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- Union Thugs Indicted For Burning Down Quaker Church Because They Were Employing Non-union Workers
From the Free Beacon: The federal government on Tuesday indicted multiple union members for burning down a Quaker church in 2012. Ten members of a Philadelphia ironworkers union face charges of arson and racketeering in connection with a fire against...
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Absolutely enraging. Maybe Obama ought to send a drone over the ACLU offices as well. From Salon: A major legal challenge to one of the Obama administration's most radical assertions of executive power began this morning in a federal courthouse in...
- Storm Track Appeasement: Us Detention Has Its Pluses
Weasel Zippers did an accurate congruence of the behavior of the American Criminal Liberties Union – the ACLU. On the one hand, the ACLU is all in a tizzy over the U.S. military holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants"...
- Storm Track Appeasement: Aclu Joins The Aluminum Foil Hat Brigade
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- From Skokie To Cair...the End Of The Aclu
By way of Big Pharoah In 1978 a jewish ACLU lawyer defending offensive speech won the right for the nazis to exercise free speech and march in Skokie IL, a city in which 1 of 6 inhabitants was either a holocaust survivor or a an immediate family member...
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Pro-Union ACLU Accuses Its Own Unionized Workers of “Extortion”
Did you know that the clerical and other support staff for the American Civil Liberties Union is, well, unionized? Well, they are and that is causing ACLU executive director Anthony Romero some serious heartburn.
Romero told the Village Voice in a July 25 interview that the workers’ union, United Auto Workers Local 2110, was engaging in a “subtle form of extortion” by criticizing the ACLU to the press.
“[The union] is using the press to embarrass us and back us into a corner to make concessions that are not in keeping with the market and not in keeping with other employers,” Romero said. He was responding to a Village Voice piece the previous day titled: “The ACLU Is Going After Its Own Union Workers’ Contracts.”
This situation is more than a little ironic, given that the ACLU is a well-known – perhaps the best-known — advocate of free speech and a free press. Somewhat less well-known is that it also an advocate of collective bargaining rights.
In the July 24 piece, the Voice reported that the civil rights group was asking for “unprecedented” givebacks from its legal assistants, receptionists, bookkeepers, accounting assistants and mail clerks.
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- Union Thugs Indicted For Burning Down Quaker Church Because They Were Employing Non-union Workers
From the Free Beacon: The federal government on Tuesday indicted multiple union members for burning down a Quaker church in 2012. Ten members of a Philadelphia ironworkers union face charges of arson and racketeering in connection with a fire against...
- Aclu, Ccr Seek To Have Obama Enjoined From Killing Awlaki Without Due Process
Absolutely enraging. Maybe Obama ought to send a drone over the ACLU offices as well. From Salon: A major legal challenge to one of the Obama administration's most radical assertions of executive power began this morning in a federal courthouse in...
- Storm Track Appeasement: Us Detention Has Its Pluses
Weasel Zippers did an accurate congruence of the behavior of the American Criminal Liberties Union – the ACLU. On the one hand, the ACLU is all in a tizzy over the U.S. military holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants"...
- Storm Track Appeasement: Aclu Joins The Aluminum Foil Hat Brigade
From The Gathering Storm The American Criminal Liberties Union is looking into the use of brain scans by the US on terrorists.The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking information about alleged brain-scanning usage on suspected terrorists. The ACLU...
- From Skokie To Cair...the End Of The Aclu
By way of Big Pharoah In 1978 a jewish ACLU lawyer defending offensive speech won the right for the nazis to exercise free speech and march in Skokie IL, a city in which 1 of 6 inhabitants was either a holocaust survivor or a an immediate family member...