Steve "Smitty" Smith, another IBEW organizer and a retired 36-year lineman who is also on the trip wrote, "How important is Madison to me? My mom and my dad (a retired postal worker) live very modestly on his pension. Yet they offered … [Read more...]
Scott Walker’s Plummeting Poll Numbers
Moreover, the polling results belie Governor Walker and his lieutenant's claims that they have the backing of most of the state's residents. The survey asked: "If state workers agree to pay more for healthcare and retirement as the Governor … [Read more...]
Rally for Wisconsin! (on Beacon Hill)
Tuesday, February 22 · 4:00pm - 6:00pm Location Massachusetts State House http://www.facebook.com/pages/... Support the Rights of Wisconsin Workers Tuesday, February 22nd 4-6PM Massachusetts State House Join workers from across … [Read more...]
Labor Day thoughts (with link to commercial for working people)
Labor Day is coming up. I hope all everyone gets a chance to enjoy some time with their friends and families. This is the holiday brought to you by the labor movement. What is the labor movement? It's people just like yourself, working … [Read more...]
More defy alcohol tax repeal
The State House News Service reported yesterday that the coalition opposing Question 1, which would repeal last summer's application of the sales tax to retail alcohol sales, has signed up a pair of major new members. The AFL-CIO of … [Read more...]
On Online Brainstorming, Or, “Hey, Unions…Wanna Grow?”
Credit Where Credit Is Due Dept.: We're having this conversation today because of a back and forth between StratfordDem and myself over at Blue Hampshire, as I mentioned above, and the ideas that you'll hear here are hardly my own-in fact, … [Read more...]
DREAM Now Recap: The Ghost of Virgil Goode Possesses the Republican Party
Last week, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and the nativist organization NumbersUSA were behind a political effort to release an inflammatory memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The memo was released with the … [Read more...]
Study: Construction Unions Strengthen Mass. Economy
They found that union workers earn an average of $13 dollars more per hour than nonunion workers in the Bay State's construction industry. When benefits are included, they average $28.35 more per hour than their nonunion counterparts. … [Read more...]
Deval and the Unions: Part 2
For whatever reason the Mass AFL-CIO seems to be dominated by the hysterical police and fire unions. This story in the Globe today: Some patrolmen object to paper's Obama depictions is illustrative. If one ever gets a chance to read … [Read more...]
Rep. Stephen Lynch: “Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege”
Massachusetts Congressman -- and former union ironworker -- Stephen Lynch recently sat down with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to talk about the labor movement and the status of vital pro-worker legislation -- like the … [Read more...]