Archive for the ‘Unions’ Category

Richard Trumpka Polishes his “Cadillac” Health Plan

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 ...

Public-sector Unions Bleed Taxpayers to Help Democrats

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 ...

Scrap the Map:  Bill Would End Subsidies to Promote Agricultural Products

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. ...

AFL-CIO, PSEA Join Forces

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 ...

Mike Fitzpatrick/Jim Cawley: Global Warming & Card Check

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 ...