In what has to be the ultimate in entitlement think, a union official in Allentown, Pennsylvania is considering filing a lawsuit against the city for allowing a Boy Scout to do volunteer work on city...
Today is the 146th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. The speech given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19th, 1863 is one of the most famous speeches in American history. Four and a half months after...
created by Gordon Clark | 4 days ago | updated 4 days ago 91 views | 16 recommendations | 5 comments
"Nearly 30% of school staff have been the subject of a false allegation of misconduct by a pupil, a survey by a teaching union suggests.The Association of Teachers and Lecturers said false claims blighted careers and damaged private lives. The ATL, which surveyed 1,155...
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The 5 days old mass "sick-leave" strike by the pilots of Indian airliner Jet Airways that crippled the services of the carrier finally ended. The striking pilot's union - National Aviator's Guild - and the...
The United States is planning on charging $10-$20 for issuing previously free visas to citizens of the European Union and other visa-excempt countries. The EU and the US have an agreement that allows EU citizens and others that live in countries participating in the visa...
340 unionized locomotive engineers walked off the job Friday afternoon, after a noon deadline passed without a new contract. This essentialy shut down all passenger rail travel in Canada. In a joint...
" Four European Union countries and Turkey have signed an agreement to construct the long-planned 3,300km Nabucco natural gas pipeline. Once completed, the line will bring up to 31 billion cubic metres of gas a...
Update 2: Add to the Insult, Macleans Magazine's Cover feature Mayor Miller in a garbage can with a banana peel with raccoons all around him. That adds to more insult to the city and brownie point to the unions. Yikes, now we know who Maclean sided with!Update:...
opinion by cmegkp | 19 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago 678 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
Allll riiiigght! America's heavyweight automaker has reentered the fray, "leaner and meaner", we hope! At least, that's what's been reported by the Associated Press. So,...
opinion by Mortal | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago 182 views | 8 recommendations | 2 comments
Rick Boardman can say all he wants to a reporter for the Enid (Okla.) News & Eagle — as he does in this video — in an attempt to justify the decision to strike that garnered support of 94 percent of the union members for whom he serves as president. What he...
Lightning strikes are unpredictable. Labor union strikes…not so much. Both, however, can be damaging. When I was growing up in Enid, Okla., a small northwest Oklahoma town of 47,000, lightning was a...
By, Uwe Paschen. Could this be the beginning of the end for Capitalism? On Saturday another demonstration took place with an estimated 100,000 Workers marching through Berlin in protest and anger. Stating on...
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By Bob McCarty There I was, in a Grand Junction, Colo., hotel room killing time while waiting for the my trip-related activities (see BMW Visiting Western Colorado’s Piceance Basin for details) to begin this...
" The BBC has warned staff who refuse to cross picket lines during two days of strike action next month that they will not be paid. The corporation's TV, radio and online news output is expected to be disrupted on...
created by itslefty | 34 wks ago | updated 34 wks ago 161 views | 4 recommendations | 4 comments
Rep. Gary Peters (D-Michigan) attacked AIG for not renegotiating their “iron clad” contracts the same way the auto workers union (UAW) was forced to do during the recent car-maker bailouts. “In my...