Protests Intensify Over Local Union Takeover By SEIU
November 30, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Jobs, News, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is still going ahead with its plans to perpetrate a hostile takeover of California local California Healthcare Workers union (UHW). Naturally, the local isn’t too happy to be forcefully dissolved and integrated into the SEIU national and losing their identity.
The UHW folks with their president Sal Roselli in the lead, are staging all sorts of protests and efforts to deny the SEIU its victory. Roselli has been a thorn in SEIU president Andy Stern’s side for quite a while now.
Union Prez Banned From Union For Life!
November 29, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Democrats/Leftists, Jobs, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Oh, the humanities! It has been determined by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) that troubled local president Tyrone Freeman is to be banned for life from the union. Gosh, what a horrible fate, eh? One wonders if he can be reinstated with back pay after he dies. Bet he does!
The Service Employees International Union has imposed a lifetime ban on the former president of its largest California local and ordered him to repay more than $1 million that it says he misappropriated from the labor organization.
Let me suggest a more appropriate punishment: jail.
Will Southern Dems Torpedo Themselves By Voting Card Check?
November 28, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Jobs, News, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Politico has some interesting analysis on the purported divisions among Democrats going into the future. They may have majority control of Congress on its face, but do they have enough of a controlling majority to push through some of their most egregiously extreme measures like the pro-union card check idea contained in the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)?
According to Politico the “fault lines” in the Democratic caucus are soon to be revealed.
Unless Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) can whip their caucuses into unity, numerous fault lines will be revealed: Southern Democrats vs. Northern liberals on labor law; California greens vs. Rust Belt Democrats on global warming; socialized medicine adherents vs. go-slow health care reformers; anti-war liberals vs. cautious centrists on national security. And don’t forget the anti-bailout crowd vs. the powerful Michigan Democrats in both chambers when it comes to money for Detroit.
Martin Kady goes on to elucidate those divisions, one of them being the card check issue. Of course, we’ve discussed card check here many times, but essentially if passed it would eliminate any potential union member from having the right to vote for or against a union on a secret ballot, making the member’s vote open for everyone to see. This would leave the member open to any sort of union pressure and thuggery, for sure.
Why Google lost the formal debate over its ethics — And a compendium of Google’s ethical lapses
November 28, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Google, Inernet, Media Bias, News, Privacy, Publius Contributor, Scott Cleland, Society/Culture, Technology, The Law | 1 Comment
-By Scott Cleland
Google effectively lost its first formal debate over whether “Google violates its own ‘Don’t Be Evil’ motto” at the Rosenkranz Foundation’s Oxford-style debate in New York City, November 18. (Transcript here)
Before the debate the audience was polled and voted 21% against Google and 48% for Google; after gathering additional insight from the debate, 47% voted against Google and 47% voted for Google. Apparently, most all of the undecideds voted against Google — that Google violated their own ‘don’t be evil’ motto.
What does this mean?
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Fed. Employee’s Labor Chief’s Demands Presented to Obama
November 25, 2008 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Business, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Corruption, Jobs, News, President, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
And it begins. President of the National Treasury Employees Union, one of the Federal government’s largest labor unions, has drawn up her demands for president-elect Obama to fulfill as payback for union support for his candidacy.
Colleen M. Kelly has announced her demands and two of them are quite controversial. The first, that the employees of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) get unionized, shows that unions want to be in a place to impede our national security. The second, the firing of all current members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel, shows that unions want to eliminate any oversight that might hinder union corruption and give them a freer hand to hide their own illegal activities.
Thus far, the Bush administration has succeeded in stopping the unionization of employees of the TSA and for good reason. Should the TSA be unionized, this would eliminate any possibility that the government could fire or even regulate the people that are supposed to be making sure our airlines are safe and free of terrorists. This would not only add another layer of distance between government (and therefore we the people) and its employees, but it would also make it harder to control the security of our airports. In fact, it would make it impossible for government to control the safety of our airports.
Another Example of Hypocritical Politics on Secret Ballots
November 24, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, News, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
As the Democratic caucus angles to pass the badly named Employee Free Choice Act, a law that will actually take away the choice of a secret ballot for millions of America’s workers, we get one more example of how Democrats in Congress allocate things for themselves that they refuse to allow others to enjoy.
In the nasty infighting between Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) and John Dingell (D., Mich.) over the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce committee in the House of Representatives, a secret ballot was held of the members of the House after which, Waxman came out the victor.