The Union News.: 2/9/11

2/9/11

Jimmah Obama

Lame-duck Barack Obama yearns for a Misery Index of his own

Image:

(from teamstersonline.com)

Related post:
"WH Meltdown Reported"

Progs ♥ Broken-Window Economics

Creeping socialism and the Law of Intended Collectivist Consequences

Video:

Up next: Modernization of both the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act, whose stated objective is woefully out-of-date -- the promotion of collective bargaining in America's workplaces

Video:

Bronx Cheer for Eugenicists

'Nother shoe drops; Planned disgrace a pervasive 'isolated incident'

Video:

Raw footage:

Obama Simplified

Overanalysis bedevils union-dense legacy-media defenders of lame-duck Admin

Cartoon:

Show-Me Thugs Take To The Ramparts

Forced-labor union activists all wee-weed up

Two different pictures of labor unions emerged today at a Senate hearing on whether Missouri should outlaw contracts that make union dues a condition of employment.

On one side: those who see the current membership rules as an infringement on individual freedom and a barrier to job creation. On the other: those who say unions provides a ready supply of trained workers and the backbone of the middle class.

Both sides inundated the Senate General Laws Committee today with economic studies and philosophical arguments in a hearing that packed two Capitol committee rooms and spilled into adjoining hallways.

The committee is considering a bill that would make Missouri the 23rd state to pass a “right-to-work” law.

The measure would bar employers and workers from negotiating contracts that include “union security” clauses. Such clauses require workers to pay union dues or an equivalent fee, or be fired.

(from stltoday.com)

Fake Jobs Report EXPOSED!

We're all funderemployed now, it's the New Normal!

Cartoon:

Leftwing Uprising v. America Set for 2012

WH operatives kindle H8, bank on domestic turmoil for re-election

Video:

Union Thugs Will Not Go Quietly

Forced-labor unionism a failed policy of the past

Unionization fails on nearly every measure. Yet strong-arm tactics keep these groups so firmly entrenched that many union-unfriendly lawmakers simply cannot afford to make the concessions required to loosen unions' hold and install worker choice.

This makes no sense. Unions are bad for growth. Now is not the time for entrenchment; now is the time for rolling up our sleeves and working as hard as we can. When a single policy objectively restricts economic growth as much as forced-unionization does, lawmakers should prioritize repealing that policy.

The WSJ concludes: "We hope Republicans don't flinch."

We cannot afford it.

(from washingtonexaminer.com)

Class struggle(in Marxist ideology) the conflict of interests between the workers and the ruling class in a capitalist society, regarded as inevitably violent.