NILRR Newsclips 09 28 2011

ILWU President Surrenders to Police On Charges Related to Violent Demonstration

Daily Labor Report Online, 9/27/2011

Demonstrators—many wielding baseball bats or
crowbars—forced open locked gates, sabotaged rail cars, dumped grain on the
tracks, smashed windows of a guard shack, and dragged a security officer out of
his car and drove the car into a ditch.

Your taxpayer dollars at work:  Obama’s Labor Secretary To Headline AFL-CIO
Union Organizing Summit Targeting Young Workers

Biggovernment.com, 9/27/2011

In yet another example the Obama Administration’s pandering
to its union cronies while thumbing its nose at the other 88% of America that is
union free, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will be headlining (at taxpayer expense)
to an AFL-CIO “summit†later this week in Minneapolis. The subject of the
conference? How to unionize young people (and others).

Unions: The Cause of Michigan’s Malaise

Reason.com, 9/27/2011

Aggressively pursuing a pro-union agenda with unemployment
stubbornly stuck at 9.1 percent would work if Obama wanted to be a kamikaze
president, hell-bent on self-destructing. Unions protect wages at the cost of
jobs—the main reason they are in trouble in Michigan.

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