Things were so bad for Speaker John Boehner Thursday night, support for his Plan B tax bill so diminished, the limits of his power with his own party laid bare, that he stood in front of the House Republican Conference and recited the Serenity Prayer. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I [...]
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Supreme Court Rules Against SEIU
SCOTUSBLOG: The union dues case may be quite significant — there is not only the dissent but a narrower concurring opinion that says that “[t]he majority thus decides, for the very first time, that the First Amendment does require an opt-in system in some circumstances [for union dues]: the levying of a special assessment or [...]
Obama & Democratic Party Pick Right-to-Work Over Labor
TM NOTE: Art Pronin wrote “Progressive Notes” in 2011. This year I’ve asked him to take a look at Democratic and progressive support for the reelection of Pres. Obama, versus the policies actually implemented and decisions made, asking what are Democratic Party members getting for their votes? Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive [...]
Progressive Notes: Labor Goes to War over Gangs’ Cuts
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Labor goes to war over the Gangsters of Six criminal plan. The tone is changing fast. All I know now is labor must come out and announce no union help will come in 2012 to any Democrat who supports these kind of cuts. AFL-CIO’s Trumka damns [...]
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