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  • Josh Shapiro’s ‘Moderate’ Mask Slips: Demands Pennsylvania Workers Join Unions or Else

    08/30/2025 4:56:42 AM PDT · by Kid Shelleen · 6 replies
    Twitchy ^ | 08/31/2025 | Justmindy
    Apparently, Josh Shapiro thinks forcing workers to give their money to a group in order to work so they can then donate money to the Democratic Party and other Leftist causes is something to brag about. --SNIP-- They all are 'moderate' until they get elected.
  • At least 600 CDC employees are getting final termination notices, union says

    08/21/2025 10:38:52 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 13 replies
    Scripps News ^ | 8:49 AM, Aug 21, 2025 | AP via Scripps News Group
    The permanent cuts include about 100 people who worked in violence prevention. At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are receiving permanent termination notices in the wake of a recent court decision that protected some CDC employees from layoffs but not others. The notices went out this week and many people have not yet received them, according to the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 2,000 dues-paying members at CDC. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday did not offer details on the layoffs and referred an AP reporter...
  • California’s richest agricultural family is shuttering a farm the UFW sought to unionize

    08/13/2025 3:08:10 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | Aug. 13, 2025 3 AM PT | Melissa Gomez
    Hundreds of employees are losing jobs at a grape nursery owned by Wonderful Co., one of the state’s biggest agricultural operations. The company says it is unrelated to a contentious battle by the United Farm Workers to unionize workers at the nursery in Kern County. One of California’s largest agricultural employers plans to close a Central Valley grape nursery by the end of the year after laying off hundreds of employees, including many supportive of a United Farm Workers effort to unionize the workforce. Wonderful Co., owned by billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick, plans to shut down the majority of...
  • Randi Weingarten just promoted her new book calling those on the side of parents "Fascists."

    08/13/2025 10:03:10 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 59 replies
    X ^ | 13 August 2025 | Corey A DeAngelis
    Randi Weingarten just promoted her new book calling those on the side of parents "Fascists." She's wearing a shirt that says "Protect Our Kids." She thinks she owns your kids. Wake up, parents. Dismantle the teachers unions.
  • Immigration crackdown causing ‘Trump slump’ in Las Vegas tourism, unions say

    08/12/2025 7:49:32 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 90 replies
    Yahoo! ^ | August 11, 2025 | Michael Sainato
    The Trump administration’s immigration policies are affecting workers and driving, in part, a decline in tourism, including international tourists, to Las Vegas, according to workers and the largest labor union in the state of Nevada. Visitors to Las Vegas overall dropped 11.3% in June 2025, compared to the same month last year. According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, international visitors to one of the world’s largest tourist destinations dropped 13% in June. “A lot of departments are having a lot of layoffs,” said ​​Norma Torres, a housekeeper for eight years at Mandalay Bay and a member of...
  • L.A. passed a $30 minimum wage for tourism workers. Then came the warring ballot measures

    08/11/2025 6:19:03 PM PDT · by Salman · 14 replies
    The Los Angeles Times via Yahoo ^ | August 10, 2025 | David Zahniser, Suhauna Hussain
    It's the summer of the burn-it-down ballot measure in Los Angeles. For the past three months, labor unions and business groups have been locked in a protracted fight over a law, approved by the City Council in May, hiking the minimum wage for hotel employees and workers at Los Angeles International Airport to $30 per hour by 2028. Both sides, in an attempt to gain the upper hand, have proposed ballot measures that, if approved, would disrupt the city in enormous ways, leaving an impact that would go well beyond the hourly pay of housekeepers, valets and LAX skycaps. Unite...
  • Teamsters pour money into GOP, shifting away from Dems

    08/11/2025 1:10:53 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 4 replies
    Politico ^ | 08/11/2025 10:58 AM EDT | Adam Wren
    After years of loyally backing Democrats, Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien is diversifying the union's PAC to support Republicans, too. It wasn’t just 2024: the Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien is signaling a more permanent realignment by donating to battleground Republicans in the upcoming midterms. For the second year in a row, the labor union’s political arm donated to the Republicans’ House campaign arm after nearly two decades of mostly backing Democrats. The labor union’s D.R.I.V.E political action committee — Democrat, Republican, Independent Voter Education — gave the National Republican Congressional Committee $5,000 in the second quarter. In addition to...
  • Teamsters Dole Out Cash To GOP Candidates As Union Boss Argues Dems Have Abandoned Working People

    08/11/2025 9:25:28 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 24 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | August 11, 2025 | Adam Pack, Reporter
    Republicans are continuing to receive labor union support amid Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien repeatedly lambasting Democrats for allegedly deserting the working class. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Democrat, Republican, Independent Voter Education (DRIVE) PAC has doled out nearly $70,000 to Republicans this year. The donations mark the second cycle in a row that the Teamsters’ political arm has donated to Republican candidates after contributing to Democrats exclusively for roughly two decades. “Our members are working people whose interests cut across party lines,” Kara Deniz, a Teamsters spokesperson told POLITICO’s Playbook, who was first to report the DRIVE PAC contributions....
  • Town Hall Project Founded By Former Clinton Staffer

    02/22/2017 7:22:13 PM PST · by MarvinStinson · 10 replies
    freebeacon ^ | February 22, 2017 | Joe Schoffstall
    A group serving as a central hub of information for congressional town halls was founded by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer and its parent company is located at the same address as an organization funded by liberal billionaire George Soros. Democrats have insisted that recent town hall outbursts against Republican politicians occurred organically, likening them to the Tea Party, while President Donald Trump yesterday tweeted that the "so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, in numerous occasions, planned out by liberal activists. Sad!" The Town Hall Project, a group that serves as a one-stop shop...
  • Appeals court sides with Trump on stopping union bargaining for federal workers

    08/02/2025 10:45:27 AM PDT · by CFW · 14 replies
    Just the News ^ | 8/2/25 | Nicholas Ballasy
    A federal appeals court lifted a judge's order on Friday that prevented the Trump administration from ending union bargaining for federal workers. Six unions, including the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), had obtained an injunction that was issued by U.S. District Judge James Donato, a lower court judge. A three-judge panel on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paused the injunction, which prevented 21 federal agencies from implementing Trump's executive order from March ending union bargaining for federal workers.
  • Oklahoma Introduces ‘America First’ Test for Teachers Moving from Liberal States

    08/02/2025 7:05:08 AM PDT · by george76 · 45 replies
    Slay News ^ | August 1, 2025 | David Lindfield
    Oklahoma is taking a bold step to preserve educational integrity and curb the growing threat of left-wing indoctrination in schools. The state’s Superintendent, Ryan Walters, announced this week that Oklahoma will become the first state to require teachers relocating from liberal-leaning states to pass a new certification test that ensures they align with Oklahoma’s curriculum standards. In a statement, Walters emphasized that the state’s new approach is designed to weed out any “woke” influences and prevent leftist ideologies from infiltrating Oklahoma’s classrooms. He explained that the new test, developed in collaboration with conservative think tank PragerU, will focus on fundamental...
  • 50 years after disappearance, files reveal final photos of Jimmy Hoffa

    07/29/2025 5:18:36 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 19 replies
    NBC 5 Chicago ^ | 7/29/26 | Chuck Goudie
    Jimmy Hoffa’s final morning on earth, in late July 1975, began with a photo session at his suburban Detroit lakefront home, and thanks to government files, we can see those images 50 years after his disappearance. The portly labor icon posed for photos on July 30, 1975, and then drove to a scheduled luncheon meeting with a pair of hoodlums from Detroit and New Jersey. The mobsters never showed, standing up Hoffa, and the famed labor leader himself was never seen again. Hoffa remained officially missing for seven years, and was declared dead in 1982.
  • Boeing's contract offer rejected by union members

    07/28/2025 12:30:50 PM PDT · by Salman · 8 replies
    Reuters via Yahoo ^ | July 27, 2025 | Rishabh Jaiswal and Angela Christy
    Union members who assemble Boeing's fighter jets in the St. Louis area have "overwhelmingly voted" to reject the company's contract offer on Sunday, with the company now preparing for an imminent strike. Boeing's proposal, which was sent on Tuesday to more than 3,200 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 837, included a 20% general wage increase over four years and a $5,000 ratification bonus, as well as more vacation time and sick leave. "The proposal from Boeing Defense fell short of addressing the priorities and sacrifices of the skilled IAM Union workforce," the IAM...
  • Unions, good government groups urge rejection of Trump’s OSC nominee

    07/24/2025 10:57:08 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 13 replies
    Government Executive ^ | 22/7/25 | Erich Wagner
    More than 20 federal employee unions, professional associations and good government groups on Monday urged Senate lawmakers to reject President Trump’s ... ..... “By law, the special counsel must be ‘an attorney who, by demonstrated ability, background, training and experience, is especially qualified to carry out the functions of the position,’” the groups wrote. “As head of OSC, the special counsel should be someone who respects federal workers, who will treat them fairly and without bias. The special counsel must be a person who will exercise their duties in a nonpartisan manner, a person of honesty and integrity who has...
  • Largest Teachers' Union in United States Erases Jews From the Holocaust

    07/24/2025 8:31:16 AM PDT · by Racketeer · 57 replies
    The Washington Free Beacon ^ | July 23, 2025 | Alana Goodman
    The NEA described the Holocaust as having '12 million victims' from 'different faiths' without mentioning the attempted extermination of the Jewish people The nation's largest teachers' union plans to promote a version of Holocaust remembrance that does not mention Jews, according to its 2025 handbook, which references "victims of the Holocaust from different faiths" and teaches that Israel was founded through "forced, violent displacement and dispossession," its most recent guide for members shows. The National Education Association, which represents nearly three million public school teachers and education workers, outlined the priorities in its 2025 handbook. The NEA publishes the document...
  • The Morning Briefing: GOP Finally Gets the Importance of Nuking Teachers' Unions

    07/22/2025 5:08:47 AM PDT · by george76 · 40 replies
    PJ Media ^ | July 21, 2025 | Stephen Kruiser
    School choice and the plague of the public school indoctrination mills .. Media bias and school choice .. The leftist indoctrination of American school children ... is at the root of most of the ills that plague this country... Republican politicians paid lip-service to education reform and — in typical GOP fashion — left it at that. As part of his efforts to introduce a spine into Republican politics, President Trump has set his sights on the Death Star, aka the Department of Education (DoE). .. The teachers' unions are the root of all evil in this battle. ... Labor...
  • Documents: White House, DOJ Communicated Over Memo Targeting Parents at School Board Meetings

    07/19/2025 7:22:26 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 7 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | 18 Jul, 2025 | Mary Chastain
    “We’re aware; the challenge here is finding a federal hook. But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist in some form or fashion.”America First Legal shared documents with Fox News showing communication between the Biden White House and the DOJ over the memo that demonized protesting parents at school board meetings. Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland’s memo weaponized the FBI against these parents after the National School Boards Association begged former President Joe Biden’s administration to intervene. The NSBA described the protests as “a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.” The memo came out on October 4,...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Congressional Republicans To Unveil Bill Stripping National Education Association’s Federal Charter

    07/15/2025 2:13:42 PM PDT · by DFG · 30 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 07/15/2025 | Derek VanBuskirk
    Congressional Republicans will unveil a bill Wednesday aimed at revoking the federal charter of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States, the Daily Caller has learned. Republicans Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina and Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee will introduce the National Education Association Charter Repeal Act in their respective chambers, aiming to sever the union from its congressional ties, a congressional aide told the Caller. Founded in 1857, the NEA received its charter from Congress in 1906 and now represents over 3 million educators nationwide. However, Harris said that the NEA has...
  • We’re Jewish schoolteachers — our union’s vote against the ADL attacks us too

    07/12/2025 2:02:55 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 11 replies
    New York Post ^ | July 9, 2025 | ebecca Kotok and Brenda Green
    As veteran public school teachers and longtime members of the National Education Association teachers’ union, we believe deeply in the transformative power of education — to inspire empathy, build bridges and create safer, more inclusive communities. That’s why we were appalled by the NEA’s recent decision to adopt a measure that would prohibit use of educational materials from the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL’s “No Place for Hate” program, a student-led program aimed at fostering schools free from hate and bias, has been implemented in more than 2,000 schools across the country. It has made a measurable, positive impact on school...
  • Largest US teachers union mocked for misspelling ‘fascism’ in anti-Trump agenda item: ‘Too rich to parody’

    07/10/2025 6:29:06 PM PDT · by Libloather · 35 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/10/25 | Victor Nava
    The nation’s largest teachers union faced ridicule this week for misspelling “fascism” in a resolution opposing President Trump. The National Education Association (NEA), which represents more than 3 million teachers nationwide, approved the mangled proposal – aimed at defending “the survival of civilization itself” – on Sunday at the group’s annual convention. “NEA pledges to defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term facism [sic] in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump’s program and actions,” read the adopted agenda item, obtained by conservative education expert Corey A. DeAngelis, who shared it on X. “The members and...