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Me and My Rich Ass Friends

By JeffLieber
From dailykos.com
March 21st, 2011

dailykos.com — The union people of have it all.

Board any airplane in America... visit first class (if they'll let ya)... and EVERY SEAT will be filled with a Supervisor of Community Services or a Legal Advisor For Family Welfare or a Executive Liaison To The Counsel On Elder Care For The Greater Milwaukee Area.

Who do you ALWAYS see behind the wheel of a new Bentley Mulsanne (the one with the baby Rhino skin seats)... someone like Mrs. Witherspoon, substitute health teacher for K-5 at George Washington Elementary in Fon Du Lac.

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The Fleecing Taxpayers Bait-and-Switch

By Sam Pizzigati
March 6, 2011

Lavishly paid corporate executives, flush with tax-deductible taxpayer dollars, have plenty of reason to relish the right-wing assault on 'overpaid' public employees. But we can wipe that grin off their faces.

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Unions badgering Wisconsin's finances?

By Dean Baker
From politico.com
February 18th, 2011

politico.com — You have to give Gov. Walker and his wealthy patrons credit. Here we have a situation where Wall Street fat cats wrecked the economy - people like Richard Fuld, Robert Rubin, and Angelo Mozilo - and they've somehow managed to blame schoolteachers and the highway patrol.

Now we have a situation where the villains are sitting on their hundreds of millions of dollars, while tough guys like Gov. Walker are beating up school teachers to take away their $2,000 a month pension. And, the best part of the story is the Walkers are being heralded as statesmen for their efforts.

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Wisconsin: Face-Off Over Labor

By Dave Johnson
February 16, 2011

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has launched an all-out attack on public-employee unions, proposing to take away the right to collective bargaining. He has threatened to use the National Guard to put down any action by state workers in response. more »

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Pension Envy

By Dave Johnson
January 11, 2011

Since the 80s many employers have stopped offering health care, pensions and other benefits to their employees. Many are also cutting pay and hours, while increasing the workload. So more and more people are hurting. As more and more of us fall further and further behind, corporate/conservative propagandists use resentment to drive anti-union feelings. more »

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Understanding The Attacks On Public Employees

By Dave Johnson
January 7, 2011
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Conservatives Claim Unions Caused NY Snow Jam

By Dave Johnson
December 30, 2010

The right's propaganda machine begins with a simple narrative, repeats it endlessly, and then ties current events to the narrative to drive the point home. more »

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Ten Holiday Attacks On Public Employees

By Dave Johnson
December 28, 2010

If you haven't already noticed, there is a corporate/conservative campaign underway to convince the public that public employees are living high on the taxpayer's dime and should have their pay and pensions cut back. Even during the holidays this attack does not let up. more »

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Are Public Employee Unions Strangling Us?

By Dave Johnson
May 17, 2010

For Billionaire Mort Zuckerman it’s those damn unions that are the problem. For so many of the rest of us the problem is that we don't have a union.

Zuckerman has been with us on lots of things, like what he wrote about the stimulus, more »

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