Labor’s Intimidation Manual
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 18th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Labor’s Intimidation Manual
F. Vincent Vernuccio, Washington Times
In the past decade, unions have become increasingly desperate to obtain new dues-paying members. An example of how desperate can be found in a 70-plus-page intimidation manual from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which only recently came to light in a pending court case.The new union tactic is to use pressure on corporate boardrooms as a means of organizing entire companies nationwide rather than recruiting workers on a site-by-site basis; in short, to organize employers rather than employees.
Goldman Sachs Downgrades Obamanomics
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Yes, that Goldman Sachs, the investment firm with lots of political ties, but generally more friendly to Democrats than Republicans. In 2008, the firm bet heavily on Barack Obama, with almost a million dollars in contributions from its PAC — the second-highest contributing organization, only trailing the University of California’s PAC. One of its former employees, Rahm Emanuel, ran the West Wing for Obama until leaving for the Chicago mayoral race late last year.
Why Hasn’t the Earth Warmed in 15 Years?
Patrick Michaels, Forbes
There is no statistically significant warming trend since November of 1996 in monthly surface temperature records compiled at the University of East Anglia. Do we now understand why there’s been no change in fourteen and a half years?If you read the news stories surrounding a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Boston University’s Robert Kaufmann and three colleagues, you’d say yes, indeed. It’s China’s fault.
Middle Class Incomes Need to Grow Again
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
David Leonhardt explains the roots of our lousy economic recovery today: “We are living through a tremendous bust. It isn’t simply a housing bust. It’s a fizzling of the great consumer bubble that was decades in the making.” True enough. And in the short term, debt overhang and unemployment explain perfectly well why Wal-Mart is increasingly noticing that its customer are running out of money at the end of each month. But I think Leonhardt skates over our real dilemma too hastily when he tries to turn this into a broader lesson about the economy:
