Don't Drink the Tea. Think With the WE.
Aug
2011
1
Steven Lloyd was part of the 22% of military veterans who have come home to find themselves unemployed. He spent months unemployed, searching the Internet for job leads until he stumbled upon Helmets to Hardhats. His story, as told to ABC 4 in Salt Lake City, reflects that of many soldiers trying to make the ...
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Aug
2011
1
An article appearing on NWI.com shows that while Indiana Republicans argue that passing a Right-to-Work law (also known as Right-to-Work-at-McDonald’s) will help unemployed Indianans, the state actually has a lower unemployment rate than many of the states who currently have such laws in effect. A review of state unemployment data finds...
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Aug
2011
1
The long arm of the law gained extra strength points this week with the passage of the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, a mislabeled bill that will allow the government to collect information about every website everyone visits on the Internet. That is, unless you’re surfing Wi-Fi at Starbucks. The bill makes ...
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Jul
2011
31
Despite the fact that many of the unions overseeing America’s workers are international or multinational unions that represent and express solidarity with workers from Canada and other nearby nations, the politics of those nations are not often widely reported in the labor press of the U.S. In Canada, a particularly troubling political meme...
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Jul
2011
31
Investigations are ongoing into a La Cross, Wisconsin fire that destroyed several buildings including one which housed the We Are Wisconsin headquarters and a second which was home to Democrat Jessica Shilling’s campaign. We Are Wisconsin is an organization central to the recall effort being levied against State Senate Republicans. From the...
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Jul
2011
30
In recoveries before 1990, construction employment was always a contributor to economic growth, often a leading one. In part, that was because recessions were sometimes caused by the Federal Reserve pushing up interest rates. In an era when the rates that banks could pay on savings accounts were limited, that cut off the supply of ...
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Jul
2011
29
Indiana Commerce Secretary Mitch Roob has continued to lobby Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels for a Right-to-Work (RTW) law he claims will benefit the economy of the state. Daniels publicly asked lawmakers to drop the debate last session after Democrats staged a five week walkout in protest. Commerce Secretary Roob told a legislative panel looking...
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Jul
2011
29
Leave it to the brilliant media jokesters at The Onion to cover an incredibly important story more poignantly than any of the legitimate news media. In Al-Qaeda Claims U.S. Mass Transportation Infrastructure Must Drastically Improve Before Any Terrorist Attacks, The Onion writes satirically: In a 30-minute video released Thursday, al- Qaeda leader...
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Jul
2011
29
Recently, We Party Patriots reported a misleading study released by the Associated Builders and Contractors regarding the use of Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) for school construction projects in Southern California. The study received some press attention in San Diego, including a Sign On San Diego article which provided a relatively balanced...
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Jul
2011
29
It’s hard to tell if this mut has been watching too many Clint Eastwood films or if he’s just doing his best impersonation of Congressional possum playing. Either way, this fake death is pure comedy. Wait until Ridley Scott gets a load of this guy&#...
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Jul
2011
28
The San Diego blog Two Cathedrals wrote a blog post last week about more deceptive signature gathering in the Southern California county. We recently reported on misleading signature gathering by the Associated Builders and Contractors. The excerpt below exposes “Comprehensive Pension Reform” (CPR) efforts as being cut from the same...
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Jul
2011
28
In an “epic” resignation letter sent to Whole Foods Inc. that has turned up on Gawker.com, an unnamed former employee in Toronto trashes the corporation for being unfriendly to unions, going against their mission statement, and being uncool when he was 20 minutes late. Much of the letter, below, reads like a personal vendetta against ...
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