http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/uniongoons/ en-us Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:55:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229657/posts 8:50 AM, Wednesday, April 15, Echo Park, a community adjoining downtown Los Angeles. This is unprecedented. Hence I am suspicious and for good reason as explained below. I am asking that others relate their experiences, especially in Los Angeles. Today, and never before today, all three garbage trucks have completed their rounds by 8:35 AM. Normally the green barrels are picked up first, between 6:30 and 7. Then the black or the blue considerably later -- sometimes after 2 PM. Today, the black barrels were picked up first beginning around 6 AM. This pattern has repeated regularly for as long... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229657/posts#comment Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:55:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218948/posts <p>PARIS (March 31) - Angry French workers facing layoffs at a Caterpillar factory detained four of their bosses Tuesday at the U.S. manufacturer's plant in the Alps and refused to let them leave the premises, union representatives said.</p> <p>It is the third time in several weeks that French workers have seized their bosses to protest job losses as a result of the global economic crisis.</p> AP via AOL News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218948/posts#comment Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:28:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201226/posts SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Newspaper Guild members at The Sacramento Bee agreed Friday to take pay cuts of up to 6 percent to save jobs at the 152-year-old paper. Members voted 65 percent to 35 percent to accept the deal, said Ed Fletcher, a reporter who heads the Guild's local at the Bee. Even with the pay cuts, Bee managers plan to cut 34 of the 268 Guild-covered positions in the editorial and advertising departments. Another 19 jobs would have been in jeopardy if the union had rejected the pay cuts. ''I think it was a very difficult decision for... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201226/posts#comment Sat, 7 Mar 2009 06:47:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198689/posts Here are the remarks (as prepared for delivery) that President Barack Obama spoke via video to the AFL-CIO executive Council in Miami today. At the very end of the speech, Obama made what all of labor hoped and expected: a promise to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, or 'card-check' for short. Here goes: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 44th Estate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198689/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 03:28:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179382/posts New York's largest Public Employee Union is AFSCME (American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees). It is one of the affiliated unions of the AFL/CIO. Today, an e-mail marked "urgent" was sent out to member employees urging them to contact their Senators right away to tell them how imperative it is that they vote "YES" on the Obamacratic spending bill. (I'll get to the contents of that e-mail in a moment). However, most interesting was a call to action at the AFSCME website, asking members to keep talk show host Rush Limbaugh from basking in the "satisfaction of sinking... Roman Around http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179382/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 01:48:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175046/posts President Barack Obama warmly welcomed trade union leaders into the White House as he reversed restrictions on organised labour set up by the Bush administration. Promising to "level the playing field" for workers, he offered the most pro-union sentiments heard from a US president for many years. "I do not view the labour movement as part of the problem. To me, it's part of the solution," said Mr Obama, who was accused of being a Socialist by the Republican Right during the election campaign. He was speaking at the launch of a Task Force for Middle Class and Working Families... Telegraph (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175046/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:52:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2164386/posts In the military it's called "mission creep." That is when you start out doing one thing and end up doing something that has nothing at all to do with what your main function is supposed to be. Unions in New Mexico have just shown mission creep, once again, because, for some reason, labor leaders in that state imagine it is their duty to tell government what sort of taxes should be invented for the citizens of Santa Fe. These so-called labor leaders have decided to urge government to institute a "transfer tax" on houses that they deem "too big" to... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2164386/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:50:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152560/posts Teachers unions routinely claim that the interests of students are their top priority. So we would be interested to hear how the Pennsylvania affiliate of the National Education Association explains the proliferation of teacher walkouts in the middle of the school year. According to a recent study by the Allegheny Institute, Pennsylvania is once again the worst state in the country for teacher strikes. No less than 42% of all teacher walkouts nationwide occur in the Keystone State, leaving kids sidelined and parents scrambling to juggle work and family, potentially on as little as 48 hours notice required by state... WSJ Opinion Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152560/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:04:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119321/posts Signs posted in front and beside mailboxes at a post office location where I dropped off mail tonight. If it was at the headquarters of the unions, that'd be one thing. But in this case, would this be considered federal property? Would it be considered election engineering since this is where people will be dropping off vote-by-mail ballots? Should I bother complaining to the post office and registrar of voters? Should I post another vanity? Enquiring minds yada yada... my camera http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119321/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:07:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065525/posts Members of the carpenters union in New York City have ruined any chance that authorities there will take their union out of government oversight by beating unconscious William Davenport, a union dissident running for office in the union. After an August 5 candidates forum, the candidate was beaten by members of the carpenters union audience outside a church. Outside a CHURCH! This thuggery along with continued Mob involvement, indictments and convictions on corruption of union members convinced Judge Charles S. Haight, Jr. not to release the union from government oversight.... Read the rest at Publiusforum.com... publiusforum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065525/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:42:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998815/posts BUFFALO, N.Y. - A dozen leaders and members of a construction union were arrested Tuesday and charged with a decade of attacks against nonunion workers and their families, and prosecutors said some of the crimes were aided by the local's access to state motor vehicle records. The president of Operating Engineers Local 17, Mark Kirsch, was among those charged with extortion and racketeering after a five-year investigation. The union, headquartered in Buffalo, operates in six western New York counties. At job sites where non-Local 17 members were hired, union members caused more than $1 million in damage to more than... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998815/posts#comment Wed, 9 Apr 2008 03:55:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909553/posts COMMITTEE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE P.O. Box 306, Cheltenham, PA 19012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2007 Contact: Don Adams, ###.###.#### Teamster Beating Victims Appeal Judge’s Order To Pay Union $15 Grand Philadelphia – Two Clinton protesters, viciously beaten up by a group of pro-Clinton teamsters outside Philadelphia’s City Hall during a presidential visit nine years ago, last week appealed a federal judge’s order to pay two teamster unions $15,000.00 in legal costs stemming from an October, 2000 Federal Civil Rights suit. Five members of Teamsters Local 115 eventually pled guilty to criminal assault, conspiracy, and various other charges in the... Committee for Constitutional Justice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909553/posts#comment Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:32:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893345/posts IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA   DON ADAMS, ET AL.,     PLAINTIFFS        v.   TEAMSTERS LOCAL 115, ET AL.,     DEFENDANTS   CIVIL ACTIONNO. 99-CV-4910   JUDGMENT AND NOW, this 4th day of Sept., 2007, judgment is hereby rendered in favor of defendant Teamsters Local 115 and against plaintiffs Don Adams and Theresa Adams in the amount of $450.10.   William H. Yohn, Jr., Judge IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA   DON ADAMS, ET AL.,     PLAINTIFFS        v.   TEAMSTERS LOCAL 115, ET AL.,     DEFENDANTS   CIVIL ACTIONNO. 99-CV-4910  ... U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893345/posts#comment Sun, 9 Sep 2007 03:11:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849812/posts TWO ripping issues in parliament yesterday - the leaking of the ACTU’s embarrassingly detailed blueprint for winning over swinging voters to Labor and John Howard’s misuse of Kirribilli House. We’ve provided a link to the entire ACTU document. It’s oafish and unprofessional and probably doesn’t help Kevin Rudd who’s determinedly fighting the Coalition assault painting Labor as too close to unions. ..... Here’s my take in The Sketch: “THERE is nothing surprising in this,” ACTU president Sharan Burrow protested on Melbourne radio, and mostly she was right. That the union movement is campaigning furiously to kick the Howard Government out... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849812/posts#comment Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:57:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839608/posts Indictment alleges Pacifica man stole $170,000, falsified records By Josh Richman, STAFF WRITERInside Bay Area Article Last Updated:05/25/2007 02:55:14 AM PDT A postal workers' union president from Pacifica was indicted Thursday on charges that he embezzled more than $170,000 and then fudged union and Labor Department records to cover it up. Graham Paul Vane, 49, was president of the San Mateo-based National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO, Branch 1280, from January 2002 through 2006 and allegedly used a union-issued credit card and 10 personal credit cards to rack up massive personal expenses such as dining, family travel, spa treatments,... Oakland Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839608/posts#comment Fri, 25 May 2007 12:07:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772621/posts A federal appeals court refused yesterday to revive civil-rights claims against Gov. Rendell, District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham, and Teamsters Local 115, part of a lawsuit filed eight years ago by a man who says he was beaten and falsely prosecuted after protesting a 1998 appearance by President Clinton. The opinion by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is likely the end of the federal suit filed by Don and Theresa Adams, although Adams has said he will press civil claims involving state law in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. Neither Adams, 46, of... Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772621/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:12:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765732/posts A teachers union told the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday it should have the right to spend workers' money for political purposes without their permission -- even if they aren't union members. The case involves about 3,000 Washington state teachers and other education employees who have chosen not to join the 80,000-member Washington Education Association. Because the nonunion workers are in the bargaining unit and thus represented by the union, they are charged a fee for labor negotiations that affect them. Washington state in 1992 adopted a campaign-finance law that requires labor unions to annually ask members whether part of their... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765732/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:37:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733422/posts With the midterm elections November 7, organized labor has been gearing up for its biggest political blitz ever. Since being rocked by internal divisions last year and failing to unseat President Bush in 2004, labor leaders have been eager to prove that unions still matter and that the labor ground game can deliver votes for the Democratic Party. Political observers believe that in some close races, labor could help swing this month’s midterm elections—an outcome the beleaugured union movement desperately desires. Although labor’s diminished power would probably not overcome a larger change in the national political currents, those currents seem... Capital Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733422/posts#comment Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:45:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599367/posts The 58-story Comcast Center rising over 17th Street is already destined to be Philadelphia's tallest and most environmentally friendly skyscraper. But its developer, Liberty Property Trust, dreams of claiming an even more prestigious title: America's tallest green building. Unfortunately, the city's quest for national glory may go down the drain of a waterless urinal. The local plumbers union is blocking Liberty's plan to install no-flush, water-saving urinals in the men's rooms at the Comcast Center. Without them, the finished skyscraper would guzzle an extra 1.6 million gallons of water a year, and Liberty could have trouble obtaining a coveted seal... Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599367/posts#comment Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:47:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542085/posts CHICAGO - A reputed mob enforcer who has been the focus of a nationwide manhunt since federal prosecutors unsealed racketeering-murder charges against the alleged top echelon of the Chicago underworld was arrested Friday, the FBI announced. Frank "The German" Schweihs, 75, was captured without incident when agents swooped down on an apartment he had recently rented in Berea, Ky., a hilly area 40 miles south of Lexington. Schweihs was one of two defendants who slipped away just before federal prosecutors in April unveiled the long-sealed indictment against reputed Chicago mob boss James Marcello and 13 others in the FBI's Operation... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542085/posts#comment Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:21:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524453/posts Protests turn violent near APEC venue By Jack Kim 36 minutes ago Thousands of farm activists and union workers hurled bottles in a clash with police near a meeting of Pacific Rim leaders on Friday and had to be quelled by water cannon. The clash broke out about two km (1.2 miles) from the convention center where leaders from 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies were meeting. About 2,000 farmers and farm activists and 3,000 union workers took to the streets of Pusan to denounce APEC, the World Trade Organization and U.S. President George W. Bush, who was attending the... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524453/posts#comment Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:11:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1512941/posts Previously I offered "True face of Democratic Party: union thugs attack woman at anti-Arnold rally": she had her cap pulled off, she was beaten with signs, and one of the security workers ripped up her signs. Now, speaking on KFI, the victim of the assault claims it was even worse than what was shown on TV. She says the pro-union forces also poured water on her head and threw things at her. And, she says that several TV stations must have filmed that. Yet, only a small - but highly disturbing - segment of the attack was shown on just... The Lonewacko Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1512941/posts#comment Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:38:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510862/posts Here is aan e-mail that I just received:Genvieve Peters (no relation), who I recruited for the LA bus tour team, is certifiably insane and brings new meaning to the phrase "earned media". Forget about the baloney delivery stunt, this one clearly takes the cake. When David Pegos tried to stage a counter protest today at the Latino union rally with Nunez and Villaraigosa in Downtown LA I put him in touch with Genvieve. She showed up in her red Arnold t-shirt with her signs ALL ALONE. Instead of going home (which I would have told her to do if the... mediadrool.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510862/posts#comment Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485412/posts An interesting thread by striking Northwest Airline mechanics at www.usaviation.com. The source URL takes you to the specific thread Evidently, they all think that this is the way to strike: They are all for it, including this pleasant little ditty: PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH Yesterday, 11:05 PM Post #26 Rank: Veteran Group: Registered Member Posts: 707 Joined: 10-October 03 Member No.: 2,790 The AMFA STRIKERS are being way too nice in my opinion. If this was the 1930's, that SCAB's house would have been torched! -------------------- TWU:THE UNION THAT INVENTED CONCESSIONS! Why RIDE the BUS? When you can FLY with AMFA UsAviation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485412/posts#comment Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:55:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478976/posts EMS & Hurricane KatrinaHurricane Katrina - Our Experiences By Parmedics Larry Bradsahw and Lorrie Beth SlonskySep 6, 2005, 11:59 note: Bradshaw and Slonsky are paramedics frorm California that were attending the EMS conference in New Orleans. Larry Bradsahw is the chief shop steward, Paramedic Chapter, SEIU Local 790; and Lorrie Beth Slonsky  is steward, Paramedic Chapter, SEIU Local 790.[California]Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreen's store at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing. The milk, yogurt,... EMS News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478976/posts#comment Wed, 7 Sep 2005 03:02:07 GMT