Labor unions and leftist activists are expected to once again descend upon the Captiol in Madison, WI on Tuesday. They plan to protest Governor Scott Walker’s first 2-year budget proposal, which seeks to cap entitlement programs and make cuts in education while expanding school voucher programs, in an attempt to close a $3 [...]
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Latest Protests Bring an ‘Epic’ Wisconsin Donor Back Into the Spotlight
Posted: June 17, 2011 in 2012 Budget, Big Labor, Health Care, Healthcare, News, Politics, State Politics, Tea Party, TechnologyTags: AFL-CIO, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, electronic health records, electronic medical records, epic systems, Fidel Castro, governor, Greater Wisconsin Committee, Greater Wisconsin Political Fund, health care reform, health information technology, judith faulkner, Kaiser Permanente, Kloppenburg, Madison, Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, paul soglin, Prosser, protest, scott walker, tammy baldwin, Wisconsin
BREAKING NEWS: SEIU President Andy Stern to Resign
Posted: December 22, 2010 in AFL-CIO, Labor Unions, News, Obama, SEIUTags: AFL-CIO, Andy Stern, court, Deficit Commission, health care, jury, NUHW, resign, resignation, SEIU, Service Employees International Union, trumka, Union
[original post 4/12/2010] According to Ben Smith of Politico, Andy Stern, longtime President of the Service Employees International Union, is rumored to be resigning from his position. From the Politico post: Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, one of America’s most prominent labor leaders, is set to resign, according to a member of the [...]
California’s Class Warfare: PLAs Pit Union and Non-Union Workers Against Each Other
Posted: December 21, 2010 in AFL-CIO, Labor Unions, Obama, PoliticsTags: AFL-CIO, Boston Big Dig, Building and Construction Trade Councils, California, Central Valley, executive order, Greenmail, labor union, long beach airport terminal, mass transit, measure C, MTA, northern california power agency, Obama, PLA, private sector jobs, project labor agreement, Public Sector, Riverside, school construction, stimulus
[original post 2/1/2010] Ten minutes prior to the start of a December 15th, 2009 board meeting of the Riverside Community College District in California, board members are handed a 52-page document filled with millions of dollars in projects to be funded by the district’s taxpayers, who themselves are struggling under the state’s 12.4% unemployment rate. [...]
