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September 3, 2009 - 05:43 pm
NEWS FEED: Barefoot and Progressive

Mitch McConnell: the enlightened friend of enlightened management

By noreply@blogger.com (Media Czech)

So Mitch McConnell, corporate America's best friend and biggest paid client, says that union membership has declined because workers don't want to join unions and we have "very enlightened mangaement in this country now".

ORLY?

Take it away, Wonk Room:
For starters, an AFL-CIO survey found that there are 60 million American workers who say that they would join a union if they could. The reason that they can’t is because employers threaten to close plants in 57 percent of union organizing drives and threaten to cut wages and benefits in 47 percent, while ultimately firing pro-union workers 34 percent of the time.
And they couldn't have gotten away with doing so if it wasn't for their very "enlightened" friend in the Senate.

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April 7, 2009 - 08:31 pm
NEWS FEED: Barefoot and Progressive

Will Lt. Dan use non-union printers again this election?

By noreply@blogger.com (Media Czech)

With Lt. Dan Mongiardo soon to have a real challenger in the Democratic primary for the 2010 Senate race, he's going to need some union endorsements. Which makes me wonder if Mongiardo will once again use a non-union printer for this campaign, like he did back in 2004.

Yes, Lt. Dan spent $10,000 on Copy Express, a non-union Lexington printer, in 2004.

Perhaps the good folks at SEIU, Teamsters, AFL-CIO, AFSCME and Change to Win will ask Lt. Dan about his choice of company in the year to come? I'm sure they would be interested.

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Mon, 10/06/2008 - 15:18

Lunsford talks healthcare and economy at AFL-CIO roundtable

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

LOUISVILLE -- Meeting with six union members and local and national labor leaders, Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford, fielded questions about his positions on health care and the state of the economy today at a United Auto Workers hall in Louisville.

In responding, Lunsford sought to connect his opponent, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) with President Bush, by denouncing their economic policy as "wreckless."

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Wed, 10/01/2008 - 14:18

UMWA President Kentucky-bound for union discussion with Lunsford

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts is scheduled to be the latest national labor leader to visit Kentucky during the general election season. Roberts will appear in Louisville next Monday, meeting with union workers, U.S. Sen. candidate Bruce Lunsford (D-Louisville), and state AFL-CIO president Bill Londrigan.

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Tue, 09/16/2008 - 13:20

National union leader continues labor's push against McConnell in Louisville

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=1619|title=U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell|desc=|link=none|align=center|width=420|height=292]Efforts by the national and state incarnations of the AFL-CIO to mobilize its union membership in opposition to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) are taking another step forward tonight as national leadership from organized labor will rally activists at a Louisville event.

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Tue, 09/09/2008 - 16:04

Labor plans Wednesday rally in western Kentucky

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

Organized labor interests in Kentucky are continuing their push for their endorsed candidates this week with a planned rally tomorrow in western Kentucky at the Kentucky Dam Village park in Gilbertsville.

Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford is among the confirmed guests for the rally, according to a spokesperson from the AFL-CIO. He will be joined by several state and regional labor leaders, including Maurice Davidson of the United Auto Workers, Billy Thompson of the United Steel Workers, and Bill Londrigan, President of the Kentucky AFL-CIO.

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Mon, 09/08/2008 - 15:43

AFL-CIO dispatches 32,000 anti-McConnell mailers

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

Organized labor is stepping up its efforts in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race this week, as the AFL-CIO is firing off a mailer denouncing incumbent U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s record on economic issues.

In what is being identified as the start of the AFL-CIO’s final push in Kentucky, 32,000 mailers will go out to union households and AFL-CIO members today. Two different pieces are being dispatched as part of the effort.

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Wed, 08/27/2008 - 21:17

AFL-CIO aims to counteract anti-EFCA ads

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

DENVER – Kentucky labor unions are mobilizing to counteract the impact of an advertising campaign targeting Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford (D-Louisville) for supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, according to AFL-CIO Vice-President Ken Koch.

The ads attacking Lunsford claim the EFCA legislation would "take away your right to a private vote."

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Mon, 07/21/2008 - 17:06

AFL-CIO head Londrigan denounces 'card-check' ads

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

Kentucky AFL-CIO President Bill Londrigan rejected new radio ads launched against Democratic Senate nominee Bruce Lunsford as the product of "anti-labor" forces, in a brief interview with PolitickerKY.com today.

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Thu, 06/26/2008 - 20:36

‘Bush Legacy Tour’ hits Louisville with bullseye on McConnell

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=968|title=U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville)|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|align=right|width=240|height=175]LOUISVILLE - Dubbed by organizers a "museum on wheels to highlight the failures of the Bush administration," a bio-diesel powered bus touring communities with vulnerable incumbent members of Congress rolled into Louisville last night for a two-day stay. The visit culminated in a rally today near U.S. Sen.

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