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MACDONALD: Union Gets Uppity About #WOKE Teachers Getting Fired

September 22, 2025 Steve MacDonald

In the wake of a rise in teacher firings (for celebrating a public execution), the Massachusetts Teachers Association is demanding that districts and colleges defend their educators. “The ongoing campaign by extreme-right conservatives to discredit and defund public education has grotesquely exploited the shooting death of Charlie Kirk to launch attacks against people commenting on … Read more

Mitchell: House Panel Probes Taxpayer Dollars Sent to Left-Wing Groups

July 22, 2025July 21, 2025 Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

(Associated News Service) Left-leaning nonprofits receive taxpayer dollars in three key ways—through government contracts and grants, indirectly through government unions, and through taxpayer-funded union time—Daily Signal Senior Editor Tyler O’Neil told a House panel Tuesday. “Federal employees in a union give part of their taxpayer-funded paychecks to the union, ostensibly for representation in bargaining for perks like … Read more

Roper: A Final Plea for Property Tax Relief

June 14, 2025 Rob Roper

In 2024, when Vermont property taxpayers were whacked with an average 14 percent year over year increase, with some communities seeing nearly 40 percent increases, nobody (or at least not enough) in the legislature asked if citizens could afford this. They just shrugged their shoulders and stuck us with the bill. Same as every year … Read more

MacDonald: The Democrats’ Land of “Working Class” Make Believe

June 6, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Democrats used to pretend to be the party of the people, and the people believed them. Not so much these days, but they can’t win elections without working-class voters, so their hatred of primarily white middle-class Americans needs a cover story. Pay no attention to the globalism, policy that increases taxes, rasies the cost of … Read more

Special Interests Versus the Children

April 19, 2025 Rob Roper

Just a reminder here that former National Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker once admitted, “When schoolchildren start paying dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.” True that! And watching the debate in the legislature over how to reign in public education costs and improve student outcomes, I think that sentiment resides … Read more

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Special Interests Versus the Children

April 3, 2025 Rob Roper

The Right-to-Work Freeloader Fallacy

January 26, 2025 Andrew Cline

Labor unions negotiate benefits on behalf of all employees of a collective bargaining unit, not just their own members, unions say. Since non-members receive the benefits, they should be compelled to pay the union for negotiating them. Because right-to-work laws forbid non-union employees from being compelled as a condition of employment to pay any portion … Read more

The Teamsters Have Evolved From Horse And Buggy To AI

December 27, 2024 Ray Cardello

I have to preface this article by disclosing I have never been a fan of labor unions, having been in management or ownership my entire career. Still, because I drive a school bus in my retirement, I have been a Teamster for five years. I recently watched Tucker Carlson interview Teamsters National President Sean O’Brien, … Read more

To Dems The Election is More Important Than the Supply Chain

October 5, 2024 Ray Cardello

The longshoremen all along the east coast, from Maine to Texas, went on strike this week, bringing the vital shipping ports to an abrupt stop. The 45,000 men who keep the goods Americans buy and those American manufacturers ship overseas are on strike. These men feel underappreciated and fearful of their jobs as the seaports … Read more

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Ammo and Bananas: Dockworker Strike Expected to Create Shortages

October 1, 2024September 30, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Dockworkers at 36 ports along the eastern seaboard are walking off the job at midnight. The good news is that a majority of them hate Kamala Harris. The bad news is that if an intervention was required, she’d be the only one with President in their title (hers is vice, how ironic) to step in … Read more

Another Dumb Constitutional Amendment….

April 6, 2024 Rob Roper

The Democrat/Progressive Supermajority in Montpelier isn’t just oblivious to reality. They are actively hostile to it. One has to conclude that they are purposefully attempting to destroy our state economy because nobody could actually be this stupid by sheer accident.

Dartmouth College and Basketball Unions

March 31, 2024 Michael Moffett

A 2014 court case ruled that the NCAA violated antitrust laws by prohibiting college athletes from commercially cashing in on their sports skills, the way pro athletes have long done. The NCAA was ordered to pay plaintiffs and attorneys over $42 million.

DeSantis And Florida Took the Janus Decision to Its Next Logical Step

January 5, 2024January 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Teacher’s Unions are sinister private entities whose only concern is how much money they can make and how best to use that to impact politics at every level of government. Sure, Janus v. AFSCME was a great decision, but the war against public employee unions continues, and Ron DeSantis is leading that fight.

Oops! Proposed Law to Expand Unions Could Allow Employees to Skip Employer Diversity or Social Justice Training

May 14, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Vermont Democrats want to make it easier for employees to form unions in the state, so they’ve introduced legislation that would let workers “decline to attend employer-hosted meetings” without consequence “they are primarily about the employers’ political or religious opinions.”

Unions Help Southwest Airlines Police Workers to Purge Conservatives and Christians

November 3, 2022 Steve MacDonald

If you are one of those #woke, vaccinated libs working at Southwest Airlines, you better be careful. While you might not object to your union targeting its own dues-paying employees on political grounds, allowing that sort of internecine surveillance will inevitably come back to bite you in your fat blue ass.

GOP Candidate Tim Lang (NH Sen. Dist. 2) Is Sucking from the Union PAC Teat – AND Getting the NH GOP to Push Out Mailers for Him?

October 7, 2022 Skip

And the NH State GOP is PAYING for it? Good going, dufuses, right off target again! Yep, sent right to my house:

Are Owners and Employees Equals?

August 28, 2022 Ian Underwood

The Knead pizza chain in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, recently decided to close for good.

This may have been in response to an effort by its employees to form a union. The owners aren’t saying. (They did say that the closure would happen regardless of how the vote to unionize came out.)

The Reason Why NH State Rep Brodie Deshaies (R-Wolfeboro) Supports Unions (Think Right-To-Work): Bought and Paid For!

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 Skip

I keep saying “I get stuff” and “people send me even more stuff”. It seems that several such folks believe that Republicans should let Brodie Deshaies drop like a rock. There was another attempt, here in NH, to pass Right To Work legislation. Here are the Union payments to his campaign fund for this year’s … Read more

Biden Speaks (lies) to AFL-CIO. Facts Matter

June 17, 2022 Ray Cardello

Joe Biden spoke to the AFL-CIO this week in what can only be called a stump speech. It was a campaign speech complete with volume changes from whispers to yelling. It was big on style but weak on content. His speech was filled with lies and was both embarrassing and insulting.