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Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) hasn’t taken a vote in the Senate yet but the government union bosses are already trying to intimidate him.
Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) hasn’t taken a vote in the Senate yet but the government union bosses are already trying to intimidate him.
Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) hasn’t taken a vote in the Senate yet but the government union bosses are already trying to intimidate him.
Straight from the horse’s mouth on why the Becker nomination is so critical. Stewart Acuff of the AFL-CIO declares, “It (sic) we aren’t able to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, we will work with President Obama and Vice President…
Racing against the clock, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pushed through another Obama Big Labor nominee, Patricia Smith, before Senator-Elect Scott Brown becomes a Senator. Reid won this race, see the Senate votes here. In addition, Reid is prepared to add radical SEIU & AFL-CIO lawyer, Craig Becker to the list of Obama nominees approved before Senator Brown arrives. As the new U.S. Solicitor of Labor, President Obama’s nominee M. Patricia Smith will control the largest civilian pool of government lawyers after the Justice Department. Then New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer appointed Smith Commissioner of the New York State Department of Labor (NYDOL). Having spent her entire working life as a government employee, Smith brings only bureaucratic experience to the table. As NYDOL Commissioner, Smith used her position and federal funds to override a state hiring freeze to hire a politically connected union organizer as a state employee.
The Washington Examiner catches the Senate rushing pro-labor agenda items to the floor before Senator-Elect Scott Brown is sworn into the esteemed body: … the Senate is again trying to perform as many favors for Big Labor as it can before newly…
Unions have gotten on the "green jobs" porkwagon. The federal government is handing out grants for jobs in the environmental field and unions are monopolizing that space. From Human Events: One of the more startling revelations at the forum came in testimony from Stephen Worth, President & CEO of Worth and Company, a merit shop mechanical contractor out of Pipersville, Pennsylvania, currently employing more than 400 people. Amid testimony of union harassment and exclusion from contracting bids was a startling revelation of union methods to monopolize “green jobs” through illegitimate and discriminatory regulatory definition. “‘Green jobs’ is a phrase being used to describe work that is environmentally friendly, both inside and outside the construction industry,” Worth told the forum. “However, there is no agreed-upon definition. Currently, organized labor is attempting to define ‘green jobs’ as positions held by workers that receive special green training through union-only apprenticeship programs.”
Colorado voters oppose the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill like the rest of the nation.
SEIU boss Andy Stern says the Senate “acted like terrorists” in passing the health care bill. Let’s get this straight — the Senate passed a bill that unionizes hundreds of thousands of health care workers on behalf of Mr.
The Committee was forwarded an e-mail that, in part, read: We have just learned from our contacts in Washington that the HELP committee [U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions] has postponed other scheduled business and will conduct…