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I’ve been exposing the radical ethnic tribalism that infuses the illegal alien student DREAM Act movement for years (see here for my most recent refresher course). Anyone who has been to a college campus and interacted with these narcissistic multi-culti activists knows that the American flag-waving act is a cynical crock of you-know-what. Fresh from [...]

Another Big Labor/Big Gov pet project comes up for a vote in the House today. The federal child nutrition bill will get an up-or-down vote after wrangling on both sides of the aisle. It will be paid for through cuts in the food stamp program, which the White House promises Dems it will repay. Ha. [...]

The backpedaling Purple Army bosses are running scared. As you know from my column yesterday, the mammoth SEIU 1199 chapter dropped kiddie coverage and specifically blamed the Obamacare slacker mandate for raising costs. Reminder from the WSJ report on the union’s woes: More than 30,000 low-wage families will be affected, according to The Wall Street [...]

Know your enemies.

Because they haven’t poured enough of rank-and-file workers’ hard-earned money down the drain, the SEIU Purple Army is burning through another $250,000 attacking Sharron Angle as…yeah, extreme and dangerous. Via The Hill: The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) launched a new television ad Thursday blasting Nevada Republican Sharron Angle. In the ad, Angle is criticized [...]

I’ve been writing about the rank-and-file union member revolt against forced political spending and power grab schemes taking place under the radar screen across the country. More are saying enough is enough. Illinois Review interviewed a Chicago SEIU member over the weekend fed up with his labor bosses ignoring him: In Ohio, a teachers’ union [...]

**Written by Doug Powers “One Nation Working Together” would like to thank everybody who attended Saturday’s “trash-a-palooza” rally at the Lincoln Memorial. What a scene it was: That looks like a crowd similar to those who attended MLK’s “I have a dream” speech: Look at the positioning of some of the people on the near-side [...]

Apples to unionized oranges

Earlier this week, I covered the SEIU 1199/Patrick Gaspard ties to the organizers of today’s Left-a-palooza in Washington. Regular readers are also familiar with many of the “One Nation” organizations’ progressive K Street/DC roots. Open-borders zealots will be out in full force. No doubt some of the same types of paid, non-English-speaking day laborers who’ve [...]

Lots of last-minute rebukes of Team Obama on Capitol Hill to report as Congress adjourned for the midterm elections break. The Senate gave the president the back of the hand on recess appointments. And now we learn that House Democrats rejected the First Lady’s aggressive push to fund her anti-childhood obesity/union payoff campaign by raiding [...]

Look for the union label My column today sheds light on SEIU Local 1199, which is spearheading this weekend’s disgruntled lefty protest in Washington. As Big Labor’s Tea Party-bashing rhetoric ramps up, it’s time for workers to put the blame for their troubles where it really belongs — on the heads of their own corrupt, [...]

You know, maybe all those SEIU workers who will be bussed in for the left-wing Washington rally this weekend ought to take a detour and protest at the SEIU headquarters instead. Fresh off the wires, news of the FBI’s corruption probe of the Purple Army: The FBI and the U.S. Labor Department are investigating prominent [...]

They won’t take no for an answer. So we have to give them both barrels again. On July 27, the Senate voted down the Democrats’ union-friendly, loophole-ridden, Orwellian-titled DISCLOSE Act. The bogus campaign finance reform bill was, as Sen. Mitch McConnell put it, a “transparent attempt to rig fall elections” that was written “behind closed [...]

Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer outlines the relationship between Barack Obama, his open-borders Big Labor buddies at the SEIU/UFCW, and Democrat gubernatorial candidate and SEIU water-carrier Terry Goddard. I call it the No Illegal Alien Union Dues-Paying Democrat Voter Left Behind Alliance. Brewer adds: The SEIU and UFCW actively supported President Obama in 2008 and [...]

Just say no In October, I published a special report on how unions are extending their power grab into the private residences of home health care providers — and how parents in Illinois fought back. NLRB recess appointee and former SEIU lawyer Craig Becker played a key role in pushing the Big Labor home invasion [...]

Watch your back(sides).

Obama’s $50 Billion Union Infrastructure Boondoggle by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 President Obama calls his latest attempt to revive the economy a “Plan to Renew and Expand America’s Roads, Railways and Runways.” I’m calling it “The Mother of all Big Dig Boondoggles.” Like the infamous “Big Dig” highway spending project in Boston, this [...]

Thugs-in-chief My syndicated column today takes on the rise of President Obama’s best new Big Labor buddy, Richard Trumka — whose looming presence on the political scene I first flagged in April. As we noted last week, he’s got a combined $88 million war chest with his labor alliance and a Marxist get-out-the-vote force behind [...]

When SEIU president Andy Stern resigned in April, I noted the jockeying for power between the AFL-CIO and SEIU. I asked: Gulp: Are we about to see a re-merger of SEIU and AFL-CIO into a new 21st-century Big Labor Frankenstein? Question: Are we looking at the death throes of forced unionism — or its resurrection? [...]

Today’s column targets SEIU consigliere Craig Becker and the latest White House gift to Big Labor. So far this summer, Team Obama is fronting the SEIU-backed $8 billion Child Nutrition Act expansion and forked over the union-stamped $26 billion BigGovJobs bailout. And as I noted yesterday, the next big government/labor payoff is on the way [...]

And the hits just keep coming. Fresh off the $26 billion BigGovJobs union bailout, the Dems are pushing another labor-backed rescue for beleaguered pension funds. Estimated initial cost: $8 to $10 billion, with as much as $165 billion in potential taxpayer-funded liabilities on the horizon. The WSJ spotlights: Congress is gone for August—heaven be praised—but [...]

Insatiable.

Scroll for updates… The Democrats call their $26 billion, Big Labor/bankrupt states’ bailout legislation the “EduJobs” bill. Let’s inject some truth in advertising. The “EduJobs” bill is nothing but a BigGovJobs bill — a massive election season pay-off to Democrat special interests. With your money. I noted last week that Nancy Pelosi is summoning her [...]

Today marks the 9th day of jury deliberations in the Blagojevich corruption trial. Early in their deliberations, the jurors asked the judge for a full transcript of the trial, including the prosecution’s closing arguments, which provided a comprehensive road map of the 28 counts and corresponding evidence against Blagojevich and his brother. The judge denied [...]

On June 29, I shared an outraged e-mail from an L.A. government worker lambasting the SEIU for using worker dues to organize a pro-illegal immigration bus ride to protest Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. SB1070 goes into effect this week. Flashback: I am a member of SEIU because, as an employee of Los Angeles County I [...]

The union-friendly, loophole-ridden, Orwellian-titled DISCLOSE Act comes up for a cloture vote in the Senate this afternoon. It appears doomed. But take nothing for granted. It passed the House in June. This is a relief: Squishy GOP Sen. Susan Collins announced she’s a no vote: The legislation exempts some politically powerful, large membership groups like [...]

DUI: Driving under the influence…of Big Labor-pandering, left-wing radicals My column today dives into the TARP special inspector general’s audit of the “Factors Affecting the Decisions of General Motors and Chrysler to Reduce Their Dealership Networks.” You can find it at the TARP OIG’s website here. I encourage you all to read through the entire [...]

Continuing my series of posts on the bottom-up revolt against SEIU corruption… Reader M, an SEIU member in New Hampshire, sends along a story on the Big Labor crook of the day. The NH State Employees Association is SEIU Local 1984. They’ve just put their president on ice, via WMUR. It’s a slap on the [...]

Shocked, shocked? Not. Mark Tapscott at The Examiner reports on NLRB Big Labor radical Craig Becker’s conflict-of-interest troubles: In the least surprising news of the week, Craig Becker — Big Labor’s go-to legal expert — has served on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for barely three months, and he’s already under investigation. Becker lost [...]

I’ve gotten several enraged e-mails from rank-and-file SEIU members who have been leaned on by their leaders to campaign against Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. From reader A.: I am a member of SEIU because, as an employee of Los Angeles County I have to be, and today I received an email from their office detailing [...]