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We just can not believe how low the Union Bosses will go. It is one thing to believe in your cause, but to disrupt and disrespect a special event like the Special Olympics !  More Americans are starting to learn  the truth about how so many of the Big Unions operate.

Frankly, we’ve seen it all from union bosses and their allies in Wisconsin over the last few months — or at least I thought we had until I watched this video.

You see, last week anti-Walker protestors — some dressed as zombies — interrupted Governor Walker’s speech at a Special Olympics event.

Please watch this video:  Please, sign the Open Letter to Governor Scott Walker and encourage him to stand strong against Big Labor.

We all understand why the Unions are dying out. Americans can not afford to pay 20% to 30% more to have a Union Company do the same job a Non-Union Company can do, with as much quality and usually on schedule. Many times the Union Companies fall behind schedule because of all the rules and regulations they have to follow.

Looks like the NLRB is up to it’s same old dirty tricks.

The NLRB has begun to sue states whose citizens voted to protect themselves from coercion and intimidation by adding secret ballot guarantees to their state constitutions, as well as attempting to deny a major corporation from operating a facility in a right-to-work state, which would create thousands of new jobs.

Why is the board attacking right-to-work states in a down economy? Perhaps it is due to the overwhelming and unmistakable connection between this administration and Big Labor bosses whose political spending has propelled not just President Obama to his position, but consequently, their allies into appointed positions of influence within government, starting with agencies such as the NLRB.

And it’s not as if union bosses are shying away from bragging about their access and influence. Just a few weeks ago, the president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Richard Trumka said, “I’m at the White House a couple times a week – two or three times a week … I have conversations every day with someone in the White House or in the administration. Every day. And that includes weekends, by the way.”

Read the entire article at : Workforce Fairness Institute osted on May 10, 2011 by Fred Wszolek

Dear Concerned American,

You have an historic opportunity to break the cycle of tax-and-spend, political corruption and out of control budgets caused by Big Labor’s compulsory union power.

But you must strike now to make Congressmen and Senators choose between standing with the 80% of Americans who oppose forced unionism and Big Labor’s multi-billion dollar political machine.
You see, President Barack Obama and Big Labor allies in the Senate are now feverishly scheming to bury the National Right to Work Act without a vote.

Please sign the petition supporting the National Right to Work Act
This is an opportunity you and I cannot afford to miss.

Join Ryan Paul  & the National Right to Work Committee in supporting this by signing the petition. If we work together we can help to cut out the wasteful spending and the Corruption of the Big Unions.

Republican members of the Wisconsin State Senate received the following email threat late Wednesday following the Senate vote to end some collective  bargaining rights and stop mandatory union membership by government workers. More concerning is the lack of coverage and outrage by the Main Street media and the White House. Members of the media were quick  to blame the tea party movement for the tragedy in Arizona that left Congresswoman Giffords injured and several people dead. Serious threats coming from “their side” seem to be less important.

Can you imagine if the Tea Party would do anything like this…. We have had enough of the Double Standard where is the MEDIA!!!!!

Please read the entire letter sent to the Wisconsin Senate From:Dustin Stockton, Chairman
Western Representation PAC

Below is the text of the email.
From: XXXX
Sent: Wed 3/9/2011 9:18 PM
To: Sen.Kapanke; Sen.Darling; Sen.Cowles; Sen.Ellis; Sen.Fitzgerald; Sen.Galloway; Sen.Grothman; Sen.Harsdorf; Sen.Hopper; Sen.Kedzie; Sen.Lasee; Sen.Lazich; Sen.Leibham; Sen.Moulton; Sen.Olsen
Subject: Atten: Death threat!!!! Bomb!!!!
Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.
WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we’ve had enough. We feel that you and the people that support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand for it any longer. So, this is how it’s going to happen: I as well as many others know where you and your family live, it’s a matter of public records.
We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn’t leave it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message to you since you are so “high” on Koch and have decided that you are now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent. This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won’t tell you all of them because that’s just no fun. Since we know that you are not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decided to make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it’s necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then We Will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you. Please understand that this does not include the heroic Rep. Senator that risked everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do. We feel that it’s worth our lives to do this, because we would be saving the lives of 300,000 people. Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!
We take threats such as this very seriously. To the protester’s credit, events in Wisconsin have been so far, largely peaceful. We can only pray that those responsible for these threats are arrested quickly and prosecuted. Lack of outrage by the Main Street media will only embolden extremists bent on using violence to get their way.

We as Americans have to expose this to our fellow Honest … Friends . please read this letter and pass it to your friends .. You know the MEDIA will not.

Thank You !!!! Fighting to keep Americans work choice free with NO Union Pressure !

Government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) negatively impact construction project costs, competition, timeliness, quality, safety and diversity, according to a report released in April. Maurice Baskin of Venable LLP looked at published sources, including media accounts and academic studies, which examined the actual progress of projects to disprove the claims that PLAs result in cost savings, help avoid delays and increase safety.

The report lists overwhelming evidence showing that PLA projects have experienced cost overruns. As an example, the Boston Central Artery Project, often referred to as the Big Dig, not only came in billions of dollars over budget, but also suffered from several major defects, countering the claims that PLAs help control costs and improve the quality of construction projects.

Please read the entire article: From Associated Builders and Contractors Inc.

Help us to get the word out on the unfair PLA’s and spread the truth.

Five states already have laws that prohibit collective bargaining in the public sector.In addition, several states have passed limitations on public sector bargaining rights in the past decade. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels repealed collective bargaining rights for state employees in 2005, as did Missouri’s governor in the same year and Kentucky’s governor in 2003, all three of which used did so by executive order. Even the federal government restricts collective bargaining to issues such as working conditions, while prohibiting it for wages and benefits.

Please read the article by: The Free Enterprise Nation

They also have a chart showing facts about the states that prohibit collective bargaining. Hopefully more states will get involved and start doing what is best for all Americans.

Good teachers (and there are many of them) could actually benefit if the collective bargaining practice was ended.  Collective bargaining has lead schools and government agencies to accept contracts treating every employee exactly the same. Teachers that perform well receive the same pay and benefits as the teachers who perform poorly.  The result is that there is no incentive to excel as an educator and it is incredibly difficult to remove bad teachers under collective bargaining agreements. That being said, we know there are thousands of teachers doing their best every day under the current educational system to give students a good education. This fight has never been about them.

We do not dispute that unions played a large part in bringing about improvements to work conditions that we all enjoy. For that we are thankful. Riding on the coattails of history, modern unions are now little more than a political arm of the Democratic Party. National teacher’s unions time and time again use the phrase; “If you love the children, you need to spend more on education”. At the same time, performance in our educational system has been declining for many decades. We can and must do better for our children.

Please read the entire atricle by: Dustin Stockton, Chairman
Western Representation PAC

Good teacher are very important to our countries growth and success and educating our children so they can grow and become strong bright Americans. Protecting bad teachers on the other hand is criminal !

Great job Governor Scott Walker !!  We need more strong honest men like you. We all need to cut back and get our country on the right track. We can not believe it is that difficult for so many of our “SMART” Leaders to understand you do NOT spend money if you do not have money.

The Senate’s 14 Democrats had fled to Illinois to prevent the chamber from attaining a quorum and passing the collective bargaining measures, which they have called an unnecessary attack on the rights of public employees. Republicans were able to move ahead by voting only on the nonfinancial aspects of Walker’s proposed bill, which requires fewer members for a quorum.

We need more Governors like Mr. Walker who will stand up against the big government powers and do what is right for all Americans !

Walker and GOP lawmakers are trying to close a $137 million budget shortfall with a plan that calls for curbs on public employee union bargaining rights and requires public workers, with the exception of police and firefighters, to cover more of their retirement plans and health care premiums.

We think it is time the union worker start paying their FAIR share of their retirements and healthcare like the rest of America !

Please read the rest of this article From Ed Lavandera, CNN

As Americans we Love this great country and will do what it takes to keep this great nation running. Pay attention Unions nothing is FREE with out giving..Remember the TAX payers money is supporting you! Do what is right for AMERICA.

STOP GOVERNMENT SPENDING.

We found this article which is full of facts about the history of the unions. How  they started and the groups that help to make up the back bone of the forces behind the unions

By now every American should be aware of what is going on in Wisconsin and the cuts that need to be made to help balance the states budget.

The bill, backed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker and many GOP lawmakers, would mostly end public unions’ rights to bargain collectively. The governor and his supporters say the legislation would help ease the state’s projected $3.6 billion budget deficit by, in part, increasing state worker contributions for pension and health benefits.

In 2010, the AFL-CIO spent $4.5 million in lobbying and the union was mentioned in 292 bills. The fifth-biggest receiver of AFL-CIO campaign contributions last year was Russ Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin, who got $11,500, the center reports. The same year, Feingold lost his U.S. Senate re-election campaign to Republican Ron Johnson.

To read the rest of the article by: Ashley Fantz of CNN          

Whether you support the union or not the history is quite interesting.We also thought the map of the United States and the union percentages in each state was good information.