Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
Resignation Leaves NLRB With Partisan Board
Sean Higgins discusses the high probability of an all-Democrat National Labor Relations Board in the Washington Times: Like much of the rest of Washington, the supposedly independent National Labor Relations Board has been the scene of bare-knuckled partisan conflict for years now. But the White House may have finally found a way to resolve that:…
Read MoreMichigan Unions Demonstrate Against Freedom
Michael Reagan comments on Big Labor’s violence during passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law. All those union thugs who were rioting in Michigan last week were angry about the wrong thing. They were demonstrating – which in union-speak means breaking things and punching people – against Michigan’s decision to become a right-to-work state. If…
Read MorePresident Misrepresents Michigan Right To Work Laws
ThisPittsburgh Tribune editorial comments on President Obama’s scorn for a Right to Work law, and a toast fora 25th! The most shocking thing about Michigan’s right-to-work law isn’t the law itself but the outright lies the Obama administration, led by the president himself, has been telling about it. But President Obama, ever the demagogue of…
Read More“There Will Be Blood”: Union Violence in the Age of Obama
From Michelle Malkin, a short overview on union violence, including the incidents which accompanied passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law. Not so many moons ago, President Obama urged us all to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.” He Who Heals…
Read MorePresident Obama, Union Bosses Shed Crocodile Tears Over Math-Science Teacher Shortage
Daily Kos: President Obama’s remarks at Green Bay, WI, campaign … NEA Recognizes Need for STEM Teachers – Michigan Capitol … As Election Day nears, one of the few specific second-term initiatives President Obama is campaigning on is to “recruit 100,000 math and science teachers so that high-tech, high-wage jobs aren’t created in China, they’re created right here in…
Read MoreMIX: Democratic Party’s Big Labor backbone
Right to Work top target for union allies By Mark Mix Tuesday, October 9, 2012 As President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden campaign for re-election, they feel compelled time and again to remind anyone who has gathered to hear them that America’s economic troubles started well before they got to the White…
Read MoreBig Labor Ambivalent, but Rallies With Obama
Despite all of President Obama’s paybacks during the last four years, including the Obamacare bill, and the UAW bailout, to name 2, some Big Labor officials are refraining to participate, endorse and otherwise support the incumbent president. The last straw seemed to be a convention held in a Right to Work state with the nation’s…
Read MoreOhio Needs Right to Work Law to Obtain Economic Advantage
While Barack Obama puts Right to Work laws down in Labor Day stump speeches in Ohio, Big Labor apologists cannot deny Ohio’s economy is not flourishing. Although Ohio labor bosses and their supporting politicians believe Big Labor can control the upcoming elections’ results, things are not looking as rosy as they would like: almost half of…
Read MoreIs the Last Refuge to Which Forced Unionism Clings, ‘It’s Good For Barack Obama’?
The national, non-union, conventions Even if you fail to notice the days are getting shorter and the leaves are beginning to change color, you can always tell summer is coming to an end when fusty “mainstream” newspapers like the LA Times turn their op-ed pages over to a high-ranking union official or an academic apologist for…
Read More3 Fallacies in Obama’s Public-Sector Stimulus Strategy
reason.com, June 19, 2012 Poor President Obama. Life under the White House klieg lights must seem soooo unfair. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been saying since last year that although “private-sector jobs have been doing just fine,” public-sector jobs need help with another $35 billion in stimulus spending, without raising an eyebrow. But the president…
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