unions
Live Occupy Wall Street Video of Today’s Big Labor/Liberal Protests
Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com From the Official Ocupados’ website, here’s the list of today’s unions and such: AFL-CIO (AFSCME) United NY Strong Economy for All Coalition Working Families Party TWU Local 100 SEIU 1199 CWA 1109 RWDSU Communications Workers of America CWA Local 1180 United Auto Workers United Federation of Teachers [...]
Whole Lot of Unions Joining NYC Wall Street Occupation
The hundreds of hardcore Occupy Wall Street protesters are getting a whole bunch of new moral and physical support support starting today, as all kinds of big unions and professional liberal groups finally start showing up. The AP reports: The protests on Wall Street, the fabled center of American commerce, are expected to swell with [...]
Famous Progressive Scott Walker Declares ‘Employee Recognition Day’
Uh oh, progressive governor Scott Walker would like to say “thank you” to the men and women who work in public service. That can’t be good. He wants you to send him the names, personal contact information, and places of work of certain state employees. So he’s finally finished those gas chambers he was working [...]
Florida Governor Desperately Wants To Be Scott Walker, Fails Miserably
Republican governors are deeply envious of union-bustin’ blowhard Scott Walker and all of his delicious campaign Koch-tributions. Especially Florida governor Rick Scott! Sometimes Rick Scott fantasizes about skinning Scott Walker and then making a body suit out of the skin, so that he can have something nice to wear for important occasions (like the Royal [...]
Scott Walker Admits Union-Busting Bill Will Save Wisconsin Zero Dollars
Remorseless gasbag Scott Walker visited our nation’s swamp capital yesterday, and somehow found time to testify in front of Congress and strip the cherry blossoms of their collective blossoming rights. As expected, Walker wowed the crowd with all his fancy Koch-ing points, bragging that Wisconsin’s “collective bargaining reforms save local governments more than $700 million [...]
Michigan GOP Looking To Revoke All Teachers’ Licenses If They Strike
Michigan Republicans came in a little late to Wisconsin’s union-arson party, but they’re uncovering innovative new ways to wage war on their state’s working population. Today’s weapon: a plan to revoke the teaching license of the state’s educators if their unions go on strike at any time. Under existing law, teachers aren’t even legally allowed [...]
GOP Hack Suggested Using False-Flag Attacks To Discredit WI Unions
Lady Liberty cried quietly in her room with a pint of chocolate ice cream after hearing that an Indiana prosecutor and GOP activist sent USDA certified organic asshole Scott Walker a friendly email, urging him to “employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions’ cause to physically attack you (or even use [...]
Wisconsin’s M&I Bank Fears Bank Run By Union Supporters, Shuts Doors
Haha, afraid much? M&I Bank’s branch on the Capitol Square, at 1 W. Main St., closed Thursday after demonstrators, protesting campaign contributions by bank executives to Gov. Scott Walker, gathered outside the bank and several pulled their money out. Sara Schmitz, a spokeswoman for M&I in Milwaukee, said in an e-mail the bank shut its [...]
Wife of Adulterous WI Senator/Union Breaker Joins Recall Against Him
One of Scott Walker’s top orcs in the union-busting thuggery, Republican Randy Hopper, was thrown out by his wife and is now shacked up in Madison with a 25-year-old right-wing lobbyist who (of course) formerly worked with Hopper as a legislative aide (writing law for Hopper’s corporate backers). And now Hopper’s wife has joined the [...]
Wisconsin Assembly Finishes State Senate’s Union Busting
Wisconsin’s GOP/teabagger leadership broke the backs of the labor unions! (Until it’s all overturned in court, months or years after the Great Civil War that will hopefully reduce America to a Great Smoking Rubble Pit between Canada and Mexico.) Here’s the news bulletin: “Wisconsin lawmakers have voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from [...]
Chris Christie Responds To Rampant Speculation He Is ‘Hot and Sexy’
“Wanta dah moolee-rah, Han Solo,” the Hutt said. Meanwhile, while you are transfixed by the thought of take a magic sex bus journey into those undulating folds, Chris Christie is telling lies so he too can screw the union workers of his state.
Scenes From a War: Madison After the Union-Busting Bill
Well, they did it — probably unconstitutionally, certainly amorally, but the Wisconsin state senate Republicans crammed through their union-crushing bill tonight, and the response wasn’t very happy from the union workers and protesters and plain decent people of Wisconsin (and beyond) gathered for so long in Madison.
Wall Street Journal Going To End This Wisconsin Standoff Itself
Times are tough for journalists covering the standoff over collective bargaining in Wisconsin. Just how many days in a row are you supposed to write this “There are still protests and the state senators are still floating on a lazy river at some hotel in Illinois” story? The protestors and the legislators may be able [...]
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