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In this issue:
• Union Bailout Update • Occupy Does Union Bidding in Port Protests • UAW Not Targeting Nissan, Much • Teamster $150K Club • Scoreboard, SEIU Watch, Sticky Fingers and more…
Union Bailout Update
Breaking News:
President Obama announced late Wednesday evening that he plans to nominate two lawyers to the National Labor Relations Board. The Board will no longer be able to issue decisions or create major new rules without a three member quorum and Craig Becker’s recess appointment ends on Dec. 31.
The president will nominated Sharon Block, deputy secretary for congressional affairs at the Department of Labor, and Richard Griffin, who is the general counsel for the International Union of Operating Engineers. Both would be considered
Continue reading INK December 15, 2011
Paul Munsch is the owner of St. Louis Paving in St. Louis, Missouri. He and his employees have faced years of bullying by the union.
  
In this issue:
Union Bailout Update Disability Fund “Rail Roaded” Pelosi Admits Anti-Boeing Bias SEIU Decert At California Hospital Teamsters Watch, Only In A Union, Sticky Fingers and more…
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Union Bailout Update
The groundswell of blowback against union hubris continues to rise, as both state and national legislators and executives work to reign in Big Labor. As the game of political tug-of-war continues, much of the energy will lapse into rhetoric, but there may be enough momentum now to see some benefit for American businesses come out of the bottom of the funnel.
Cantor
Last week, the House Committee on Education
Continue reading INK November 3, 2011
If something looks like a pig, smells like a pig and acts like a pig chances are pretty good it’s a pig regardless of what it’s calling itself this week. And this week the pig’s name is Showdown in America and it sure does smell like populous outrage cooked up around a conference table at SEIU International HQ.
May 24th, 2011 | Tags: seiu, service employees, union tactics, YouTube | Category: YouTube |
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 Just because everyone needs a break from the assault on the middle class we’d like to draw your attention to two fun and exciting union contests!
To start, you only have ten days to vote for your favorite in the Labor Video of the Year contest over at Talking Union, a website run by the Democratic Socialists of America.
Finalists include:
“Honeywell – Experience Matters” — a cautionary tale on the toxic mix of child labor and radioactive isotopes from the Steelworkers.
“Workplace Democracy Corporate Style” — (our favorite!) an expose’ on what really goes on in captive audience meetings. (minus the water boarding) (This video can also be used as a management drinking game – one shot for every ULP committed.)
“Refusal of
Continue reading Just for Fun: Union Contests!
 In fairness to these kids, times are pretty tough right now for liberal arts post-grads. (And it’s no secret SEIU is always hiring!) We’re only embarrassed for Labor Notes that, as serious journalists, they didn’t suspect any connection between the earnest young rebels of the United Students Against Sweatshops and that despotic peasant crushing war machine, SEIU.
Labor Notes would have us believe that free thinking, bleeding-hearted USAS members on five campuses (Emory, Tulane, William and Mary, Rutgers and the University of Wisconsin) in some moment of concurrent collective higher consciousness spontaneously rose up to take over their college presidents’ offices in protest of the brutal treatment of university food service workers by… Sodexo.
Grant you, it all must seem more grassrooted and affirming to Labor Notes if these
Continue reading SEIU Watch: College Unrest
The Minnesota Nurses Association is one union to watch when it comes to social media organizing and any employer still complacent about social media organizing should take notice. In an MNA SlideShare presentation, the union lays out how it uses Facebook to network and engage not just its members, but patients, celebrities, politicians and the general public. Facebook also allows the union to share stories, flyers and videos with members, the media and a complex web of union friendlies during campaigns. It’s also worthwhile to see how the union dominates media coverage in this YouTube video.
Be sure to visit the LRI Union Free YouTube Channel to view this and other entertaining and informative videos.
When AFSCME made Dawn Bobo an offer she couldn’t refuse this Wisconsin grandmother stood her ground and in the process built up her starter business.
Be sure to visit the LRI Union Free YouTube Channel to view this and other entertaining and informative videos.
 On Monday in LA, SEIU raised the bar for dumbest waste of dues by sending a “flash mob” of SEIU staff (and staff wanna-bes) to eight different area businesses they labeled “bad actors” including Target, JP Morgan Chase, McDonalds and Chipotle. It appears SEIU intends to somehow shape corporate practice by publicly humiliating its own staff members. ( Perhaps as a team building exercise? ) Just imagine the union outrage if Chipotle or Chase demanded their employees dance around on street corners in plastic garbage bags and zombie makeup in order to keep their jobs!
Be sure to visit the LRI Union Free YouTube Channel to view this and other entertaining and informative videos.
There’s just nothing like a union turfwar to shed light on how they all really do business. In this very informative video Mark Ayers, president of AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades, hauls off on the Carpenters Union. (It’s also fun counting his creepy Godfather-esque references to “family”!)
Be sure to visit the LRI Union Free YouTube Channel to view this and other entertaining and informative videos.
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