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The White House is still refusing to comment on Jimmy Hoffa’s profane, threatening warm-up speech before President Obama’s Labor Day gig in Detroit yesterday. They’ve got each other’s back. Here’s a flashback from May 2008 that you may remember. Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement of the Teamsters earlier this year after privately telling the [...]

Scroll for updates… As the MSM whitewashes Big Labor’s ugly threats, Tea Party smears, and history of coerced dues-subsidized racketeering this Labor Day, what better way to mark the holiday than with an illustrated list of top 10 union thug moments of the year. 10. August 16, 2011, across the Northeast. Striking Communications Workers of [...]

**Written by Doug Powers You may have read in the past few days that a Labor Day parade in Wausau, Wisconsin that is organized by unions, but also funded by the city, had planned to bar Republicans from taking part because those Republicans “have openly attacked workers rights.” Now the Mayor of Wausau says that’s [...]

“…torture them, torture them with chants and noise. Be so loud that they can’t concentrate and wish they never got out of bed.”

Tomorrow, Wisconsin voters head back to the polls for round two of the 2011 recalls. Big Labor lost big last week in its botched bid to punish Republican state senators for supporting budget reform and failed to take control of the state legislature. This time, two Democratic fleebaggers may be turned out for abandoning their [...]

Mr. Green Jobs Boondoggle Rides Again by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 Van Jones, President Obama’s disgraced green jobs czar, is back with a radical progressive plan to rescue America … from his old boss. The problem, posits Jones, is that his fellow community organizer in the White House hasn’t spent enough, regulated enough [...]

Scroll for election result updates below… Just a reminder: Today’s the day the big-spending public employee unions hope to oust 6 GOP Wisconsin state senators — not for any corruption, malfeasance, or criminal actions, but for making the tough decisions and supporting the fiscally responsible measures spearheaded by GOP Gov. Scott Walker. Tea Party activists [...]

Graphic via The Truth about PLAs I’ve written before about Project Labor Agreements — Big Labor’s blunt instrument used to give unions a leg up in contracting. This racket needs all the exposure it can get. As previously noted, PLAs in theory set reasonable pre-work terms and conditions — but in practice, require contractors to [...]

“This is our Dependence Day!”

Postcard from London: Wisconsin on the Thames by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 LONDON – Big Labor looks the same wherever you go: Petulant, irrational, and wholly aggrieved beyond its means. I’m here on vacation with family as some 750,000 public-sector employees strike in protest over modest pension reform proposals. It’s a taste of [...]

Good morning, readers. It’s 11:30am here in London and that massive, multi-union strike I told you about the other day is now underway. My family had planned to visit Westminster today, but it’s off the table now. I get enough of the Big Labor mob scene back in the States. No need to expose the [...]

I’m in London on vacation with family, but will be filing my regular Wednesday and Friday columns and blogging when the sloooow Internet connections allow. There’s much tension here as three-quarters of a million public union workers prepare to strike on Thursday. Featured above is one of countless posters littering the streets — I snapped [...]

Big Labor mob chants in 3, 2, 1… The Wisconsin Supreme Court has cleared the way for GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair/union reform law — and rebuked a county judge for interfering in the legislative process. Breaking this afternoon from the Wisconsin State Journal: The state Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a Dane County [...]

Well, how did this happen, hmmm? The Wisconsin GOP reports that Democrats in the Dairy State are “using a fraudulent tactic to harass and intimidate constituents who favor recalling Democrat Senator Dave Hansen of Green Bay.” Somehow, calls are being placed in the name of “Bay Care Aurora” — a local hospital — by left-wing [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Maybe the caller was only trying to make sure the pumps were clear in case any Wisconsin Senate fleebaggers needed to top off the tank for another escape to Illinois. From WBAY-TV: A Sheboygan gas station owner is baffled after a mystery caller tells a clerk it’s a bad idea to [...]

Last week, blogger Jason Hart charted the pay of Ohio teachers’ union bosses versus the rest of the state workforce. Jason is back with a new union pay chart of the day comparing the salaries of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) employees versus private-sector workers and other government workers. Notice anything? [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The food profiteers & self-appointed nutrition cops stampede onward. From the Chicago Tribune: Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school. “Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?” the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish and English. [...]

Pictures are worth a thousand words. This one, via Jason Hart at thathero, is a priceless rejoinder to the class-warfare demagoguery of the public employee unions: As Jason explains: “Consider the average OEA employee’s pay, stacked up against the averages for Ohio private industry workers, government employees, and teachers…The data (aggregated here in a single [...]

Sgt. Crock

**Written by Doug Powers Will the hard left sentence her to three months at HW & Bubba’s Institute for Civil Discourse for extensive “new civility” re-education, or have a parade in her honor? That was just a rhetorical question, by the way. From the Journal-Sentinel: Madison — A 26-year-old woman was charged Thursday with two [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Hot off the presses from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Madison — Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday, barring the publication of a controversial new law that would sharply curtail collective bargaining for public employees. Sumi’s order will prevent Secretary of State Doug La Follette from publishing [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Lansing, Michigan’s Mayor, Virg Bernero, recently lost (badly) in his bid to become governor of the state, which is now looking like even better news than it was back in November. Bernero is a big time union backer — and now it’s being reported that he’s supporting the unions even at [...]

I first wrote about the progressive infrastructure bank boondoggle last September. Today’s column revisits the recycled government slush fund recipe now being offered by Jawn Kerry. Politico says the costly idea is “gaining steam.” The GOP needs to stop this runaway gravy train in its tracks. Guess who’s enabling the Left? GOP Sen. Kay Bailey [...]

Nice business ya got there… shame if something were to happen to it…

**Written by Doug Powers After reading this story I waited for a tsunami of reminders from the left that we’re supposed to be in the age of the “new tone” and this kind of language has no place in modern-day political dialogue, but I haven’t yet heard a single one: MADISON – The State Department [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Woody Allen once said that 80 percent of success is just showing up. And if you’re in the Wisconsin Senate, the other 20 percent is having a firm grasp on the rules in order to work around those who don’t show up: MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate [...]

**Written by Doug Powers “The bill I’m signing will set in motion reforms that generations of Americans have fought for and marched for and hungered to see.” –Barack Obama, March 23, 2010 America sure did lose its appetite fast. First unions and various corporations received Obamacare waivers by the hundreds, and now whole states are [...]

A reader sends an organizing alert from the American Federation of Teachers being circulated among public school educators in Wisconsin this week. Who cares about teaching arithmetic or social studies? It’s Alinsky and social justice time! NEW Activist training March 4 & 5 Pyle Center–UW Madison Madison, WI Working with the national AFT, we are [...]

My column today expounds on my blog post yesterday on the New York State teachers’ union call to “agitate.” Both the New York state and New York city teachers’ unions wields immense power with massive budgets funded with forced member dues. You may have read the exclusive story in the NYPost on the NYC’s United [...]