Paul Teller of the Republican Study Committee has a fairly comprehensive list of business quashing bills the 110th Congress has passed during their tenure in power as leadership continues to accumulate the means of production.
Did you grow your own sugar? Did you build your own laptop? Maybe, but odds are you didn’t. You almost certainly traded money for sugar and your laptop.
We buy things because we don’t have the time, resources or know-how to make them ourselves. Heck, sometimes, we’re just too lazy, (thank God for Domino’s Pizza). […]
The Post reports what we already knew: Unionism is declining, but the political power of the big unions isn’t:
The juxtaposition of the United Auto Workers‘ negotiations with General Motors and the Change to Win alliance’s summit underscored one of the more notable features of the 2008 presidential race. Organized labor may be on the […]
It’s not exactly a secret that Democrats are in the pocket of the labor movement.  Despite the country’s shrinking union membership, labor remains a potent force in electoral politics — and its support goes almost exclusively to Democrats. USA Today’s got a handy report on how their influence plays out now that Democrats control Congress:
The […]
It’s no secret that unions are pushy and prone to intimidation. But if a handful of unions get their way, it could get worse. The New York Times reports that seven unions are requesting that employers be forced to negotiate with them even if they don’t represent a majority of workers. As a lawyer in […]
Americans will no longer tolerate the Republicans’ continued abuses of power and catering to corporate special interests. -Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi’s top campaign contributer in 2006? Occidental Petroleum: $17,000.
But where does she get most of her money?
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers- $15,000
Sheet Metal Workers Union- $15,000
AFL-CIO- $10,000
American Federation of Teachers- $10,000
American Postal Workers Union- $10,000
Bricklayers […]
Today’s Congress Daily reported that Senate Republicans
blocked the union-backed “card-check” bill that would have made it easier for workers to organize, derailing labor’s top priority for the year. Democrats fell nine votes short of the 60 needed to overcome Republican opposition, as the cloture motion failed on a 51-48 vote.
All Democrats who were voting […]
Doug Bandow, Bastiat scholar in free enterprise at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and vice president of policy for Citizen Outreach, discusses card check and the Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 on the Examiner.com.
Bandow explains that when it comes to recruiting new members to the union, union activists feel it is OK to routinely intimidate […]
Amanda Carpenter over at TownHall.com wrote a story about how our supporters were bullied at yesterday’s union rally.
Big Labor bussed thousands of activists to Capitol Hill Tuesday to lobby for the Employee Free Choice Actâ€â€an act union leaders have called their top legislative priority for the 110th Congress.
Event organizers claimed they brought 2,000 participants on […]
Mitch McConnell has written a good op-ed on why we need to preserve the secret ballot in union elections. The “Employee Free Choice Act of 2007″, which would actually reduce the choices available to workers, has passed the House and will be voted on in the Senate this week.
Rather than enable employees’ free choice, […]
Peter Suderman is a writer and policy analyst at FreedomWorks. Email him at: psuderman@freedomworks.org.
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