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Jose Arango, New Jersey GOP Leader, Compares Female Lt. Gov. Candidate To His Secretary

July 31, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

A county Republican Party chairman in New Jersey had some harsh words this week for Hispanic labor leader Milly Silva, the newly tapped running mate of the state’s Democratic candidate for governor.

“Poor thing,” Jose Arango, the chairman, said of Silva, who is the executive vice president of labor union SEIU 1199. “It’s like picking my secretary. She’s a very nice person. The union likes her, but even in the union she’s vice president. She hasn’t been a committeewoman.”

Arango added, “It’s like the guy in CVS with no expertise who suddenly gets promoted to pharmacist. It’s like the guy saying, ‘I work at CVS, I can be the pharmacist.'”

Trayvon Martin Protest Leaders Revealed

July 18, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By Breaking News

Trayvon Martin Protest 7 SC Trayvon Martin Protest Leaders Revealed

Dream Defenders, the main group that has been agitating the protest movement surrounding the Trayvon Martin case, was spawned by activists employed by a who’s who of the race-hijacking radical left.

From the socialist-oriented SEIU union to ACORN to Occupy to a litany of George Soros-funded organizations, the deep connections behind Dream Defenders raises questions about the motivation of an organization that claims to be a grassroots effort working to oppose racism.

Dream Defenders has been leading Martin protests since the onset and has been credited with agitating for George Zimmerman’s arrest.

The group was behind the protests that blockaded the Sanford Police Department, demanding the police chief be fired for failing to bring charges against Zimmerman, who was acquitted of second-degree murder Saturday.

The small Community Relations Service at Eric Holder’s Justice Department facilitated a meeting between Dream Defenders and city officials that resulted in a Justice review of the police department.

Police cite 127 protesters rallying against proposed closure of Chicago schools

March 28, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Police arrested more than 100 protesters who staged a sit-in in front of Chicago’s city hall on Wednesday to demonstrate against the proposed closing of 54 public schools, MyFoxChicago.com reports.

The protest reportedly shut down some streets at the height of rush-hour traffic.

“This is the largest single closing in history of any city in this country,” says Tom Balanoff, president of Service Employees International Union, Local 1. “This is a massive city. It’s going to put our children in danger and it’s not necessary!”

About 127 of the protesters, including many Chicago Public Schools employees, were cited and released.

The large crowd reportedly cheered as each protester was arrested and led away to a holding area across the street.

“I feel elated for a good cause,” CPS paraprofessional Adeline Bracey said. “Someone needs to stand up to this administration and tell them we will not go quiet into the night.”

“My mother was a public school teacher, my kids go to public schools, I marched with them,” said a University of Illinois-Champaign professor. “I think [the] mayor is destroying the city.”

Patrick Calihan collected each citation. He is an attorney hired by the CTU and SEIU to represent the protesters’ in court.

“We notified the city and department of what we’d be doing and they were very, how can I say, understanding about what we have to do to exercise free speech,” Calihan said.

Each protester will have to pay a fine ranging from $45 to $100 depending on what the attorney works out with the court.

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Hyatt Reaches New Contract Agreements with UniteHere Local 274 in Philadelphia, Local 23 in Denver,

March 11, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

Filed under: Investing

Hyatt Reaches New Contract Agreements with UniteHere Local 274 in Philadelphia, Local 23 in Denver, and Local 30 in San Diego

Hyatt Calls on UniteHere Leaders in Other Cities to Follow the Examples of Their Colleagues

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Hyatt announced today that Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing and Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center associates overwhelmingly ratified agreements recently for new five-year contracts with UniteHere Local 274 and UniteHere Local 23, respectively, giving Hyatt associates the wage and benefit increases they deserve.

These contracts, effective through December 2017 in Philadelphia and February 2018 in Denver, come on the heels of an agreement to a five-year contract with UniteHere Local 30 at Hyatt Regency Mission Bay in San Diego. They follow other agreements made with UniteHere local leadership in Washington, D.C., New York, Monterey, Calif., and Toronto, as well as various unions, including the Teamsters, SEIU, the Longshoremen, and Workers United.

These new agreements reaffirm Hyatt’s commitment to offer competitive wages and benefits to associates and to maintain a positive workplace environment. With all of these contracts, Hyatt Regency Philadelphia, Hyatt Regency Denver and Hyatt Regency Mission Bay associates will receive wage increases and increased employer contributions to pension and healthcare.

These agreements demonstrate how negotiations can benefit associates when both sides focus on what is best for those individuals represented by UniteHere. It also marks a stark contrast to the demands being made by UniteHere leaders elsewhere. While Hyatt has shown its resolve in forging strong and productive relationships with many of the unions that represent its associates – including these UniteHere locals in Philadelphia and other cities – it is unfortunate that UniteHere leadership in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Waikiki do not follow the example of their colleagues.

Unlike the unreasonable UniteHere contract demands in these four cities, none of the three contracts in Philadelphia, Denver or San Diego were conditioned upon Hyatt giving up the rights of its associates to a democratic, secret ballot election for union representation in other cities, and none of the three contracts insisted on an unacceptable provision that would allow the union to strike during the contract term.

For more than three years, in an effort to pressure Hyatt to give up the democratic rights of some non-union associates to participate in a secret ballot vote on whether they want to be represented by a union, UniteHere leadership has denied …read more
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Republican Racial Catch 22

February 2, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By capblack

Author’s Note: This is my American History Month (Black Liberal History Month alternative) message to the GOP and the Black community:

Obama’s second victory sent the GOP into its usual clumsy rendition of what I call “Republican Racial Catch 22.”

Racial Catch 22 is the impasse White Republicans and Black citizens experience by unspoken mutual consent- despite pundit carping.

The GOP doesn’t have more Black members because that’s a choice neither group has made in large measure.

The top two reasons include irreconcilable differences in ideology, and, in bold print in many minds, racism.

I’d like to parse the racism claim as follows:

Can Republican Black membership swell when most of their mental interpretations of the acronym G-O-P spells K-K-K?

No amount of ham-handed claims of MLK being Republican (not unusual for his generation) or recitation of notable American Black appointees will easily dispel this programming.

Conversely, numerous White Republicans skeptically dismiss increasing Black membership given our image of a group of die-hard socialists like Van Jones.

Giving Obama and any Demo-crack dealer on the ballot almost 100% of our voter turnout doesn’t fill GOP numbers crunchers with hope.

This is the Republican Racial Catch 22: a party whose bitter irony is that its ancient role in going to war over Black enslavement is now viewed as the enemy of our modern advancement.

Until White Republicans and Black voters finally decide to talk and work together at the local level upward, debating the expanding of the GOP’s Black membership is just whistling Dixie.

As founder of American History Month, the alternative to Black (Liberal) History Month, my advice comes from its motto:

“Celebrate U.S.- Not Us Verses Them!”

White Republicans and Black folks haven’t had enough adults step up and force them to play in the same political sandbox, instead of rock-throwing from across America’s partisan playground.

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