Trumka will all

participate in a Labor Day "celebration and rally" in Milwaukee on Monday, an appearanceconfirmed by the White House this afternoon, which separately announced the presidentwould travel to Wisconsin for the Laborfest. The appearance is another recent sign of unity

between Obama and Trumka — the pair had sometimes had an adversarial relationshipover the past year on issues like stimulating the economy and healthcare reform. (Trumka

had pushed for a heftier stimulus and...

• UFT Employee says teachers union fired him for trying to unionize workersThe 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, it was charged yesterday. Read more:http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/this_oughta_teach_him_rQamwIU0sNZxyrmyNBxz4L#ixzz0y8194DhM

• New SEC Rule Gives Unions More Power Than Average Investors big government ^ | 8/29/10 | Jeff Dunetz

This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule that is designed tomake it much easier for large shareholders to force out corporate directors. The rule allowsa big shareholder to nominate his own board slate and have those its board nominees listedon a company-mailed “proxy” ballot alongside the candidates favored by management.Onone hand, the rule seems pretty reasonable, why shouldn’t the average shareholder have achoice in who to vote for? Its the American way.This rule, however has nothing to do withthe average shareholder, in fact it probably guarantees the average shareholder will have...

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• Big Unions to Pool Money for Fall ElectionsThe Wall Street Journal ^ | 08-25-10 | MELANIE TROTTMAN

The leaders of the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union have agreed tocoordinate spending millions of dollars in the midterm elections to support pro-unioncandidates, most of them Democrats. The two labor organizations say they have acombined $88 million or more to deploy in this year's election cycle. It's not clear howmuch of that money they will pool together. The renewed alliance between the two biglabor groups comes as Democrats are battling to retain control of both houses of Congress.The AFL-CIO and SEIU plan to target elections in 26 states, all but five of...

• Obama administration and labor union allies proclaim victory in Arizona

California Independent Voter Network ^ | July 30, 2010 | by Christopher A. GuzmanLabor unions have been some of the staunchest opponents of the Arizona law and strongestadvocates of a fast track legalization process. Among these unions would be the UFCWand SEIU. And their strong opposition to the Arizona law would seem to make sense froma political perspective. Slower influxes of immigrants to the states would stunt membershipgrowth, and slower membership growth equals a thinner cash flow for political causes,which typically leans democratic. While comprehensive immigration reform might benecessary to some extent, the way the Obama administration is handling the matter doesn’tappear to be consistent with...

• The Federal Salary WarFedsmith ^ | August 17, 2010 | Ralph Smith

Federal employee salaries are making news around the country. Literally over a hundredarticles have appeared in the past few days in news media noting that federal employeesnow make more than twice as much as the average American. Moreover, the disparity

between the average salary of federal employees and the rest of America continues to growwider each year. According to OPM, "Thirty years ago, over 22% of our workforce was in

blue collar jobs. Now that percentage has dropped by half while the percentage of IT andHealth professionals has doubled. Data clearly show that many of these...

• The Public Employee Union ScamCapitol Confidential ^ | 8/18/2010 | Jarrett Skorup

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Unlike private sector unions, the sheer number of workers represented is not the linchpin of [the public sector unions] influence. Private sector unions have a natural adversary in theowners of the companies with whom they negotiate. But public sector unions have no suchnatural counterweight. They are a classic case of "client politics," where an interest group'sconcentrated efforts to secure rewards impose diffused costs on the mass of unorganized

taxpayers. A conflict of interest would be as follows: First, government union elects politician by funding their campaign and organizing a massive get-out-the-vote drive;second, politician supports employee pay...

• How To Go ExtinctIBD Editorials ^ | August 18, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff

Labor: The members of a United Auto Workers local decide they'd rather shut their IndianaGM plant than take a pay cut to keep their jobs. It's their choice, but it's also about as

intelligent as a dodo. Commentators including Rush Limbaugh have noted with amusementthat even the UAW leadership was unable to persuade 631 Indianapolis union members toaccept a pay cut so their plant could stay in business. After all, UAW now owns GeneralMotors, so it was comical seeing them worry about costs just like any other owner. The

bottom line was that the plant would...

• Summer of corruption: Obama’s Big Labor ethics loopholeMichelle Malkin ^ | August 18, 2010 | Michelle Malkin

Today’s column targets SEIU consigliere Craig Becker and the latest White House gift toBig Labor. So far this summer, Team Obama is fronting the SEIU-backed $8 billion Child

Nutrition Act expansion and forked over the union-stamped $26 billion BigGovJobs bailout. And as I noted yesterday, the next big government/labor payoff is on the way in theform of the PBGC bailout. How many more union payoffs can we afford?! Obama’s BigLabor ethics loophole by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 Everythingyou need to know about President Obama’s fraudulent ethics pledge can be summed up infour words:...

Despite 24-year leave of absence, Peabody,Mass. teacher can get full pensionThe Salem News ^ | August 16, 2010 | By Matthew K. Roy

"She has not taught in a Peabody classroom since 1986, but when she retires from her jobin the private sector, Annemarie DuBois will be eligible to receive the same pension she'd

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get if she'd been teaching her entire career. DuBois, a former English teacher at PeabodyVeterans Memorial High School, has been on a leave of absence from the school for 24years. Before the 1986-87 school year, she left to work for a union that represents thestate's public school teachers."

Unmasking ACORN: Former Leaders Reorganize with New Groupsheritage.org ^ | 8/11/10 | Tina Korbe

ACORN might have disbanded, but the risk of vote fraud in the November 2010 electionsis still real. “Desperate men and women will do desperate things to maintain power whenthe public threatens to take that power away from them,” said David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union. “That means that, more so than in other years, [somecandidates] are going to be relying on whatever kind of assistance they can get fromwhatever quarter that assistance might come.” That assistance will come from ACORN-

like groups, Keene explained at yesterday’s Bloggers Briefing at Heritage. Keene said the people who...

Arizona to begin session on anti-union measureMonday, August 09, 2010 5:54:47 PMBusinessweek ^ | August 9 2010 | Business Week

Arizona lawmakers are scheduled to begin a special session Monday to fix an anti-union ballot measure ruled unconstitutional. The legislation would ask voters at the Nov. 2election whether to require a secret ballot for employees voting whether to organize as partof a labor union. The Arizona ballot measure is a priority for the business community,which argues that the federal legislation would allow union organizers to intimidateworkers into joining. Unions say workers should have a choice in how to form a union.

100806 Obama administration awards $159.1 million for training geriatric-care workershttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2565354/posts

100725 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2558723/postsSEIU Arizona member Fernando Villalobos speaks out against SB1070

100720 Calif Pro-union law struck down by appeals courthttp://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_diseases.htmlPicketing outside stores is unconstitutional because it requires property owners to hostspeakers they disagree with

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100710http://www.collinsreport.net/2010/07/09/10-billion-debt-illinois-democrats-give-7-raise-to-their-union-masters-to-buy-november-support/$10 billion debt, Illinois Democrats give 7% raise to their union masters to buy November

support

100709http://townhall.com/columnists/EdFeulner/2010/07/09/the_case_for_federal_employee_compensation_reform/page/fullChicago, Union workers paid $28.64 an hour, private $18.27 an hour. Feds can retire at 56.Feds hired 200,000 since recession, private has shed 8 million jobs. Impossible to fire feds.

100705 http://www.lvrj.com/news/public-employees--pay-keeps-rising-97757899.htmlPublic employees’ pay keeps rising

Nevada, private sector dropped an average $13 per week from $804 to $791. Localgovernment went up $47 per week from $949 to $946 in 2009.

Federal pay went from $1,201 to $1,216 per week.State pay went from $989 to $1,006 per week.

Clark County private sector dropped from $808 to $790.Government went up $990 to $1,052.

SEIU represents 18,000 Nevada workers, half are government employees.

Nevada’s local governments statewide employed 105,095 in 2008 and shed 3,528 jobs, a3.4% decrease.

State agencies shed 570 jobs of the 33,771 they had in 2008, a 1.7% decrease.

The feds in Nevada grew jobs from 17,256 to 17,620 in 2009.

Private payroll dropped from $46 billion to $41 billion while the government grew.

100703 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2546574/postsSome day cares fell railroaded into UAWBecoming a UAW member is not what many day care providers expected when theyagreed to accept state compensation for children attending their day care.

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100702 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2545559/postsFrench civil servant lifts lid on five-hours-a-week culturePost #2 is funny, sad state of affairs

100626Unions file lawsuit to keep pension initiative off ballot (California)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2541987/posts

*100620San DiegoCity Council shuts down union retirement perk that allows retirement-aged union workersto keep working for five years while their pension payments are funneled into aninvestment account.http://capoliticalnews.com/blog_post/show/5429

*100620Toyota announced it is opening plant in Mississippi to build its Corolla. The car was builtat the NUMMI plant here in California but Unions and regulations forced them to closetheir doors and lay off 5,000 workers.http://capoliticalnews.com/blog_post/show/5431

*100616http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/16/2827905/four-unions-agree-to-roll-back.htmlThe California Highway Patrol officers union, the California Department of ForestryFirefighters, the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians and the AmericanFederation of State, County and Municipal Employees with contracts covering 23,000 stateemployees have agreed to roll back pension benefits for new hires.

The CHP would push up retirement age from 50 to 55 and limit their pay to 90 percent of average wage.

All four groups would increase their pension contributions to 10 percent from 5 percent.

*100612 New York, 3,700 retired pensioners paid over $100,000California, 15,000 retired pensioners paid over $100,000California, pension costs increased by 2,000 percent in last decade

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California unfunded pension liability $63.5 billion in 2008Ohio unfunded pension liability is $4.1 billionOver 1/3 public sector employees are union7.2 percent of private sector employees are unionEight out of 10 occupations paid more to public employees

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/06/11/the_enormous_cost_of_public_unions _105935.html

*100612Two Republican candidates running for a supervisors seat in Orange County, Calif. HarrySidhu had the union backing with their $1 million and Shawn Nelson won with his pensionreformer stance.http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/537131/201006111840/Taking-On-The-Unions-In-Calif-and151-And-Winning.aspx

* 100612Flopping Aces extended article agreeing with belowhttp://www.floppingaces.net/2010/06/11/bureaucracy-epa-napolitano-stop-us-from-keeping-up-with-the-joneses-on-oil-spill-clean-up/

* 100612The U.S. has no ships designed to clean up oil spills while Europe does. Several countrieshave offered to help clean up our oil spill but Obama told them No. He doesn’t want toupset the unions, specifically the Longshoremen.

At issue is the “Jones Act”, a law that protects our Longshoremen from foreigncompetition. President Bush suspended the law to speed up the Katrina relief but Obamarefuses and would rather “kick the ass” of the evil capitalists.http://radioviceonline.com/obama-blocks-speedy-bp-oil-spill-cleanup/

*Just in case you didn’t know that SEIU wanted to dumb down America by bringing ingovernment dependent illiterate illegal aliens, SEIU has a travel warning about visitingArizona.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530769/postshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VeBabyvALwOperator: If your skin is even remotely tanned, yellow, brown or blue in hue, press 2.(beep)Operator: Working people come in many shapes and sizes, but anyone who doesn’tresemble a J. Crew or Ralph Lauren model, should be very, very careful. Consider wearingconservative or preppy clothing to avoid getting noticed.Operator: If you tend to eat fast foods, drink bright colored juices or eat fresh vegetables inlieu of meat product, press 3.

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(beep)Operator: Many working people targeted by the new Arizona immigration law eat fastfoods and drink bright colored juices. Avoid these foods while traveling in Arizona toavoid undue attention from law enforcement officials.

*SEIU officials: Blanche Lincoln should forget about our support in general electionhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2531083/posts

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100609 Andrew Stern-Fundamentally Changing AmericaThe most Blatant admission that these people are out to change the U.S.http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/67268http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530707/postsVideoBookmark in this document*100607 Suddenly no candidate is willing to take firefighter money in June*100604 Machinists file unfair labor charge against Boeing*100529 NUHW defeats SEIU*100528 Pot Workers join Union*100528 Bill Hite sees hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs per year *

100526 Proposed $165B pension bailout, half of $862B stimulus to unions, proposed $23Baid to education, $400 million to Dems in 2008**100524 US Chamber joins suit against new union rule*Has anyone figured out how Meg Whitman can be against Arizona and illegalimmigration?*100522 SEIU and Kaiser *

Andy Stern and Barack Obama: Fiscal Responsibility FraudstersBy Michelle MalkinMarch 30, 2010http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/03/03/andy_stern_and_barack_obama_fiscal_responsibility_fraudsters?page=full&comments=truesnipSEIU crony Tyrone Freeman, like Obama, began his career as an urban communityorganizer. In 1994, Stern plucked Freeman from Georgia and set his loyalist up as head of

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Local 6434, the sprawling home-care workers' chapter in southern California thatrepresents an estimated 160,000 workers who make about $9 an hour caring for the elderlyand disabled. Stern then named him a national vice president. It was part of Stern's grander

plan to consolidate power by merging locals into statewide chapters.

An extensive investigation by the Los Angeles Times exposed how Stern's protegesiphoned off hundreds of thousands of dollars in dues money for his personal enrichmentand pleasure.Snip

*100520 List of pro Union Republicans in Collins Report*Federal law threat to impose unions on all governements.*#http://capoliticalnews.com/blog_post/show/5054

Now here’s proof that “going green” is nothing more thanadvancing unions. A solar installation company saw theneed for a solar certification program. He developed a two-year program and had it approved by the CaliforniaApprenticeship Council (CAC) in 2008. He began trainingin 2009.

It turns out that the unions have the right to reverse CACdecisions, citing AB921.*http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_W_demographics09.4769602.htmlA newly released report illustrates demographic shifts that are transforming the Inland area.The study looked at the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas.The Hispanic population grew by more than 635,000 between 2000 and 2008. It was the

biggest rise in Latino population of any metro area.The number of white, non-Hispanic residents fell by more than 72,000. The number of Asians rose by 86,436 , or 59 percent.There were almost 900,000 immigrants in 2008.

Nearly half a million children had at least one foreign-born parent.The average Inland household size was 3.29 , compared to 2.62 nationally.Only 19 percent of Inland residents had a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 27.7percent nationwide.SOURCE: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ANALYSIS OF U.S. CENSUS bureau POPULATION ESTIMATES

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Arizona, Senator Russell Pearce is constructing Senate Bill 1097 . It requires countingillegal alien children in schools and then providing a cost analysis.*100506 SEIU announces boycott of Arizona over immigration law.

http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&clipid=1482873069Video of May Day around the world, but in our case, these people don’t belong here, theyare foreigners, yet they are demanding socialist change and citizenship.

Notice who is sponsoring these people, it is the unions.

What do these people want ?

#Peace and Freedom Party platformhttp://peaceandfreedom.org/home/index.php/about-us/platformLook for the red shirts today in their parade

These are just some of the most obscene demands:Union jobs for everyoneA universal basic income30-hour work week for 40 hour pay and no forced overtimeAt least 4 weeks paid vacationPaid parental leaves and time off work for childcare.

Withdraw all US troops and weaponsStop all U.S. arms exportsFree government childcareAbortions on demandAffirmative actionAbolish all English-only laws and policiesOpen bordersEnd to deportationsFull political, social and economic rights to non-citizensFoster parenthood rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.Teach perverted text in schools

Solar power End nuclear and fossil fuelsPublic ownership of public utilitiesFree public transportationEnd subsidies and tax breaks for corporationsFood distribution by farm and consumer cooperativesTeach socialism and unionsFree higher education

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No school vouchersFree housingQuit looking at socialistsRepeal Three Strikes lawDecriminalize drugs and sex with minors

Freedom of terroristsEliminate for-profit healthcare No private patents on drugsRepeal property taxes on homesRepeal sales taxStick it to rich peopleEliminate income taxes for low to moderate income familiesTax churchesGovernment control of airwavesMandatory rebuttals to political viewsStrict separation of religion and government

Last year , we issued 1,130,818 green cards, the fourth highest year since 1914. From2000-2009, we issued over 10 million green cards, the highest decade of American history.Currently, there are 38 million immigrants, 24 million of whom are in the workforce. Thisdoes not include temporary workers. DHS did not release the 2009 figures yet, but theyissued 912,735 temporary employment authorizations in 2008.

Most of these immigrants are low skilled and from the Third World. Less than 10% of newgreen card holders are from Europe. People of extraordinary ability, investors, andimmigrants with advanced degrees made up less than 8% of the new immigrants.

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In February Obama quietly signed Executive Order 13502 ordering federal agencies to accept only unionshop bids for construction projects over $25 millionALSO

UNIONS WILL HIRE NON-UNION, FORCE THE NON-UNION INTO PAYINGUNION PENSIONS, AND THEN FIRE THEM BEFORE THEY CAN JOIN THEUNION, JUST LIKE LOCAL 399, BUT THEY GET TO BEEF UP THEIR PENSIONFUNDS.

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Arizona Legislature Passes Bill Banning Ethnic Studies Programs

Arizona has right-to-work laws that limit union organizing in the state. In 2009, only 6.5 percent of Arizona workers were union members, compared with a 12.3 percent nationalaverage, according the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The recession also has reduced union membership in Arizona, from 227,000 workers in2008 to 162,000 in 2009, according to BLS.

Read more: Immigration law prompts union push - Phoenix Business Journal:

http://lavote.net/voter info

http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/op/OP_398OP.pdf Orange County filed bankruptcy December 6, 1994 and emerged from bankruptcy only 18months later

Orange County Treasurer Bob Citron was in office for 24 years but in the early 90’s madesome risky investments and lost.Orange County is a conservative county and refused all efforts to raise taxes or lower services.The budget cuts fell largely on the poor, Community and Social Services were reduced by27 percent and Health Services by 25 percent.The county issued $880 million in bonds.

LA is a magnet for the poor with all their benefits, they have 22.1% of population and18.3% of families below poverty line while Orange County has 10.3% of population and7% of families below poverty line.

From Greatschools.org

Orange County

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El Portal Elementary in La Habra. $7,025 per pupil, 55% Latino, 27% subsidized lunch,28% English language learners.Franklin Elementary in Anaheim. $8,615 per pupil, 89% Latino, 87% subsidized lunch,51% English language learners.Brea Country Hills Elementary in Brea, $7,949 per pupil, 16% Latino, 8% subsidized

lunch, 13% English language learners.

Los Angeles CountyVan Nuys Elementary in Van Nuys, $10,430 per pupil. 95% Latino, 57% subsidized lunch,50% English Learners.Sherman Oaks Elementary in Sherman Oaks, $10,430 per pupil, 24% Latino, 23%subsidized lunch, 12% English language learners.

Los AngelesFrom Wiki, 41.9% are married with children, 14.5% mothers with children.Population in 2008 exceeded 10,000,000 with 4 million registered voters.

51.95% Democrat24.96% Republican1.82% independent19.6% decline to stateMedian income for a household was $36,687, for a family it was $39,942.22.1% of population and 18.3% of families were below poverty line.7.85/100,000 murders in LA.

Orange County3,010,759 population in 20083 Orange County cities are listed among America’s 25 most conservative.1,599,899 registered voters43.6% Republican32.1% Democrat20.2% declined to state55.9% are married with children, 10.7% are mothers with children.Median income for a household was $61,899, for a family it was $75,700.10.3% of population and 7% of families were below poverty line.There was 1 murder in 2005?

LA Times, 2006http://articles.latimes.com/2006/dec/30/local/me-pensions30

San Francisco requires public votes to increase pensionsand the system works.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/23/public-sector-unions-bankrupting-america/print/By 2013 pension requirements in our country will be short by more than a trillion dollars.California is facing a half-trillion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities.CHP can retire at 50 with up to 90% of salary. $109,147 earnings returns $98,232 pension.

State and local governments employ 15 million, up 40% from 1992.

Here is an excellent article on City Journal by Steven Malanga,The Beholden State-How public-sector unions broke Californiahttp://city-journal.org/2010/20_2_california-unions.html

It is a long article but well worth the read.

Phyllis Schlafly, Some Pay, and Some Receive.http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2010/04/20/some_pay,_and_some_receive?

page=full&comments=true---Obama’s stimulus law will add nearly $800 billion in new means-tested welfarespending over the next decade.---

---married taxpayers pay three-fourths of all federal income taxes, whereas two-thirds of single parents who file as head-of-household pay no income tax at all.---

and

---In 2008, 40.6 percent of children born in the United States were born outside of marriage; that’s 1,720,000 children---

Then she goes on to explain why our government is actively promoting the single mother and how a single mother creates jobs for more union represented government employees.The same could be said for the importation of illiterate, government dependent foreigners.

Then Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, offered green jobs to Latinos, thousands of jobs, again more government jobs, more union jobs.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/19/preparing-our-youth-clean-energy-jobs-future

Union and Illegal Aliens 090214http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/milkman/union_census.pdf

19.1% of California’s workforce is union.

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26.2% of union members are in education. 9.4% of workforce.15% of union members are in transportation and utilities. 7.1% of workforce.UNIONS: IBT, SEIU, UFCW, IAM, UBC, CWA, IBEW, IUOE, LIUNA, HERE, NALC,Actors and Artistes.Public sector union members are 53.8% union or16% of workforce.

Healthcare union members are 17% union or 8% of workforce.California Teachers Association (CTA) and California School EmployeesAssociation (CSEA) are 71.6% of all education union members.22.1% of all union members are immigrants.32.4% of workforce is immigrants.16.5% of Los Angeles workforce is union.37.5% of LA workforce are Latino, 2/3 foreign born.29.7% of LA union workforce is Latino, 14% foreigner.10.6% of Building Trade workers are union.

http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/12/class-war/pg1, 2, 3, 4A very good article about how the civil service has grown out of control withperks, unbelievable retirement benefits and size.

Another View: Immigration and the unions-The New York Times 4/21/09

"Workers don't depress wages; unscrupulous employers do," said TerenceO'Sullivan, president of the Laborers' International Union of North America.Unemployment in his industry is above 21 percent. Nearly 2 million constructionworkers are out of work. So what does O'Sullivan want? Reform that allowsimmigrants to legalize. "If we can free them so they can come out of theshadows, we can not only improve their lives, but all workers' lives," he said.

Eliseo Medina, international executive vice president of the Service EmployeesInternational Union, agreed. "First and foremost, this is an economic argument,"he said.

SEIU Campaign Spending Pays Political Dividends

Wall Street Journal May 16, 2009-Kris Maher

---Officials say the fast-growing union spent $85 Million during the campaignseason last year, and that it was well worth it: The Obama administration hasappointed union officials to top posts and is backing legislation to make it easier for workers to organize.---

LA Times, Patrick J. McDonnell, Sept 8, 2009

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---Between July 2008 and June 2009, unions gained almost 25,000 new members inSouthern California and more than 131,000 statewide, according to the institute's fifthannual report on the state of organized labor.---

Rasmussen Report-53 percent of American adults believe capitalism is betterthan socialism.Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37 percent prefer capitalism, 33percent socialism, and 30 percent undecided.

"Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father's model fororganizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing toaffect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as weapproach his 100th birthday." --Letter from L. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-MarxistSaul Alinsky

Sal Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, Rule no. 2

"The means-and-ends moralists , constantly obsessed with the ethics of themeans used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as totheir real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of theHaves…. The most unethica l of all means is the non-use of any means... Thestandards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it islived, the world as it is , not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it shouldbe ...." pp.25-26

Notes: Apparently, Michelle Obama referred to these words during her DemocraticNational Convention speech:

"She said, 'Barack stood up that day,' talking about avisit to Chicago neighborhoods, 'and spoke words thathave stayed with me ever since. He talked about 'Theworld as it is ' and ' The world as it should be …'And, 'All of us driven by a simple belief that theworld as it is just won't do – that we have anobligation to, fight for the world as it shouldbe ."

Do you wonder who -- or whose values -- should determine what "the world... shouldbe?"

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LA Times Feb 17, 2009Paul Pringle wins George Polk Award for corruption investigation of Los Angeles’sSEIU and a related charity paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to firmsowned by wife and mother-in-law of chapter’s president and spent similar sums

on a Four Seasons Resorts golf tournament, a Beverly Hills cigar club, meals athigh end restaurants and a consulting contract with a Hollywood talent agency.The union that represents 160,000 workers led to allegations that chapterpresident, Tyrone Freeman, and others ordered employees of their affiliatedcharity to work on political campaigns.

Glenn Beck, Obama and SEIU. Starts at minute 7:00.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmyXs7yJKd8&feature=related

November 15, 2009 on The Morning Call http://www.mcall.com/news/all-a8_5scout.7084728nov15,0,6238384.story In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than200 hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an East Allentown Park.Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees InternationalUnion, toldAllentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievanceagainst the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and bikingpath at Kimmets Lock Park.

November 3, 2009 at projo.comU.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith gave Nicholas Monocchio, a formerdirector of the Laborers’ New England Region Organizing Fund, three years’probation for accepting cash, liquor, rental cars and giftcertificates from anundercover FBI agent posing as a contractor seeking business in Rhode Island.---Manocchio is the nephew of Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio, who authoritiesdescribe as the longtime head of the Patriarca crime family. Luigi Manocchio wasconvicted of manslaughter in the 1980s for killing a man outside a NorthProvidence restaurant.

November 6, 2009 at CBS13 SacramentoA state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He saysmembers of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital allbecause he wanted to expose alleged corruption within the union.

November 12, 2009 at The New York Times

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A 2005 study estimates public workers earning 46% more in salary and benefitsthan comparable private workers. Last year public pay and benefits rose 3.1%compared to private at 1.9%.

In May the jobless rate for private workers was at 9% while the rate for publicemployees was 2.8%.

The article goes on talking about unions growing and gaining power and all themoney they have to prevent tax cuts.

June 11, 2009 at The Wall Street Journalhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB124458836591599769.htmlUnions in Debt“We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama,” declared Andy Stern last month,and the president of the Service Employees International Union wasn’t

exaggerating. The SEIU and AFL-CIO have been spending so much on politics thatthey’re going deeply into debt.

We might want to consider getting away from the free lunch program. Lunch isonly one dollar a day. Breakfast is 60 cents a day.

It makes me sick watching someone with lunch vouchers that I know drive a newEscalade.

Monday I got a robo-call from the school. If my kid does not have medical I cancall them and they will help me.

Please, we know that an illegal has illegal clients and that many of them makewell over $100,000 a year. We also know that an illegal has no right to work inour country and therefore has no proof of income. The schools can not checkillegibility when no income is reported. Who said there is no such thing as a freelunch?

Both Books should be available for public disclosure, Cortines’s and Duffy’s.Hey Duffy, if you want to interject your union into our government we want tosee your books too.

What would happen if the teachers went on strike? Would the charter schools beaffected too? Would the charter schools just carry on?

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This is for you poor saps that do not have any kids in school. Our schools sendhome a form to fill out for free lunches. They know that illegals have noverifiable income and will go for it. If a parent declines, they send home anotherand then again another. Then they have this robo-call where they call you withsome dumbass machine and ask you if you want them to help you with your

childs healthcare.

http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_14217638?source=rss

http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2010/01/19/why_kids_dont_do_well_in_school?page=full&comments=true

Black kids without fathers vs black kids with fathersAlso in ill/costs/welfare

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20100205/NEWS/100209908/1017/NEWS? p=all&tc=pgallAlabama Feb 5, 2010A drug bust that led to a find of a methamphetamine distribution led to tax fraud wherethese people were filing tax returns for illegal aliens, using stolen Social Security numbers,claimed the first time home buyer tax credit of $8,000 on non-existent homes.One example was an income of $6,000 last year receiving a return of $13,000.

http://www.laweekly.com/2010-02-11/news/lausd-s-dance-of-the-lemons/LA Weekly Feb 11, 2010LAUSDs Dance of the LemonsWhy firing the desk-sleepers, burnouts, hotheads and other failed teachers is all butimpossible.

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Los Angeles Unified School District, with its 885 schools and 617,000 students,educates one in every 10 children in California. It also mirrors a troubled nationalsystem of teacher evaluations and job security that U.S. Secretary of Education

Arne Duncan says must change. Recent articles in the Los Angeles Times havedescribed teachers who draw full pay for years while they sit at home fightingallegations of sexual or physical misconduct.

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But the far larger problem in L.A. is one of "performance cases" — the teacherswho cannot teach, yet cannot be fired. Their ranks are believed to be sizable —perhaps 1,000 teachers, responsible for 30,000 children. But in reality, nobodyknows how many of LAUSD's vast system of teachers fail to perform.Superintendent Ramon Cortines tells the Weekly he has a "solid" figure, but he

won't release it. In fact, almost all information about these teachers is kept secret.But the Weekly has found, in a five-month investigation, that principals andschool district leaders have all but given up dismissing such teachers. In the pastdecade, LAUSD officials spent $3.5 million trying to fire just seven of the district's33,000 teachers for poor classroom performance — and only four were fired,during legal struggles that wore on, on average, for five years each. Two of thethree others were paid large settlements, and one was reinstated. The averagecost of each battle is $500,000.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451851/posts

The latest government data (for the 2008 year) show that 53 percent of all householdsheaded by an immigrant (legal or illegal) with one or more children under age 18 used atleast one welfare program that year.

The source is the public use file of the March 2009 Current Population Survey collected bythe U.S. Census Bureau. (You can read an analysis of that data by Dr. Steven A. Camarotaat http://cis.org/Camarota/WelfareUseByImmigrants .)

How could Frank Sharry, a regular columnist with the Huffington Post, be so wrong?

Part of the reason is that supporters of high immigration, when talking about costs, like to pretend that immigrants don’t have children. In fact, if you don’t count the costs of children, the costs of immigration to taxpayers are quite low.

But that is a fantasy world. Immigrants have more than 1 million children born in the U.S.each year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Every penny of their costs to thegovernment are attributable to federal immigration policies.

I was at the LA Zoo yesterday and it was packed. I have never seen so many baby buggiesin one place. I took a quick count and there were 13 baby buggies within 10 feet of me.

And the languages, I was impressed by the diversity in languages. The LA Zoo really is anice place to take your kids, become a member and walk right in without waiting in line.

The part that bothered me was, do people really fly here to take their infants to the LAZoo? Or has the entire world heard about America’s touchdown babies?

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There is a new report that 53 percent of immigrant parents, both legal and illegal, takeadvantage of some kind of government welfare.

http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2010/02/16/the_problem_is_government_unions?page=full&comments=true

Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy’s seat as senator in Massachusetts and became the 41 st

Republican senator allowing the defeat of Obama’s appointment of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board.

Craig Becker, a union hack, had planned on doing away with secret balloting. He wanted toallow union thugs the ability to stand over you while you voted.

Also in this article, 51.4 percent of union employees work for the government.

The average federal worker makes $71,000. In DC they make $94,047.The number of federal employees making over $150,000 doubled in the last 18 months.The SEIU spent $500,000 to defeat prop 8.California Teachers Union spent $1,250,000 to defeat prop 8.After prop 8 was approved, over 50 unions pushed to have it overturned.

Bureaucratic Mess, here is something you will be interested in. Too bad I can’t say that for the rest of the readers.http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Reports/20100218followthemoneyacornseiuandtheirpoliticalallies.pdf Titled Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Follow the Money: ACORN, SEIU and their Political Allies-----------------------------------------------------------------------------OK, this is it. We have finally found a journalist in the name of Steven Malanga.http://city-journal.org/2010/20_2_california-unions.htmlAnyone else is just a pretender. This guy nails it by exposing the unions. If anyone ever votes for a candidate sponsored by a union after reading this

Next time somebody tells you we have a water shortage, just direct them to this water resource guide, it shows the reservoir conditions.http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action

The unions were behind this socialized healthcare passing. Without their knowledge,40,000 independent day-care workers found out that union dues were being withheld fromthe child-care subsidies the state sends them. And that is just for Michigan.

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The unions are behind this Green Jobs movement. It was the exposed communist in theWhite House, Van Jones, who made it his life mission to unionize inner city people of color thru Green Jobs. He wasn’t hiding his communist agenda, Obama was.

Nobody tells you that you can only get the material for motor magnets from China or that

China has stopped exporting the material and so the only place we can buy windmills isfrom China. This Green Movement where China pumps Acid into the ground to extractthese rare-earth materials, a process that would not be allowed here in the US, nor do theytell you about the people and children working 15 hour days staying in company

bungalows with 3 days off a month and only making 52 cents per hour.

Nobody tells you that you still have to have coal and natural gas generating stationsrunning to back-up still winds, nights and cloudy days. They don’t tell you that the windturbines in Altamont kill 10,000 birds a year including 80 Golden Eagles per year.

Andrew Sterns, the recently departed head of SEIU admits that illegal aliens are union

members and it is not his job to weed them out. Union jobs in the construction industry arehigh paying jobs at around $35 an hour, better than most engineering jobs. All thegovernment building is done by union workers.

Arizona’s immigration law.

Mayor Bloomberg: “new measure could hurt foreign investment”.Chuck Schumer: “mean spirited”.Bill DeBlasio: “un-American”.Al Sharpton will travel to Arizona to protest he measure. “an attempt to legalize racial

profiling”.Congressman Raul Grijalva (Arizona): “We’re going to overturn this unjust and racist law,and then we’re going to overturn the power structure that created this unjust, racist law”.Janet Napolitano: “It is not a good law in any number of reasons”. “That one is amisguided law. It’s not a good law, good enforcement law”. “But beyond that, what itillustrates is that other states now will feel compelled to do things”.Marco Rubio: for it. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2503319/postsKarl Rove: “I think there is going to be some constitutional problems with the bill.”Meg Whitman: “I think there’s just better ways to solve this problem.”Jeb Bush: “I think it creates unintended consequences.” “It’s difficult for me to imaginehow you’re going to enforce this law. It places a significant burden on local law

enforcement and you have civil liberties issues that are significant as well.”Campbell and Devore back Arizona immigration law;Fiorina supports law

John Boehner: “I think the people of Arizona have the right to pass their laws under the 10 th

amendment.”LA Chief Beck: “Special Order 40 is the mandate of this department…That is how I will

police this city as long as I am the chief of police”.

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Ok Jenna, this has been amusing, so I went and re-read your posts. You are a rabid union

loving socialist that wants a non-elected entity dictating who gets what and how much that person is to make. You want non-union people to pay for these union people, the moreunion people the merrier. You want those same non-union people to pay for illegal aliensand their kids, the more the merrier. If we have more illegal aliens and their kids then wecan afford more union people and therefore there will be a larger middle class. Ok, kind of scary thinking but I do believe that we are headed that way.

George Bush was a big government president running up a tab of $430B and that was a badthing.

Barack Obama is a big government president running up a tab of $1.2 Trillion and that is a

good thing.

Northrop Grumman is taking its $25 billion in contracts and moving out of Los Angeles,Mexico and going to Virginia, USA.

http://www.thewoodwardreport.com/

Immigration Laws in other countries.Phoenix Deputy Shot by Foreign Smuggler Congressman Duncan Hunter backs the deportation of American Born Illegal AlienChildren.Illegal hiring sting at Georgia Airport union construction project.100501 Real time government access to bank transactions100501 Funny pictures of Gay Obama , National Inquirer accusation of cheating.100501 Mexico, 22,000 murdered since Dec 2006 in drug war.100501 Phoenix Schools -The Arizona Department of Education recently began tellingschool districts that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed from classes for students still learning English.

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Andy Stern, A Member of Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Commission,Says ‘Worshipping the Market’ Has Failed America

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Tuesday, June 08, 2010By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

Andy Stern, former head of Services Employees International Union(SEIU) and a President Barack Obama appointee to the National

Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, said on Monday that the free market has failed the country and American workers. He

made his remarks at a conference of the Campaign for America'sFuture in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (CNSNews.com/Penny

Starr)(CNSNews.com) – Andy Stern, the former head of the Service Employees International Unionwho now sits on President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility andReform, said the United States needs an economic plan that does not include “worshipping”the free market.

“America needs a 21st century economic plan because we now know the market-worshipping,privatizing, de-regulating, dehumanizing American financial plan has failed and should never be revived, worshipping the market again,” Stern said in remarks at the annual conference of the liberal activist group Campaign for America’s Future in Washington on Monday.

“It has failed America and everyone that works here,” Stern said. Stern said the changes that Obama and Democrats in Congress have made are nothing shortof a “revolution” that will move the American economy from national to international.

"This not our father’s or our grandfather’s economy," Stern said. "We’re as far today from theNew Deal as the New Deal was from the Civil War. And we cannot drive into the future lookingin the rear view mirror."

He said the progressive movement must build on the past and look to the future as theeconomy is transformed "from a manufacturing base, to a service, finance, knowledge,

green , Internet, and bio-science economy."

“This revolution’s going to only take 30 years,” Stern said. “No single generation of peoplehave ever witnessed this much change in a single lifetime.

“American people sense the change,” Stern said. “They know something is different. “And they, like us, I think, are in search of a new pathway forward,” Stern said. “And as we’ve

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Andrew Stern has said he spends as much time in China as he does here in the US . Also,remember that he had the most visits to the Obama White House in the first 6 months of Obama’s presidency.

Van Jones, the communist, wants to unionize inner-city people to do green jobs. Take noteof Stern saying we want to get away from a manufacturing base economy and then you willsee why throughout this entire Topix I have been trying to draw your attention to the OneWorld Order these people are pushing on us.

Don’t just read this, STUDY IT!

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/67268June 7, 2010Penny Starr

Andy Stern, the former head of the Service Employees International Union who now sits onPresident Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, said the UnitedStates needs an economic plan that does not include “worshipping” the free market. “America needs a 21st century economic plan because we now know the market-worshipping,privatizing, de-regulating, dehumanizing American financial plan has failed and should never be revived, worshipping the market again,” Stern said in remarks at the annual conference of the liberal activist group Campaign for America’s Future in Washington on Monday.

“It has failed America and everyone that works here,” Stern said. Stern said the changes that Obama and Democrats in Congress have made are nothing shortof a “revolution” that will move the American economy from national to international.

"This not our father’s or our grandfather’s economy," Stern said. "We’re as far today from theNew Deal as the New Deal was from the Civil War. And we cannot drive into the future lookingin the rear view mirror."

He said the progressive movement must build on the past and look to the future as theeconomy is transformed "from a manufacturing base, to a service, finance, knowledge, green,Internet, and bio-science economy." “This revolution’s going to only take 30 years,” Stern said. “No single generation of peoplehave ever witnessed this much change in a single lifetime.

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“American people sense the change,” Stern said. “They know something is different. “And they, like us, I think, are in search of a new pathway forward,” Stern said. “And as we’vewitnessed now in the absence of a simple and realistic way forward, people – even us –

sometimes resist the future or try to turn back the clock to days that are now long gone.

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Lets go to the Dolores Huerta Labor Institutehttp://dhli.org/who-we-are

Dolores Huerta unionized farmworkers with Cesar Chavez in the 60s.

Dolores Huerta Labor Institute (DHLI) brings students and unions together to prepare for the new economy.

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