A high-placed #Northwestern source believes the union receives in the range of 60 'No' votes out of 75 players.

— Chris Emma (@CEmma670) April 25, 2014

EVANSTON (CBS) — One by one, they walked out the door of Welsh-Ryan Arena. Many donned team-issued purple sweats and evaded the media scrum with backdoor detours and loud music pumping through the headphones.
An ordinary Friday morning on Northwestern’s campus was anything but. A historic occasion was taking place inside a private club of the school’s basketball arena. For the first time ever, college athletes voted on forming a players’ union. (more…)

Media Matters has spent years promoting “Card Check” unionization rules and liberal positions on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).   However, when the SEIU move to unionize the Media Matters workers they quickly jump to the NIMBY Ship.

[NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard]

(Washington Free Beacon) Leftwing lapdog Media Matters for America is taking advantage of the Republican’s “anti-union” agenda to stonewall the SEIU’s attempt to unionize its staff.
MMFA is forcing its employees to conduct a secret ballot election that will determine whether or not they can join SEIU Local 500, a Maryland union, according to papers filed with the National Labor Relations Board.
The liberal organization, which is headed by Hillary Clinton cheerleader David Brock, has hired management-side labor attorneys at Perkins Coie, a firm that has represented dozens of Democratic candidates and liberal PACs, to oversee the process. (more…)

Typical of quasi-socialist euro weenies to force individuals into the collective.   This German mindset is the same ideology which mandates months of vacations for the collective and diminishes individual effort and exceptionalism at every turn.   

At the diametric opposite end of the labor spectrum you have the Japanese auto workers and the principle of “Kaizen”; which was introduced to their manufacturing base with excellence taught by American W. Edwards Deming….   

TENNESSEE – Volkswagen may ignore the results of an election that saw workers at a plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., vote against unionizing under the United Auto Workers, or so says a group that prides itself on “warning the public about the causes and consequences of unionization.”
The group, the Center for Worker Freedom, said Volkswagen management may toss the election results and accept authorization cards collected by the UAW in 2013.
The automaker told TheBlaze in a statement that it “doesn’t comment on rumors and speculation.” (more…)

NORTH CAROLINA – House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) and Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) issued a joint statement Wednesday in response to more alarming evidence of voter error and fraud discovered by the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
Initial findings from the Board presented to the Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee today show:

• 765 voters with an exact match of first and last name, DOB and last four digits of SSN were registered in N.C. and another state and voted in N.C. and the other state in the 2012 general election.
• 35,750 voters with the same first and last name and DOB were registered in N.C. and another state and voted in both states in the 2012 general election.
• 155,692 voters with the same first and last name, DOB and last four digits of SSN were registered in N.C. and another state – and the latest date of registration or voter activity did not take place within N.C.

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But, but, but…. it’s always for the children right ?

PENNSYLVANIA – Teachers who are upset with union contract negotiations in the Abington Heights School District are taking their frustrations out on students by refusing to write letters of recommendation.
The selfish move, which is a common pressure tactic among education labor unions, will undoubtedly impact the ability of students to apply to college or other post secondary programs, although district officials contend they’re working to address the issue, the Times-Tribune reports.
Union president James Maria told the new site teachers in the district aren’t required to write students recommendation letters, and they don’t plan to until the school board reconsiders its position on retroactive pay. School and union officials have been in negotiations for a new teachers union contract since the last one expired in 2011. (more…)

According to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, blacks and minorities in New York are not capable of passing this test.    Because the blacks and minority applicants cannot pass the test it falls under the new legalese term of creating a “disparate impact’.   Therefore the test itself is racist.   Consequently he is paying $98,000,000 to all the black and minority applicants who tried to become NYC Firefighters yet failed the test.
Decide for yourself:
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Remember, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, together with Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, are committed to seeing Common Core education standards strictly enforced.  They will be running campaign attack ads against anyone who opposes “Common Core”.

“Don’t expect anything good for America until this guy is gone …….”

h/t to Doug Ross aka Director Blue

Doug Ross @ Journal has published a first hand account of a conversation a docent at the Bush Center Library had with former Senator Alan Simpson (R), co-author of the Simpson-Bowles commission report recommending fiscal reform legislation, on the outspoken former Senator’s impressions based on first-hand dealings with Barack Hussein Obama.

“….I spent the next 15 minutes (just the two of us) listening to him expound on his view of our future. His first answer was that with this president we will never make progress. He then related a story that when Bowles and Simpson requested time with the president to urge him to seriously consider their report, he was stunned by the response (as was Bowles).

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NORTH CAROLINA – On Monday, Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C). repeatedly refused to answer a simple question on when she knew people wouldn’t be able to keep their current plans under Obamacare.

Sen. Hagan promised on at least 24 separate occasions people in North Carolina would be able to keep their current health care plan — once Obamacare went into effect — if they wished to do so.

However, she dodged the question at her press conference after she made it official she’d be running for re-election.  (read more)

Meanwhile AFL-CIO sees 2014 election assistance in North Carolina as an exercise in futility  – Memo to some vulnerable Senate Democrats: Don’t wait for labor to swoop in and save you with a chest full of money and a brigade of foot soldiers to get out the vote.

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Via Weasel Zippers – WISCONSIN – Mobsters making offers that can’t be refused typically do so in the bluntest possible language, but SEIU leaders in Wisconsin are running a close second.

Gov. Scott Walker’s landmark reforms — including guaranteeing workers the right not to be forced to pay dues to a union they don’t want to join — is costing SEIU thousands of members.

The 8,385 members SEIU has lost since the reforms became law are solid evidence that before Walker came along the union depended upon force, rather than consent, to keep the dues revenue stream flowing.

Nice job ya got there (more…)