Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) claims he is struggling with $174K salary WATCH ON BLIPTV:
The Examiner: Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) claims he is struggling with $174K salary *March 29, 2011- *United States Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI) told a constituent that he was struggling to get by on his $174,000 salary while in Congress, but still claimed that all public employees, including himself, take a pay cut. Duffy made ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Rich are getting richer? Exactly right There's a noisy band of American inequality deniers who are trying to convince us otherwise. *March 29, 2011-* Steven Cunningham ("The rich are getting richer -- right?" March 25) tells us that the rich in America aren't getting richer. To ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Judge again blocks GOP collective-bargaining plan But Van Hollen assistant says law is in effect *March 29, 2011-* For the second time in less than two weeks, a Dane County judge Tuesday issued an order blocking the implementation of Gov. Scott Walker's plan to curb collective bargaining for public ...
Washington Post: Wisconsin judge halts state from moving forward on law stripping collective bargaining rights *March 29, 2011-* The showdown over Wisconsin’s explosive union bargaining law shifted from the Statehouse back to the courthouse on Tuesday, but it remained unclear when or even whether the measure would take effect. Republican lawmakers pushed ...
Rachel Maddow: GOP Brings Unpopular Anti-Labor Ideas to Federal Level WATCH ON MSNBC:
AlterNet: Koch-Backed Right-Wing Group Goes After More Professors, Asking for Emails on Unions and ... Rachel Maddow? *March 29, 2011-* Union busters have long relied on scare tactics to boost anti-worker legislation -- fear, threats and intimidation are standard fare for politicians trying to weaken labor laws, and can be effective if they're holding, say, your ...
The Nation: Fitzwalkerstan's Attorney General Decides the Law Does Not Apply to Republicans *March 29, 2011-* Never let it be said that Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, the most rigid partisan ever to hold the state’s top law-enforcement position, does not take care of his own. Van Hollen is the latest official to reject the rule ...
AlterNet: The GOP's Absurd Plan for the Economy: Lowering YOUR Wages *The GOP is embracing some very dangerous voodoo economics.* *March 28, 2011-* Earlier this month, House Republicans laid out a perverse plan to lower working Americans' wages, supposedly in a bid to get employers to hire more of them (PDF). One ...
LaCrosse Tribune: Our view: Fitzgerald shows why openness matters *March 29, 2011-* “It’s my opinion it’s published, it’s on the legislative website, it’s law.” — Scott Fitzgerald, Republic majority leader, Wisconsin Senate There you have it. Wisconsin is no longer ruled as a state of laws but as a state of ...
Think Progress: EXCLUSIVE: DeMint Tells ThinkProgress He Wants To Strip All Federal Employees Of Collective Bargaining Rights*ThinkProgress filed this report from the Conservative Principles Conference in Des Moines, IA.* *March 28, 2011-* The defining political story three months into 2011 is the spread of anti-union legislation in the states. Now, a leading senator on ...
Cenk Uygur: UK Faces Its Own Budget Battle WATCH ON MSNBC:
Florida Sun Sentinel: Gov. Scott's drug testing order makes little fiscal or policy sense *March 28, 2011-* It never bodes well when a new boss comes in and immediately institutes a sweeping, potentially costly initiative that at its heart speaks of an underlying distrust of the employees he is now leading. Such is the case with Gov. Rick ...
Twin Cities Daily Planet: No jobs bill, but more than 50 anti-worker bills introduced by GOP in Minnesota state legislature *March 29, 2011-* As the Labor Review went to press, the Minnesota state legislature faced a March 25 deadline for action on major appropriation and finance bills. Members of the new Republican majorities in the Minnesota House and Senate ran in the ...
The Young Turks: Massive Education Cuts In Pennsylvania WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Poor schools take biggest budget hit *March 27, 2011-* Under other circumstances, officials of the Clairton City School District would be joyful over being ranked fourth out of 500 school districts in the state. But the recent list that gave the district that designation is one that ...
Washington Independent: FreedomWorks heads to Pennsylvania where groups hopes to quash unions *March 28, 2011-* Breaking away from their fiscal policy roots, tea party groups lately have been sinking their hooks into all matters of American policy, from collective bargaining rights to education. On Tuesday, a number of tea party organizations ...
Ed Schultz: Robert Greenwald Discusses Film Koch Brothers Exposed WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
