Michael Tanner at Cato summarizes:
Congressional Democrats received another $68 million from unions in 2008, and $21 million more so far this year. And that doesn't count the value of "in kind" contributions like phone banks, poll volunteers and independent advertising.
Looks like the unions are getting their money's worth — with ...
What special interest groups got paid off in the Democrat-sponsored health care "reform" bills? They include unions, the AARP, the American Medical Association, the state of California, and the state of Louisiana. See:
Health Care BS's Health reform: Who got paid off? and Michelle Malkin's The Demcare bribe list.
From an op-ed in the Washington Post:
With union membership shrinking and wages strained, it might sound crazy to argue that labor should voluntarily give up a huge fringe benefit: tax-free health insurance provided by employers. But it should. In the long run, capping the amount of health insurance that employers ...
From the "Rocky Truth Patrol" (Rocky Mountain News):
Claim: Bob Schaffer let corporations cut corners, stick families with higher health costs.
Rocky Truth Patrol says: Just Wrong
This charge came in a mailer sent by the Service Employees International Union. It shows a caricature of a Monopoly-style CEO gleefully tossing cash in the ...
Last week's Rocky Mountain News reports:
Colorado labor and business leaders announced a joint effort to defeat three contentious anti-union measures on November's ballot, ending weeks of intense negotiations toward forging an unprecedented alliance.
In return for the business community's pledge to help fight a "right-to-work" measure and two other amendments targeting ...
So asks a headline of an article by Bob Mook in last week's Denver Business Journal. The proposed Amendment to the Colorado constitution would make it a crime for employers of twenty or more people not to buy them insurance. Here are some excerpts, but I recommend the whole article:
Mention Amendment No. 56 ...
Supporters of the union-sponsored Colorado Amendment 56 ("Employer Responsibility for Health Insurance") want to make it a crime for employers of 20 or more people not to offer them health insurance. When government forces employers to buy you insurance, employers respond by paying you less. This can put minorities and women out of ...
From Monday's Denver Post:
the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 plans to submit its signatures for a pair of initiatives Wednesday. The UFCW measures would mandate companies with 20 or more employees to provide health-care coverage... [Amendment 56]
To get a clear picture of how this mandate would play out, ...
Who would support a self-serving political agenda at the expense of your health, wealth, and job mobility? AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and Colorado executive director Mike Cerbo.
In a recent Denver Post commentary, they perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: "that the free market is not working," and that consequently, ...
An article from the Rocky Mountain News last week suggests why unions support employer-sponsored insurance:
Qwest Communications and its largest union start new contract talks Tuesday, negotiations especially critical given the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver. ... The Communications Workers of America represents roughly 21,000 employees, or about 55 percent ...
