Labor Day 2025
When I was sixteen, I didn’t get a car or anything like that. My grandmother gave me my late grandfather’s union card. She bequeathed me the legacy of the working man.
Unions
Irony of dockworkers strike; A union boss should not be running the economy
Before I delve into today’s subject, I must address this report by Zero Hedge: “Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff reportedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend by hitting her in the face so hard ‘she spun around,’ according to a bombshell new exclusive by the Daily Mail.” They call him the Second Gentleman but he’s no gentleman. No …
Lack of Endorsement From Teamsters Highlights the Disconnect between Leadership and Membership
The Teamsters’ union refusal to endorse anyone for President last week is a culmination of a slow motion development within many trade unions.
2 + 2 ≠ 5
Why should the taxpayers be on the hook to pay for other people’s transportation? The money lines are far down in the story: The authority projects an annual operating deficit of $240 million beginning next July 1 as the last of its federal pandemic aid is spent, a situation dubbed the “fiscal cliff” that afflicts …
The Plague of Government Unions
It was actually a minor line in an article by Robert Stacy McCain about Democrats not accepting election results that didn’t go their way, but one I found very important: Government employee unions are a conspiracy against taxpayers, and when the people of Wisconsin elected (Scott) Walker to fight these unions, Democrats refused to accept …