Aldermen urge firefighters to take pay freeze rather than cuts
Source: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mayor Tom Barrett's proposed 2010 budget calls for cutting ladder truck crews from five firefighters to four in the last eight ladder companies that still have five-member crews, and for closing one ladder company and one pumper engine company.
The citizens in an Arizona municipality are being protected by a for-profit company when it comes to fire and ems. Their own standards say that they are to respond with as few personal and apparatus as position in order to save the company money.
Another stupid idea from the AFL-CIO
Source: Pajamas Media
"Puritanism," said H.L. Mencken, is "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." According to Thea Lee, policy director at the AFL-CIO,
AFL-CIO, Dems push new Wall Street tax
Source:
The nation's largest labor union and some allied Democrats are pushing a new tax that would hit big investment firms such as Goldman Sachs reaping billions of dollars in profits while the rest of the economy sputters.
We have another pending bill that does what should have been done along time ago. Every Federal firefighter must have pay equity with every other Federal firefighter. What more need I say about this issue?
Arlen Specter's charm offensive
Source: Politico
excerpt: ""–Arlen Specter has been a Republican officeholder for more than 40 years, but you hardly would have known it Saturday when he made his debut in front of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.""
PARTY OF NO: New Ad Puts Heat On Congressional Republicans
Source: CNN
(CNN) – One of America's largest labor unions is teaming up with a prominent liberal interest group to target congressional Republicans' economic polices, calling the GOP the "party of no" in a new national ad buy coming only days before President Obama's first 100 days comes t …
The AFL-CIO and "nationalization"
Source: WSWS
The AFL-CIO Executive Council, at its annual winter meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, adopted a resolution Thursday urging the Obama administration to temporarily nationalize failing banks.