Tag: AFSCME

The Wisconsin State Journal manages to bury the lede in the …lede. Somehow.

:pause:

That takes some doing.

There are times when you should really reread the first sentence of whatever you wrote: “Wisconsin’s three AFSCME councils are merging four years after the state rolled back public-sector union rights, prompting two out of three dues-paying members to drop out.”  See that bolded part? That’s your story. Not the fact that AFSCME is highly upset about this turn of events.  I think that none of us are surprised to hear that, yes? Continue reading The Wisconsin State Journal manages to bury the lede in the …lede. Somehow.

AFSCME thinks that the UNCF should think that $60K > $25M.

Oh, dear.

A powerful government workers’ union will end its support for the United Negro College Fund after the group accepted $25 million from the conservative powerhouse Koch brothers and the college fund’s president appeared at a Koch event.

In a letter made public Thursday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said it will no longer partner with or raise funds for the fund, known for its iconic motto, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

Oh, dear.  How will the UNCF ever survive without AFSCME’s support? Continue reading AFSCME thinks that the UNCF should think that $60K > $25M.

AFSCME in dues freefall after Wisconsin labor union reforms.

Maintain your composure, people.  No tears!  No tears:

The 2011 state law that all but ended collective bargaining for most public workers has hit Wisconsin’s second largest union hard.

The Capital Times reports the latest tax documents available show combined income of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees dropped 45% in 2012. That was the first full year of the law, called Act 10.

In 2011, the four councils that make up the state organization reported a combined income of $14.9 million. In 2012 that dropped to $8.3 million. Dues revenue dropped 40% to $7.1 million.

Turns out that if you give people an opportunity to vote with their pocketbooks, they take it.  I’d also note that a hefty percentage of those people opting out of forced union dues are undoubtedly doing it because Big Labor is a lapdog for the Democratic party establishment.  Gallup found in 2012 that 35% of union households backed Mitt Romney (34%, government union); while that may not make much of an electoral difference, I imagine that those folks are now happy not to be paying for Democratic attacks on their candidates. I suggest that the unions take a hint or two from this. Continue reading AFSCME in dues freefall after Wisconsin labor union reforms.

Wisconsin’s formerly-forced union members continue to organize with their feet.

Amazing what applying free market principles to labor organizing can do, huh?

According a Labor Department filing made last week, membership at Wisconsin’s American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 40 — one of AFSCME’s four branches in the state — has gone from the 31,730 it reported in 2011, to 29,777 in 2012, to just 20,488 now. That’s a drop of more than 11,000 — about a third — in just two years. The council represents city and county employees outside of Milwaukee County and child care workers across Wisconsin.

Labor Department filings also show that Wisconsin’s AFSCME Council 48, which represents city and county workers in Milwaukee County, went from 9,043 members in 2011, to 6,046 in 2012, to just 3,498 now.

Continue reading Wisconsin’s formerly-forced union members continue to organize with their feet.

54% of WI AFSCME employees voted with their feet in 2011. #wirecall

I am going to try to avoid too much hyperbole and sarcasm for this one; this is one time where the situation requires neither.  When Scott Walker and other Republicans instituted labor union reforms in 2009, one of the basic planks of such reforms – the one that was quietly and viciously fought, tooth and nail, by the unions – was removal of mandatory dues collection for public sector union employees.  In fact, from the union leaderships’ point of view this was THE reform that needed to be killed; if the Republicans had compromised on it then there probably wouldn’t have been a Wisconsin recall movement at all.  But Walker and the Republicans didn’t compromise… and what was the result?

DOOM.

Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-the state’s second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers-fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme’s figures. A spokesman for Afscme declined to comment.

Continue reading 54% of WI AFSCME employees voted with their feet in 2011. #wirecall

#rsrh Too foul-mouthed for RedState… (NSFW!)

…you can safely ignore the first seven minutes or so: it’s just the standard union solidarity BS. It’s at about 7:37 that the union-supported homophobia, crude sexual invitations, and patented tough-guy sneak-attack slaps start:

Gotta love the tolerant Northeast (Providence, RI, I believe).

Via Hot Air & Michelle Malkin.

Best part: that’s an AFSCME rally. Mr. Gay-hater is probably a government employee.

Moe Lane

PS:


Hey hey
ho ho
You’re on film now, don’t you know
Hey hey
ho ho
Union goons are kinda slow
Hey hey
ho ho
Ain’t the same rules any… mo

(pause)

OK, clearly I shouldn’t quit my day job.

Geez, AFSCME. Man up.

[Update]: Welcome, Instapundit readers: alas, Cantor’s press guy has already fallen on his sword for this one. A pity.

Language warning (which is why it’s not on RedState):

Rep. Cantor’s office sent this around in response to you doing as Obama bid when he didn’t get kowtowed to on his debt bill, and what’s your response? You started crying like a bully who got smacked back in the nose.

Pathetic. If you’re not ready to take a hit, don’t take a swing.

One of the meaner slams against the Left’s…

… agents that I’ve seen lately. Specifically, a fairly mean slam of both Americans United for Change & AFSCME.  You just need to look at it for a second to figure out why.

Ach, well: to use Robert Anton Wilson‘s line, the Democrats meant well. Or at least they meant something.

Crossposted at RedState.