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  • NBC, MSNBC staffers threaten walk-out amid layoffs

    02/08/2023 9:03:55 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 82 replies
    The Hill ^ | 02-08-2023 | DOMINICK MASTRANGELO
    Staffers at NBC News and MSNBC are planning a walk-out in protest of recent workforce cuts, their union says. In a statement on Wednesday, the NBC Guild said more than 200 workers plan to walk off the job on Thursday, saying the the broadcast giant has “repeatedly broken the law, disrespected the rights of its employees, and illegally terminated hard-working union journalists.” “For three years we’ve done award-winning work without a contract that would secure fair pay, adequate raises, health & safety standards, dependable benefits, and a viable future,” the union said. “Management wants us to walk back to at-will...
  • Di Leo: Hidden Meanings in Proposed Amendment 1

    09/12/2022 4:24:16 PM PDT · by jfd1776 · 4 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | September 12, AD 2022 | John F Di Leo
    Launch YouTube, Facebook, or a search engine in Illinois these days - or worse, make the mistake of turning on the television - and you will likely be deluged with television commercials about the so-called "Workers' Rights Amendment," which will appear on our ballot across Illinois next month. Depending on the commercial, this amendment could be presented as being about anything from patients in a hospital being viewed as dollar bills, or dangers in a workplace, or a threat to a worker's right to unionize. Talk about a proposed law being “all things to all people!” In truth, this state...
  • New Mexico blocks right-to-work ordinances

    03/30/2019 10:13:36 AM PDT · by rktman · 11 replies
    apnews.com ^ | 3/27/2019 | Unknown
    <p>New Mexico is prohibiting local governments from enacting right-to-work ordinances that prevent employees from being required to join a union or pay union fees.</p> <p>Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday signed legislation that asserts the state’s exclusive jurisdiction over union security agreements.</p>
  • What’s Wrong with Country Music Today?

    05/20/2014 8:58:16 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 123 replies
    Pajamas Media ^ | 05/20/2014 | Chris Queen
    I’ve complained about the state of modern mainstream country music for a long time now. And clearly, I’m not alone. Singer-songwriter Collin Raye, one of the top country artists throughout the ’90s, recently took to Fox News to air his grievances at the state of country music today. As a platinum-selling country music artist and, more importantly, a lifelong fan of the genre, I’d like to send out this heartfelt plea to the gatekeepers of the industry:Enough already.I’d like to think that I am expressing what nearly every artist, musician and songwriter (with perhaps a few exceptions) is thinking when...
  • What the Unions Fear

    03/09/2011 4:23:24 AM PST · by Scanian · 9 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | March 9, 2011 | Peter Hannaford
    Demonstrators at the Wisconsin capitol, union representatives and absent Democratic state senators concede in interviews that they don't object to a bill requiring teachers and other public employees to pay 12.5 percent of their health insurance (up from five percent), or up to half of their pension deposits. It is the curbing of collective bargaining that has brought on near hysteria and a fierce campaign to discredit Governor Scott Walker's legislation. For the union leaders the consequences of passage of the legislation could be devastating to their sinecures. Amid all the shouting, placards and banging on pots and pans in...
  • Nooses In The News: Marine Fired By Lib College Newspaper After 3 Tours In Iraq

    11/21/2007 10:30:27 AM PST · by joeclarke · 3 replies · 97+ views
    JoeClarke.Net ^ | 11/21/2007 | JoeClarke.Net
    Marine Gabriel Keith Fired By Minnesota Community And Technical College Newspaper After Making Noose Which In No Way Could Be Understood To Be Racist. Fax the Student College News at 1-612-659-6825. Squads Of "Noose Nosers" Crawling Over Most College Campuses.Story Is Here: http://www.startribune.com/191/story/1559420.html Below Fax Sent To Disinterested Parties At MCTC and Student Newspaper Racism Under Every Rock, A Noose On Every Limb Could you please explain to me how much longer you can continue to be such patsies for these pseudo victim complaints? Whenever an "unprivileged" minority tells you to jump, you instinctively ask, "how high"? and then proceed...
  • Union-Made Miseducation

    04/13/2006 8:31:07 AM PDT · by JSedreporter · 6 replies · 458+ views
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | April 13, 2006 | Malcolm A. Kline
    Although they still claim to be the last best hope for public education, the influence of teachers’ unions has wanted so much that criticism of the association’s and federations has spread beyond conservative and Republican groups to the school boards and superintendents that they once made and broke. “There is a teacher I have hired and I don’t know if he’s with us on our team,” Baltimore Talent Development High School principal Jeffrey Robinson said at a recent meeting at the National Academies of Science. “I know the unions have their rules and something must be done about the unions.”...