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Category Archives: unions
Morning Awful: House of Orange
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Share the post “Morning Awful: House of Orange”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailJohn Boehner is really, really bad at his job. His own caucus hates his transportation bill. He’s tried three different approaches, each of them worse than the last. His latest iteration would gut … Continue reading
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Unions as a Rational Response
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Share the post “Unions as a Rational Response”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail My friend Todd Farally wrote a DailyKos diary about his union shop: One of my brothers in Local 19 who we’ll call Jim (not his real name) told me his wife went … Continue reading
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One Of These Things Is Exactly Like The Others
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Share the post “One Of These Things Is Exactly Like The Others”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Magic Love Hose makes comics for OsborneInk.com. He lives in Canada where he can lob grenades into America’s political process from Minimum Safe Distance. This is his Twitter. … Continue reading
Posted in Kulturkampf, unions, voting, Webcomix
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I Am On The Side Of Verizon Workers
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Share the post “I Am On The Side Of Verizon Workers”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailDuring the recovery, American companies turned to sucking their own blood. By laying off workers, making the rest do more, and using interns as unpaid labor, CEOs claimed the savings … Continue reading
The Union Agenda
Share the post “The Union Agenda”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailWho needs card check? The National Labor Relations Board will revamp the rules on union votes: The board’s most recent annual report says 1,619 unionization elections were held in fiscal year 2009, with unions winning … Continue reading
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Improvise, Adapt, Overcome, Unionize
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Unions have to adapt to the new theater of conflict, which is the whole world – if they don’t, then they will be flanked and outgunned and blamed for problems they are meant to solve, but aren’t large enough to. Continue reading
Posted in Divide and Conquer, globalization, Guest Blog, Kulturkampf, union busting, unions
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Beck Praises Nurses, Trashes Their Union
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Share the post “Beck Praises Nurses, Trashes Their Union”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailGlenn Beck was hospitalized with appendicitis on Wednesday. Thursday, he tweeted praise for his “AMAZING drs/nurses” — even though the nursing staff are members of a union Beck despises. Alexander Zaitchik explains … Continue reading
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Let Them Eat Cake
Share the post “Let Them Eat Cake”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSo just days after Bank of America Corp. got another $25 billion bailout from the taxpayer, they used some of that money to hold a conference call with business leaders and conservative activists. The … Continue reading
