If you’re going to call for a revolution, it helps to make sure that everyone’s on board with it, right? Apparently, that didn’t occur to the #OccupyOakland protesters who called for a general strike, but didn’t realize that the majority of people would rather work to pay their bills, send their kids to school and, you know, live their everyday lives. Read the rest here:  #OccupyOakland calls... 

Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, one of the half dozen or so Republicans running in the primary to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison next year, has a problem on his hands. While he has been positioning himself as a conservative, which is the only viable case to make in a Texas statewide GOP primary, the knock on him from the grassroots has been that he did not govern as mayor as a conservative.... 

The Democratic Party is officially encouraging supporters to go to Speaker John Boehner’s house and dump garbage on his lawn in order to intimidate him into rubber-stamping President Obama’s destructive spending spree. Such protests can easily turn violent, especially with the tense, hyper-partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill right now. Is it a coincidence that not long after longtime ACORN... 

Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have discovered that a little-known provision in the national health care law has allowed the federal government to pay nearly $2 billion to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations to subsidize health coverage costs for early retirees.  At the current rate of payment, the $5 billion appropriated for the program could... 

The heated rhetoric and aggressive attitude of some Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin has surprised many, even revolutionaries, says a leader of the Communist Party USA. CPUSA Vice Chairman Scott Marshall says he’s never seen such radicalization of legislators. Marshall indicates it’s imperative that the Communist Party USA seize upon the unrest.  Read More →

From the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center Website For the thousands of workers who helped lead Egypt’s February 2011 revolution, a new day has dawned. On March 12, 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) hailed the Egyptian Minister of Manpower and Migration’s historic recognition of workers’ right to form independent trade unions, free from government interference, that represent... 

The Blaze has obtained an exclusive letter sent from Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding shocking video uncovered by The Blaze on Tuesday. In the letter, Chaffetz references video, posted yesterday on this site, showing a one-time SEIU official, Stephen Lerner, outlining a plan to collapse the American economy — including crashing the stock market — so that unions... 

SEIU’s Agenda is My Agenda YouTube – Barack Obama on the Employee Free Choice Act. Obama and Homecare Worker – Walk a Day in My Shoes  Read More →

After almost a month of intense protests failed to intimidate elected Republican officials into backing down, some union bosses and socialist agitators are ramping up calls for an illegal general strike in Wisconsin to battle a bill limiting the collective bargaining privileges of government employees. Numerous media reports said protesters swarming the Capitol repeatedly chanted the phrase “general... 

In North Carolina, collective bargaining in the public sector has been banned by the state for over 50 years.  A statute implemented in 1959 declared collective bargaining by state and local government employees “to be against the public policy of the State, illegal, unlawful, void and of no effect.” To unionists, it seemed like a drastic and unfair law, but for years it has protected the...