Why Democrats are Pushing the $165 Billion Union Pension Bailout
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:43:00 AM
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| Why Democrats are Pushing the $165 Billion Union Pension Bailout by LaborUnionReport Somewhere lurking in the hot, putrid halls of Congress this summer is a union bailout bill of epic proportions and long-term ramifications. Whether or not Democrats can ultimately push it (or something like it) into passage is yet to be determined. However, with rumors that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) signed on as a co-sponsor on Thursday, it would appear that the union bailout is quietly creeping along. If it passes, though, its ramifications surpass the mere $165 billion-plus price tag, as it will influence the political landscape for... |
Ex-union Official Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement (MN)
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:43:00 AM
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| A former labor union official from Albert Lea has pleaded guilty to embezzling $35,000 from his union. The U.S. Attorney's office says 39-year-old Cory Carroll pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of theft and embezzlement from a labor organization. Carroll was secretary-treasurer of the Regional and Shortline General Committee of Adjustment at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. He was indicted in April. In his plea agreement, Carroll admitted that from February 2007 to March 2009, he stole money by charging personal expenses to his union credit card. He also admitted he claimed lost wages for days he was... |
Families USA: Privately Funded Healthcare Propaganda Benefiting SEIU
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:43:00 AM
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| Families USA executive director Ron Pollock was in Missouri recently, using a local church as a meeting place to extol the virtues of Obamacare. Before we get into the video anlaysis, I wanted to pull the curtain back a bit on Families USA and make sure you knew just who Ron Pollock is, what kind of funding he has at his fingertips, and just how much he makes to propagandize for government run healthcare. First, understand that Families USA is pitched as a non-partisan media operation. Because they aren't connected to a party, the organization is able to get quoted... |
Thoughts about USPS....
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:43:00 AM
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| True story.. I work for the USPS as a mechanic... I fix and PM the machines that handle your mail. I am not a member of the union. I'm transferring to another mail handling plant. Long story short,,, I took a job paying 50K because I passed a test for the USPS.The test has changed to allow custodians to pass the test. Now anyone with common sense, but no real mechanical training can pass the test.I put in for a transfer to my hometown. On my second to the last day,,(before moving) a black custodian said: " If I was... |
Greek Rail System’s Debt Adds to Economic Woes
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:43:00 AM
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| Losses at Hellenic Railways... continue to mount — at the rate of 3 million euros ($3.8 million) a day. Its total debt has increased to $13 billion, or about 5 percent of Greece’s gross domestic product. Some have argued that Hellenic Railways should shut down the majority of its routes, especially in the mountainous Peloponnese region where trains manned by drivers being paid as much as $130,000 a year frequently run empty. The government, perhaps optimistically, is advocating the sale of a 49 percent stake to the French, who said this year that they would take a look. But it... |
TRENTON: Police looking for man accused of destroying property at engine plant
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:43:00 AM
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| By Anne Sullivan TRENTON — Police are looking for a man accused of damaging engines as they were being built at the Chrysler Trenton South Engine Plant. Robert Allen Colling, 55, of Washington Township is wanted on one count of attempted malicious destruction of personal property. It is a felony charge that carries a penalty of 2 1/2 years in prison or a $5,000 fine, police Sgt. Mark Enright said. “Chrysler (officials) found some bolts in engine blocks, and apparently there were witnesses who saw him walking in the area (and) drop bolts into a cylinder head,” he said. “They... |
To Protest Hiring of Nonunion Help, Union Hires Nonunion Pickets
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:43:00 AM
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| WASHINGTON—Billy Raye, a 51-year-old unemployed bike courier, is looking for work. Fortunately for him, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking paid demonstrators to march and chant in its current picket line outside the McPherson Building, an office complex here where the council says work is being done with nonunion labor. "For a lot of our members, it's really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else," explains Vincente Garcia, a union representative who is supervising the picketing. So instead, the union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage—$8.25 an hour—to walk picket lines.... |
Hawaii: Carpenter's union says unemployment at an all time high
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:43:00 AM
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| More than half of the state’s union carpenters are out of a job, officials say the industry isn’t turning around fast enough but they are hopeful future projects will help. Two and a half years after the recession hit Hawaii... “Our industry is still stuck,” said Hawaii Carpenters Union financial secretary Ron Taketa. Builders out of work on Maui total 65-percent, Hilo 67-percent and in Kona an unbelievable 95-percent of carpenters are out of a job. |
Hampshire workmen paint white lines around dead badger
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:43:00 AM
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| Workmen painting white lines on a road left a gap for a dead badger because they said it was not their responsibility to move it. The animal had been killed about a week before on the A338 near Downton, on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border. Hampshire County Council said the workers did what they thought "was best" because it is the district council's job to remove carcasses. |
To Protest Hiring of Nonunion Help, Union Hires Nonunion Pickets
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:43:00 AM
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| Billy Raye, a 51-year-old unemployed bike courier, is looking for work. Fortunately for him, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking paid demonstrators to march and chant in its current picket line outside the McPherson Building, an office complex here where the council says work is being done with nonunion labor. the union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage—$8.25 an hour—to walk picket lines. Mr. Raye says he's grateful for the work, even though he's not sure why he's doing it. "I could care less," he says. "I am being paid to march around and sound off." Protest... |
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