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Who Is Working America and Why Are They In My Mailbox?

by Steve MacDonald

Don’t throw away that mailer just yet. They spent a lot of money sending you that postage paid return envelope, and they probably spent a lot of money on the postage. And it would be a shame to waste that per-paid envelope. Maybe you should return those cards like they asked? Maybe let them know what you think?

Starve A Union Save A Teacher

by Steve MacDonald

SEIU Union ThuggeryThe state has no right to come between the union and its workers right?  Well I think I agree, because we now know how that works out.

Wisconsin Teachers no longer have their union dues deducted from their pay checks.  They have to either sign up for automatic payments through their bank or write a check to the union each month.  Given how the anti-Walker protests went, or at least how they were portrayed, this should not have been a problem for the union.  You know, workers unite and all that Jazz?  Well reality is quite a bit different from the media adaption of the Union talking points we saw on television.  The Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), the state education union, is laying off 40% of its staff in response to dwindling revenue.  But why?  What happened to workers unite?  Where did all the union protesters go?  Home to their own states is my guess.

Given the "choice" to support the Wisconsin education unions activities, many teachers have stopped paying dues and union staff have been laid off as a result.  So Wisconsin’s teachers just gave 42 state union employees their walking papers because they would rather keep the money for themsleves than give it to the WEAC.

The union is blaming Governor Walker and the Republicans but for what?  There’s no law against paying dues and the state is no longer coming between the union and its workers.  Kyle Olson at Big Government brings home the bacon…

If the union has anyone to blame, it has to be its rank-and-file members. Teachers have apparently been slow to provide WEAC with bank account information for direct dues payments, despite the teams of “home visitors” that have been dispatched to pressure members over the summer.

That situation says more about the union than it does about Walker or state government. If teachers really supported their union, they would pay their dues. If they don’t support their union, should they be forced to be members and pay dues?

(…)The suspicion is that WEAC is really nothing more than a small group of radical leaders who have been forcing captive members to finance their agenda for years.

Big protest, and we had one similar in New Hampshire, but what were they really protesting?

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Where’s Our Cheese?

by Steve MacDonald

…have New Hampshire’s low tax, local government, just leave me alone voters decided that a tax and spend, intrusive big government guy like Perry is the new (old) direction they want to pursue?

Top-100(?) donors to Political Candidates and Parties. And the Winner is…?

by Steve MacDonald

I don’t think they can compete with one particular “special interest” donor and their support of democrats. Actually no one can. They are a violent, noisy, sliver of the electorate, and they are still outspending not just every other group, but most or all of them added together;

Union Derangement Syndrome

by Skip

Usually, BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) or PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) is actually describing those that pretty much go off the rails when either President Bush or Gov. Sarah Palin comes up.  Here, however, my fellow Samsphere blogger friend, Maggie Thurber (Thurber’s Thoughts) takes apart a local union VP of communication as he runs off the … Read more

What If You Could Not Leave?

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So is it any surprise that the unions and their pet government bureaucracy the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the epitome of the fox in the hen house, didn’t want Boeing to move any of its manufacturing from Washington State (where employees are forced to join unions), to South Carolina (where workers have actual rights.)

It’s all about the hatred…..and “ME!” and my Union grievance

by Skip

We all know about the union antics of the Wisconsin unions and their supportive "fleebagger" Democrat Senators that fled the state this past winter and spring as Gov. Scott Walker and the Republicans tried to fix structural problems with that state’s budget. Well, it seems that some there haven’t heard the Fat Lady singing (not … Read more

Right To Work – “Dear State Legislator”

by Steve MacDonald

I realize most of the (Merrimack) town delegation supports right to work but as we approach the override vote I wanted to impart these remarks. If any business but a union demanded $50.00 every month from every employee, for benefits and used some of that money to finance its mostly one-party political action funding, there would be hell to pay. No one of any political party would support that. Now imagine if they had to do it or they could not work there?

Right To Work Override

by Steve MacDonald

If Exxon Mobile demanded $50.00 per month from all its employees, every month, to pay for benefits and it’s political action agenda, the left would shit kittens, protest, and then engage in well funded, partisan series of lawsuits until the company was forbidden from using that money for political activity.

Hey Lefty? Wassup With the Health Care Waivers?

by Steve MacDonald

Here’s a nice video to get you primed up and ready to de-fang a union near you. It’s all about ObamaScare and the Democrat-Crony Waiver wire. Unions, Democrats, Hypocrites, Together.

HOUSE BILL 474: THE “NAY’S” AND THE “NO-SHOWS”

by Rick Olson

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“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.” -Samuel Butler

“The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.”-Michael Caine

HOUSE BILL 474, “An act relative to freedom of choice on whether to join a labor union,” passed out of the house and obtained Senate Concurrence with Amendments. In laymen’s terms, both houses passed the bill.  However, it is important to note that in the House, the bill did not pass with a veto-proof majority. According to the House Bill 474 Roll Call, the Bill passed  225 Yeas and 140 Nays.

How It Breaks down:

DEMOCRATIC

 

  

Yea Vote

 

0

Nay Vote

 

93

Not Voting

 

9
 

 

  

REPUBLICAN

 

  

Yea Vote

 

225

Nay Vote

 

47

Not Voting

 

21

 

 

 

INDEPENDENT

 

 

Yea Vote

 

1

Nay Vote

 

0

Not Voting

 

0

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THE VETO OF HB 474: “RIGHT TO WORK? NOT SO MUCH…

by Rick Olson

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“Labor unions would have us believe that they transfer income from rich capitalists to poor workers. In fact, they mostly transfer income from the large number of non-union workers to a small number of relatively well-off union workers…”   –ROBERT E. ANDERSON, Just Get Out of the Way

 

 CONCORD – Governor Lynch, true to his word vetoed HB 474, the right to work Bill recently passed out of the house and Senate.  Passed out of both the house and Senate, the bill has drawn the ire of the Union Hackarama far and wide. All of the pro-unionists came out in force to pontificate about being against the working men and women of this country; About people who will starve and go hungry; and when the rhetoric and false logic had no effect, They crowded hearing rooms and were disruptive with verbal outbursts. Despite all this bad behavior, rank demagoguery and cursing at lawmakers, the bill passed anyway.

Tom Fahey, Statehouse Bureau Chief for the Union Leader  writes, “Unions see the bill as a move funded by out of state interests to undercut their role in the workplace. (Unions) argue that the measure intrudes in labor-management relations,” in this morning’s UL article,GOP goes after right-to-work opponents.

Juxtapose that against Unions bussing in “volunteers” for Carol Shea-Porter’s campaign from, Lord-knows where; And, the Union interests from all around the country pumping big dollars into local campaigns, those hardly qualify as out-of-state interests? Leave it to Union mouthpieces to complain about the very thing that is not only pro forma for them, but done with absolute shameless impunity.

Governor Lynch and his union cronies, with their Machiavellian Template,  redefine the plain and ordinary meaning of words in the furtherance of their subterfuge. In his press release Governor Lynch chastises, “States should not interfere with the rights of businesses and their employees to freely negotiate contracts. That is unless there is a compelling public interest, and there is no compelling public interest in passing this legislation…” They would have us believe that somehow the veto of this bill is was advocacy for freedom.” Lynch would have us believe job seekers have this “freedom” already in place enabling them to be free from the yoke of the Unions. That is untrue, when an employee has to pay an agency fee to the coffers of the Union. That is essentially joining the Union by proxy.

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WI Dems and unions harrassing recall signers?

by Skip

Just like in California, where the gay activists got their hands on the personal information of those who had donated to support Proposition 8 (to repeal gay marriage), we are now seeing the same tactics from the Left now in Wisconsin, site of the "fleebagger" Democrat State Senators that left Wisconsin instead of doing their … Read more

Clarity and Collective Bargaining?

by Rick Olson

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Mr. Sapienza asks in the Union Leader, “Do legislators even know what state workers do?”
Perhaps some don’t. I know for a fact that some do…many have been state workers themselves. With so many flawed or misquided assumptions, the demagoguery lives on. 

Edward Sapienza of Manchester, through the Union Leader opposite editorial pages seeks to “offer some clarity and ask our state representatives and state senators, specifically what conservative values do [sic] you bring to the table?” Mr. Sapienza asserts this legislature is taking from the rank and file working class. “Getting state and county spending under control is, “taking from the working class?” pointing to the measure to remove collective bargaining.

Mr. Sapienza is a correctional officer at the Hillsborough County Jail.  As a Hillsborough County taxpayer, I am grateful and thankful for his service because being a correctional officer is a tough job. The care, custody, and control of our societal miscreants is a significant task, requiring patience, an even temperament and intelligence. Correctional Officers must follow a clearly defined set of rules, procedures and standards in dealing with our county prisoners and detainees, who, on the other hand, adhere to no such rules or standards, other than those imposed by the facility that keeps them. Few truly know what a day in the life of a correctional officer is truly like and often times, the only public mention of the men and women who do this job is when we see acts of wrong-doing by them in newspapers. It’s unfair.

Moreover, very few understand that in Mr. Sapienza’s workplace; even the most seemingly innocuous question or request by an inmate or detainee can tax a Correctional Officer. A Correctional Officer must be able to think quickly, evaluate, and understand that his response may have an unintended consequence. The CO must ask, “Did the inmate or detainee already ask another staff member? Did that staff member say, ‘no'”? If I say, ‘yes’, am I causing an inconsistency with my other staff members, enabling an inmate manipulation?” Being a correctional officer is a challenging career and is not a job for stupid people.

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Andrew Breitbart confronts counter-protesting union thugs at a TEA Party rally in Wisconsin

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And he knows EXACTLY whereof he speaks:

The (other) Picture of The Day

by Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire may have a chart just like this one, so with any luck someone will be kind enough to provide it. Until then this shows us what Ohio Education Association Union Employees make compared to the other suckers who “also pay taxes.” A theme repeated in every state most likley. Data is supposed to be from the US Dept of Labor.

Unions – bringing their Thuggish Wisconsin ways to NH

by Skip

Look out NH – what has happened in Wisconsin is now about to be unleashed here in NH.  Via JP Marzullo: This guy sent this to our State Senator Andy Sanborn; anyone know him? Nice guy huh? Good Luck with throwing him out. Let the games begin. Dear Andy Sanborn,There are more of us than … Read more

So, union members are all “light and sweetness”? Hardly – it seems that their inner Teamsters showed up and went for easy pickings: an older Lady.

by Skip

I know this lady – a class act all the way around.  Minds her manners, is polite, but firm in her beliefs and puts her beliefs into actions.  Her problem on Thursday while trying to support those legislators trying to "live within our means" and giving the taxpayers a break was her gender and her age. 

They say that they are for the common folks.  Some way to treat a Lady – you make your words a mockery of themselves – you three union thugs physically picked on a Lady who could not defend herself.  Big men, guys, big men….

Emphasis mine:

My experience in Concord today, March 31, 2011

Today I ventured into the area in front of the State Capitol in Concord, surrounded by all the union workers there to protest the deliberations in the State House over the budget!  They were intimidating and threatening to the few of us who were there expressing our differing opinions.  A couple were willing to have an intelligent discourse, but most were hateful, yelling, ugly, and confrontational.

I have never seen so many disabled and mentally-challenged people in one setting before, each with his/her "minder" in tow.  There were more wheelchairs than at a nursing home!   The entire "program" was one "sob story" after another.  For instance, a 10-year-old telling the story of how her two autistic brothers would be denied service if this new budget was passed.  And so forth . . .  This went on for an hour.  It was pathetic.

The leaders of this rally were very organized, with buses for transport and signs for everyone — including the poor mentally deficient kids who had NO idea why they were holding the signs.  One poor soul kept telling me, "Goodbye."  I wondered if he knew something I didn’t.  

When I first arrived, alone, I mingled with the crowd and held up my sign # 1 which read, "Private sector workers have rights too."  This got a "thumbs up" from the SEIU guys — so I realized they didn’t get it.  So then I held up the sign that read, "Union workers are a "privileged" class."  This, too, got a thumbs up.  They were very excited about that one.  Duh!

I realized I had been TOO subtle.  Then I held up "Power Grab + $ Grab = Extremist."  Again, they liked it.  I was really feeling quite inadequate in my sign-making.

My final shot was "Cut the Budget — Stop Spending."  THAT they got!  And I was instantly surrounded by 3 huge firefighters holding their BIG signs in a way that obliterated my sign.  

(So much for my theory that they would not attack an old lady.)

I couldn’t move, and they wouldn’t move off.  So,…

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Extremists? Sure, On The Left Aide Of The Aisle

by Steve MacDonald

NH Democrats and unions do not support New Hampshire workers rights. If they did they’d be defending the other 90% of the states workers from the inequality in pay and benefits afforded to public union employees. So this isn’t about workers rights, it is about protecting the big business of big Unions and democrat political campaign contributions, at the expense of 90% of New Hampshire’s workers. If anyone is being an extremist it’s the democrats and their union backed, taxpayer funded ponzi scheme.

2012 Can’t Come Fast Enough

by Steve MacDonald

The Sunday Union Leader had a letter to the editor titled "2012 can’t come fast enough."  It suggests that New Hampshire did not vote for a majority and leadership intent on stripping collective bargaining agreements from 70,000 New Hampshire workers…" which is a number I would contest given this data.  (Where we may be hiding 70,000 public sector union workers is a question worth exploring, but not right now.)

The author is Kevin Foley.  Kevin is a great guy.   We worked together at UPS for a number of years, he was a driver, and I was a package car loader–including his.  But Kevin has been a well paid union organizer with the Teamsters for years, as an IBT Business agent, and earns more than double the national average in income and compensation for the privilege. Kudos to Kevin for the sweet gig.  I bet he works hard for it.

Kevin has donated hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars to democrats and the local Teamster PAC–(Granite State Teamsters DRIVE) which supports the national union and democrat candidates in the state (one local example from NH S.o.S.); the same ones who grew state government, added public union employees, some of whose dues pay Kevin’s salary, and the same democrats who left us with a nearly one billion dollar budget deficit as a result.

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