Archive for June, 2011
Curriculum Teaches Kindergartners to Unionize
This is one part of a running series entitled “Indoctrination Fridays,” a weekly review of leftist propaganda incorporated into public school curriculum and geared towards elementary students. For more of the series, please visit PublicSchoolSpending.com. In typical union and socialist propaganda, employers are depicted as cruel and uncaring business owners who never miss an opportunity [...]
Full StoryNon-Union Grocers Poised To Gain If UFCW Deploys M.A.D. Strike Strategy
In 2003, the United Food & Commercial Workers engaged in what turned out to be a 141-day labor dispute in which the union lost. While the dispute cost the supermarket chains hundreds of millions in sales during the strike, UFCW members were devastated. Now, nearly eight years later, the UFCW is ready to hit the [...]
Full StoryKids Doing the Unions’ Lobbying Dirty Work
There’s a great scene in Sudden Impact, the second Dirty Harry film, in which Harry Callahan “handles” all the criminals. But one bad guy, in the climax of the scene, decides to use a waitress as a human shield. “Go ahead, make my day,” Harry tells him. The criminal thought better and didn’t meet the [...]
Full StoryTennessee Trumps Wisconsin: Kills Teacher Collective Bargaining
To fix public schools, you have to control public schools. And there’s little control when teachers unions, with their self-serving agendas, question every cost-cutting proposal and reform on the table. That’s why so many state governments have taken swift action to limit the power of organized labor in public schools. Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Idaho and [...]
Full StoryUnion Price Tag Grows at a Cost to U.S. Taxpayer
By Molly Henneberg Union behavior and their bargaining power has been of intense interest in many states. As the country continues to work its way out of a recession and the unemployment level is still hovering at a high 9 percent, the additional costs of unions are again being scrutinized in Washington. Unlike state government [...]
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