behindbluelines.com - 6/1/2009
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I’m re-publishing this post from shortly after the 2008 election. It seems all the more prescient in view of Chrysler’s and GM’s ‘restructuring’ - done to award both companies to Hope ‘n Change and his union allies.
What we’re now seeing is the ...
Union employees go on strike … against the union
hotair.com 3/19/2009 — In the Someone Left The Irony On Department, the SEIU has a new problem besides Democratic defectors on Card Check. A planned layoff has a union local filing a complaint with the NRLB over unfair labor practices and accuses the employer of bypassing ...
Iran 2009 vs. USSR 1991 - A Study in Contrasts (and Leadership)
harrisonprice.com 6/24/2009 — USSR in 1991.
There have been plenty of cries from Obama Defenders that his silence (until yesterday sort of) was the wise and prudent thing to do… as if not waiting the entire weekend to make a strong statement would have somehow caused Iran’s mullahs to blame America for their ...
Just 9% of Non-Union Workers Want to Join Union
rasmussenreports.com 3/16/2009 — Union members tend to believe that most workers want to join a labor union. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 47% of union members hold that view while only 18% disagree. But those who don’t belong to a union hold a ...
Internationalist House of Pancakes: I.F. Stone and the KGB
reason.com 5/7/2009 — Since historians John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev revealed that their forthcoming volume Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press) would contain archival documentation linking journalist I.F. Stone ...
Mr. Greenwald Gets a Letter… and Writes One
firedoglake.com 5/4/2009 —
photo by Kzitelman
Glenn Greenwald got an email this morning:
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2009 9:10:55 AM GMT -02:00 Mid-Atlantic Subject: Your "Izzy" Award
Mr. Greenwald:
It has come to our attention that on March 31 you accepted ...
Robert Schlesinger: State of the Union Trivia
huffingtonpost.com 2/24/2009 —
I had forgotten, but other new presidents have given don't-call-it-a-State-of-the-Union addresses -- Reagan, Clinton and both Bushes gave early-term speeches to Congress that were explicitly billed not as States of the Union.
Of course the States of the Union speech was not always ...
TaxPayersFor CommonSense: "State by State Breakdown of Earmarks"
taxpayer.net 3/20/2009 — March 13, 2009 Update: Version 5 is now available. (Download it here) This version includes member state and party, and also allows for a partisan tabulation of who got how many earmarks. We did not try to parse an earmark among parties; we only ...
Union workers would be exempt from Dem health care tax
washingtonexaminer.com 6/25/2009 — The best chance for compromise legislation on health care may be a plan under construction in the Senate Finance Committee that would pay for a public plan in part by taxing some worker health benefits. But the union workers who helped Democrats win ...
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