Priceless! Apparently Santa Ana Councilman Carlos Bustamante, who is a Republican, “voted at the May 4 council meeting in favor of a resolution supporting the federal Employee Free Choice Act, otherwise known as “card check,” according to Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham over at the Red County blog.
Matt also explained what card check is, for the uninformed, “the intent of “card check” is to change how workers decide whether or not to organize with a union. Currently, it is done by secret ballot, in keeping with American tradition.”
The irony is that Matt raised a ton of money last year to attack my council campaign against Bustamante! He did this even though I have been a consistent voice against union hackery. Unlike Matt’s buddies Curt Pringle, Ken Maddox and Jim Silva, not to mention Todd Spitzer, I opposed the Orange County Project Labor Agreement - which shut non-union contractors out of bidding on county public works projects for several years. Read more…
That’s the spending constraint/tax extension measure on the May 19 ballot.
The donation by SEIU is the largest to date in the No on 1A campaign, coming on the heels of low six-figure contributions from the California Faculty Association, the California Federation of Teachers and SEIU (again) last week.
So far the union-led No on 1A forces have raised just under $900,000.Read more…
ORANGE COUNTY PREMIERE OF “VIVA LA CAUSA”
A Southern Poverty Law Center Teaching Tolerance Film
Contact: Ross Romero FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cell Phone: (714) 875-6842
DATE/TIME: Saturday April 4th, 2009, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
LOCATION: The Historic Yost Theater
307 N. Spurgeon Street, Santa Ana, CA 92701
The Dolores Huerta Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit public charity, in association with The Fiesta Marketplace, a merchant’s association in downtown Santa Ana, is hosting a FREE screening of “Viva La Causa.” The documentary film focuses on one of the most influential and historical events in the struggle for farm worker human rights - the first grape strike and nationwide boycott in the 1960s led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Directed by Bill Brummel of Bill Brummel Productions, the film was made by the Southern Poverty Law Center for use in their Teaching Tolerance program. Read more…
Do we really need more union thugs in American workplaces - right now during the Bush Depression?
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“Whether you label it the “card check” bill or the Employee Free Choice Act, you can also call it something else — in deep trouble. Key senators this week appeared to cripple prospects for passing the highly polarizing measure, the labor movement’s top priority in Congress, which is aimed at making it easier for workers to join unions,” according to the L.A. Times.
Hooray! There is NO good reason to take away a worker’s right to privacy in union elections. This was an obvious attempt by unions to force their way into more companies. To do this during the worst economic recession in our lifetimes is crazy - but that is how greedy the union thugs amongst us are. Read more…
Immigration activists “are devising a proposal in which millions of undocumented workers would be legalized now, while the number of foreign workers allowed to enter the country would be examined by a new independent commission, and probably reduced,” according to the L.A. Times.
Here are a few more excerpts regarding the immigration proposal being considered by President Obama, from the L.A. Times:
Any new legalization plan is likely to look similar in some respects to the bill crafted by McCain and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), which stalled most recently in 2007. Opponents had decried the measure as “amnesty,” but it would have required undocumented workers to pay a fine and back taxes and to wait longer than other applicants for permanent residency status. Read more…
What a bunch of hackish union thugs! “Dozens of protesters rallied Thursday outside a CVS pharmacy in downtown Santa Ana, their grievances against the drugstore giant summed up by an expired box of infant gas medicine,” according to the O.C. Register.
It figures that these union creeps were trying to buy fart pills!
“The protest was part of a national campaign to spotlight what critics of CVS – including California’s attorney general – have described as a persistent problem with outdated products on its shelves.”
California’s Attorney General? You mean the union sycophant Jerry Brown? Read more…
Will Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido call for the bankruptcy play?
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Good news for the City of Santa Ana! Apparently the Santa Ana City Council and City Manager can declare bankruptcy and get out of their onerous deals with public employee unions.
Here is what the O.C. Register is reporting about this in an editorial:
The Northern California city of Vallejo is in worse shape than most cities and has declared bankruptcy because of the ridiculous deals union-dominated politicians voted to give the city’s workers. Now the same unions that virtually destroyed the city have been battling the city’s efforts to rein in the contracts and renegotiate these unsustainable deals. Union recalcitrance has cost the city millions, but, fortunately, a bankruptcy judge ruled Friday that federal bankruptcy law trumps California labor law. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Michael McManus ruled that, “As established by the Supreme Court … a debtor may utilize [the law]to reject an unexpired collective bargaining agreement if the debtor shows: … the collective bargaining agreement burdens the estate.”
The City of Santa Ana recently began to lay off employees. Never mind that. Time to file BK!
“More than 1 in 10 California workers were unemployed in January, the largest percentage in nearly 26 years, the state reported today,” according to the L.A. Times.
The Orange Juice blog is offering this thread as a place for our readers to place comments regarding new jobs they are aware of, here in Orange County.
How about a job with our newly funded state government? “The California Employment Development Department — better known as the unemployment office — is hanging out the help wanted sign, with plans to hire 402 statewide, 30 in Orange County,” according to the O.C. Register. Click here to find out how to apply.
Okay readers - if you know of any good jobs available locally please post them as comments to this thread, and we will try to get our fellow Orange County residents working again!
The Bush Depression is taking a terrible toll on our immigrant communities, according to an article in the O.C. Register. Here are a few excerpts from that article:
The information revealed the unemployment rate for foreign-born Hispanics — legal and illegal — increased by nearly 3 percent in 2008, according to the report.
During the same period, unemployment rose for all people in the labor market by 2 percent. Although unemployment rates for foreign-born Hispanics and blacks are about the same, other factors such as higher employment rates for blacks meant foreign-born Hispanics were hardest-hit by the economic downturn. Read more…
“Last week, Obama quietly issued an executive order that, as The Associated Press described, “encourages federal agencies to have construction contractors and subcontractors enter project labor agreements. Those agreements require contractors to negotiate with union officials, recognize union wages and benefits and generally abide by collective-bargaining agreements,” according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
What does it all mean? Here is an explanation from the same editorial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
It means the competitive bidding process for federal contracts, intended to protect taxpayers, is being undermined. It means the 84 percent of construction workers who don’t belong to labor unions will likely be discriminated against; they’ll be left to choose between joining a union and, essentially, not working. It means big labor – which spent millions of dollars helping elect Obama – is getting a huge payoff. It means we should prepare our pocketbooks for even more costly quid pro quo from Obama. Most disturbingly, though, it means exponentially higher labor costs for taxpayer-funded federal government projects at a time when our nation is trying to pull itself out of a fiscal ditch.
What it means is that only union contractors will be able to bid on big federal projects. So non-union workers will get the shaft - even though they make up the great majority of the U.S. workforce. Read more…
“The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) blasted a web video to 60,000 online activists Friday asking them to support Congresswoman Hilda Solis’s confirmation,” according to Hill.com. In the video, SEIU President Andy Stern asks viewers to sign a petition to back the California Democrat for the Labor position.
The head of the SEIU had this to say about the opposition to Solis: “Sadly, conservative Republicans — people who blocked the minimum wage, children’s health insurance — are now using the same old Washington tactics trying to stop Secretary Solis from being confirmed. She has every qualification for someone we need to lead the Secretary’s role at the Department of Labor.” Read more…
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