It is time to stop stealing the pension funds of firemen and teachers and nurses. It is time for real Americans to stand up. It is time to give the 1%, the 3 million people out of 300 million who take home 55%…55%…of all income in this country to start paying back what they and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'union-busting'
It Is Time to Balance the Budget on the Backs of the Rich
March 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Education, Labor, Politics
Tags: balancing the budget·budget deficits·Neconservative Republican governors·raise taxes on rich·Tax cuts for billionaires·tax the rich·union-busting·Wisconsin demonstrations
Why Governor Walker and the Neocons Hate Unions
March 12th, 2011 · Comments Off · Education, jobs, Politics, taxes
The Neocon Republicans believe that government should intrude in our lives when it comes to religion and abortion and tax cuts for the rich and guns not only for hunting but for hunting people clearly dislike programs to put people to work. The reason they don’t want to put people to work is their Faustian [...]
Tags: attacks against teachers·education bashing·Neocon fiscal policies·Neocon governors·New neoconservative governors·New Republican governors·Tea Party Governors·teacher bashing·union-busting
Union-busting in Wisconsin
February 18th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Human Rights, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
There is a strong game plan abroad in the land to bust unions. Most unions these days are for government workers. So the new Neocon Republican governors are out to break those unions, in Ohio, and New Jersey and Florida, and most prominently in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker the Governor of Wisconsin only since November [...]
Tags: attacks on public employee unions·Charles Koch·Governor Chris Christie·Governor John Kasich·Governor Rick Scott·Governor Scott Walker·health benefits·Karl Rove·Koch Industries·Neocons·penalizing teachers and government workers.·public employee unions penalized·state deficits·teacher unions·teachers·union-busting
Imported Americans — Part Two
February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics, Populism
The turn of the century saw the African American as largely uneducated, not owning the place he lived, without education, working as a sharecropper or on a tenant farm or in some menial job. While the second half of the 20th Century would see major improvements in voting rights, job opportunities, social services and particularly [...]
Tags: Neocons·Neoconservatives·Right Wing·slavery·tea party·union-busting·wage slaves
Jobs, Wages and the Urgent Need for Unions
May 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
Where are the jobs? And where is new union legislation? We need both and we need them now. We have a minimum of 15 million people out of work. We have an economy that created 230,000 jobs in March and 290,000 in April and unemployment still went from 9.7% to 9.9%. But what about the [...]
Tags: Employee Free Choice Act·job creation·jobs·Labor·unemployment·union avoidance consultants·union organizing·union-busting·unions·wage restrictions·wages