Holy Fucking Shit, UFCW:
I live in Pennsylvania. Almost all liquor sales, apart from a few places that can sell beer, are through a state monopoly of stores that employ 5000 union employees. The state-owned stores are inefficient, expensive and badly run. The state tried a hilarious experiment in wine kiosks a few years back. Not long after, they had a much-publicized effort to make liquor store employees friendlier.
Governor Corbett, in a rare display … Read more
Another setback for the unions:
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s contentious law stripping most public workers of nearly all of their collective bargaining rights in a decision hailed by Republicans but not undoing a state court ruling keeping much of the law from being in effect.
The decision marks the latest twist in a two-year battle over the law that Walker proposed in February 2011 and passed a month
(I had planned this post for Friday but delayed it for obvious reasons. I don’t expect anyone wants to discuss Right to Work at the moment, but I’ll get it out my queue. A post on Sandy Hook is coming, hopefully tomorrow night.)
I had a few thoughts on the “Right to Work” debate that is raging (literally) in Michigan and other states. While I am generally supportive of what’s going on, I think … Read more
Check out the response of the angry union bosses that lost a vote on a bill that basically did nothing more than give union members the option to choose if they wanted to pay dues to organizations that then used practically all these funds to have the leadership live like aristocracy while lavishing democrats politician’s campaigns with cash, in return for tyrannical power: “We’ll Be At Your Daughter’s Soccer Game!:
LANSING — A
Bloomberg today has an astounding report on how workers have been able to abuse compensation systems in various states:
Nine years ago, California Democrat Gray Davis became the first U.S. governor in 82 years to be recalled by voters. The state’s 20 million taxpayers still bear the cost of his four years and 10 months on the job.
Davis escalated salaries and benefits for 164,000 state workers, including a 34 percent raise for prison guards,
So I’ve been hearing rumbles of a walkout at Walmart stores on Black Friday. How’d that work out?
“The protest organizers have declined to say how many Wal- Mart associates they expect to be involved in the latest round of actions” says Bloomberg, and while the OurWalmart homepage feed contains lots of pictures of protest groups, there don’t seem to be a lot of actual Walmart employees. In fact, several rather wisful items champion
The drama continues.
A New York Judge has ordered Hostess and the kamikaze baker’s union to at least try working this out, but I think it’s too late.
Some of our own local businesses that use Wonder Bread (Arthur Bryant BBQ being one) are already being forced to switch to alternate vendors. Grocery stores also aren’t going to let that prime shelf space sit empty while this drags on, are they?
I did some contract work with IBC when it was based in Kansas City a few years ago. Around 2008-ish. Back then, the Teamsters Union was doing its best to bring about the outcome that the Baker’s Union ultimately accomplished: Death of the business. The End didn’t come since the Teamsters knew back then–as they did now–when to pull back from the brink. “Save the Twinkies, Save the World” was the vision.
Every day, I’d … Read more
How do you know the liberals are worried about the polls? Because they are dragging out things like Sensata. Apparently, Bain Capital owns a little over half of Sensata. Sensata recently bought a plant in Illinois and decided to outsource all the jobs to China. So, since Mitt Romney is part of Bain …
I understand the bitterness of the workers in Freeport, who have lost their jobs. I have no idea whether Sensata’s … Read more
Gov. Scott Walker’s law repealing most collective bargaining for local and school employees was struck down by a Dane County judge Friday, yet another dramatic twist in a year and a half saga that likely sets up another showdown in the Supreme Court.
The law remains largely in force for state workers, but for city, county, and school workers the decision by Dane County Judge Juan Colas returns the law to its status
