Posted on 06/29/2009 6:06:07 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Union thug Andy Stern brags about his access to the White House. Why not? It’s good to be the king’s friend.
Stern’s friendship with the king is really paying off. Obama has made few cuts in his 2010 budget, but took an axe to the funding for the agency charged with enforcing laws broken by union thugs.
The Department of Labor’s Office of Labor Management Standards’ (OLMS) budget was cut 9%. At a time when all of us are tightening our belts and bracing for more budget cuts, the United States government is the only large employer still hiring.
The OLMS is the office of the Department of Labor that investigates union corruption allegations and puts Andy’s pals in federal prison.
Federal budgets are large and growing save for OLMS’s, so why aren’t we being bombarded with the “good news” of a government budget cut?
The lap dog media won’t report this cut because it doesn’t want us to realize this is one budget that shouldn’t be reduced.
The OLMS is a victim of its own success on our behalf. Over the last 8 years it has convicted more than 900 union thugs for a variety of crimes including embezzlement.
The work of the OLMS has also returned over 91 million stolen dollars to rank and file union members. Now these cuts have put a serious drag on the agency’s ability to fight for clean unions, but of course this is exactly the reason for the cuts.
No other sub-budget of the Department of Labor was touched. In fact at least one other subdivision of Labor received an 18% increase: the Wage and Hour Division which enforces the ridiculous 12 week leave for workers.
If this was a movie about how gangsters took over America how would things be different?
(Excerpt) Read more at collinsreport.net ...
Straight outta Ayn Rand’s novels.
Why is there “the” union? Why can’t another group of people start a “union” at a work place to compete with “the” union? Who says there is just THE union and how written in stone is it? My thought is that if there is some way to make one’s own group in various aspects of life then we would be “unions” and get all those benefits. If this is really stupid for some reason please forgive.
Yep, and they aren’t afraid to be open about it.
I'm not aware of any legal restriction, but unions wouldn't seem to like competition, and when your new union followers start finding their dogs killed or their children accosted by adult strangers who tell them to remind Daddy to be careful on his way to work...you may find enthusiasm for this new alternative union a bit lacking.
Is that what union members are ? Thugs ??
I notice this guy Stern described as “Union thug Andy Stern”.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06152007/profile3.html
Same guy, right ?
Putting together his soviets....
Rob Peter to pay Paul and you can always count on Pauls’ support.
“Is that what union members are ? Thugs ??
I notice this guy Stern described as “Union thug Andy Stern”.
Unions engage in negotiations but when management does the same thing it’s call price fixing and somebody gets a fine or a ticket to prison. Of course he’s a union thug. Actually extortionist is a better term.
>Actually extortionist is a better term.<
they despise being called that, and if you do it again, they will have your legs broken
Noting your admirable backgound, I imagine you must have been the beneficiary of some collective bargaining when you were on the job.
Did that make your reps “thugs” ?
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