Archive for the ‘Unions’ Category
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
This is the face of EFCA, the misnamed Employees’ Free Choice Act, known as “Card Check”. AFL-CIO Union Organizer President Richard Trumpka, originally from Washington County, southwest Pennsylvania, coal mining country. The Unions, who are, as you know, for the “little guy” protected the “little guy’s” Cadillac Health Plan. Note ...
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Private Sector Unions versus Public Sector Unions: Texas versus the rest of the country. Right to Work and Card Check will be, in my opinion, key issues in Pennsylvania gubernatorial and Senate election
“Public-sector unionism is a very different animal from private-sector unionism. It is not adversarial but collusive. Public-sector unions ...
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
Republican Representative Scott Garrett of New Jersey is solid fiscal conservative and is opposing, along with Pennsylvania Democrat Patrick Murphy, ending corporate welfare subsidies to agricultural businesses.
“The "Scrap the MAP" legislation, announced by Patrick Murphy and Scott Garrett, would end the Market Access Program.
A bill in the U.S. ...
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Friday, April 30th, 2010
The AFL-CIO of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania's largest public teacher union, the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) formalized a labor solidarity agreement at the PSEA headquarters Tuesday (March 9, 2010). This juggernaut of money and manpower can move elections in a way that no other group can. These people are organizational ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Significantly, Jim Cawley, see JrJim for details on who Jim Cawley is, was Mike Fitzpatrick’s campaign manager in 2004 and Mike Fitzpatrick’s 2006 co-sponsorship of a Global Warming bill called “Safe Climate Act” and, of course , co sponsorship of Card Check are anti-thetical to Constitutional Tea Party Republicans. Mike Fitzpatrik ...
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