Remember when the teachers in Central Falls, Rhode Island refused to make minimal changes in order to save their highly-paid, cushy jobs (which were apparently to fail to teach kids how to do things like read and write) until they got firedWell, the whole city is now "fired" thanks to similar circumstances with the rest of the unionized city ( Read more... )

Governor Walker's reforms have borne fruit: hundreds of jobs have been saved across the state and the only schools that have been shut down are those that foolishly trusted unions to keep their word.
“We laid off 27 [teachers] as a precautionary measure,” Koczela told me. “They were crying. Some of these people are my friends ( Read more... )

The reason: their union-created health insurance company plans cost more than public health insurance plans, so they've blocked attempts to switch and save money.
Hartland - Teachers in the Hartland-Lakeside School District have agreed to switch health insurance providers to save the district $690,000, but the executive committee of a union that ( Read more... )

By declaring war on right to work states he's ceding the south to Republicans. (Assuming the Republicans nominate someone capable of running a decent campaign.)


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WTF? The NLRB is suing Boeing for opening up a plant in a right to work state. Apparently economic slavery is not just being quietly implemented by the Obama administration any more but has become an open policy enforced by the police powers of the state.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a complaint against the Boeing Company ( Read more... )

One of the lessons of history is that socialists will use unions as street gangs to achieve their totalitarian goals. Nothing exemplifies that more in the United States than the scourge known as SEIU.

Not only does this union use criminal methods to achieve its goals, it also plots to destroy the economy of the United States in order to further ( Read more... )

Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, sent a letter to businesses "asking" for their support against Governor Walker and stating that unless they replied in the affirmative they would be assumed to be an enemy and a target of a "boycott". (Gee, how would the police "boycott" you, hmmmm ( Read more... )

It's amusing that the Democrats claim to be shocked (shocked, they say!) that the Wisconsin Senate voted on changes for unions and that the Republicans somehow "hid" their plans from everyone ( Read more... )

As is usual with large gatherings of liberals, the suppression of free speech is at the head of the agenda. One of the primary targets is Fox News, of course.

Denying the truth of reports from Fox News (and other non-liberal outlets) goes hand in hand with trying to suppress the broadcasts, of course ( Read more... )

When the left claimed that because certain companies that manufactured voting machines also contributed to President Bush it was proof that Bush was stealing the election?

Not a peep from the left about SEIU having a contact to "fix" voting machines.

I think we all know how SEIU is going to interpret "fix", right? ;)

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