Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

January’s Department of Labor report brought bad news for Big Labor and good news for America. Private sector unions lost approximately 843,000 members last year and now make up just 7.2% of America’s work force.

This is a sharp drop from the early 1950’s level of 36% but what is more important is that today almost the same number (37.4%) of public sector workers are unionized. The union message is failing and workers with a choice don’t want unionization. Only government workers who have no choice are unionized in large numbers. This offers the possibility our nation can be saved from the Marxists strangling the life out of our economy.
The job of private sector unions is squeezing every last benefit they can from the companies who employ their members. This might sound fair and admirable, but in actual practice it has led to disastrous results for dozens of companies and several whole industries at the expense of millions of jobs.

In our current “bizzaro” world of Barack Obama’s Administration, we have an “Animal Farm” like condition where the Auto Workers’ Unions own part of the companies they “work” for. Like that “Hope and Change” gibberish this hasn’t worked out so well. General Motors and Chrysler which were once on top of Fortune’s 500 List are bankrupt and suffering withdrawal pains from the Obama/Unions fraudulent “Cash for Clunkers” swindle.

An either or situation

Unions will NEVER relax union rules and union rules are steadily killing private companies. Unions are a cancer that must be removed from our economy by the next Congress in order for us to have a chance to survive the damage this bunch from Chicago has done. It’s down to a clear choice: unions or America’s economy. Elect conservatives who will know which to choose.

Where stimulus money went

In spite of empirical evidence that governments consume wealth and never produce any, hundreds of billions of dollars of the so called “Stimulus” package we HAD to have went to governments to help them keep paying their unionized workers.

Those 7 million plus lost jobs you’ve read about have come out of private company payrolls. In contrast governments have increased their collective workforce by 10,000 new hires a month, many in the federal government.

According to Michael Barone, “.. the percentage of federal employees earning over $100,000 has jumped to 19 percent during the recession.”

His comments also included pointing out that non-union manufacturing employment has climbed since 1973 by 2 million workers and during the same period union manufacturing employment has fallen by the same 2 million.

Federal laws protect workers from unsafe workplaces, discrimination of all kinds and payroll and pension failures during corporate bankruptcies, so the time is right to finish off the parasitical unions before they kill our economy. The king really has no new suit of clothes and we’ve got to face it.

What have you done to be worthy of your American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and what do you plan to do tomorrow?

Source: http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2010/02/08/public-sector_unions_bleed_taxpayers_to_help_dems?page=full&comments=true

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at -17

This day in history February 14

1929: Al Capone, another gangster from Chicago, ordered the murder of rival gangsters in a brutal mass assassination known ever since as the St. Valentine’s Day massacre.

Have you read this week’s “Betcha didn’t know this..” page? It’s loaded with interesting little “bite size” items you’re bound to enjoy.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Big Labor wants what they bought and paid for.

America’s unions gave the Democrats 52 million dollars in their effort to buy the Congress and White House. True to their “We come first; to hell with the rest of you…” attitude now they want their payback.

Paying Big Labor back is high on the list of the Democrat’s “to do list” so we will soon see passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Commonly known as the “card check” system of forcing non-unionized private businesses into union membership, it would strong arm virtually all American workers into union membership.

American workers don’t want to unionize. Currently less than 10% of privately employed workers are unionized. When last surveyed, just 13% of non-union workers were “ definitely in” should they be offered a vote on unionizing their job.

To stop its slide into non-existence, Big Labor and the Democrats have developed this plan to intimidate non-union workers into joining them and paying them and the Democrats for the “privilege” of their continued employment. They want the Democrats to forcibly do what they can not do in a free labor market.

EFCA will force “open and free” opportunities for non-union workers to say “Yes” or “No” to unionization under the watchful and intimidating eyes of union thugs.

With EFCA in place Big Labor will go after Wal-Mart. None of Wal-Mart’s 7000 stores is unionized. Its 2 million workers don’t pay union “dues.”

Wal-Mart makes life better, if it goes union we all lose, but that means nothing to unions.

Wal-Mart’s marketing strategies have saved Americans 263 billion, cutting food prices 9.1% and general consumer prices 4.2% since 1985. Since 2006 they have provided the poor and elderly $4.00 prescriptions.

All of these savings will continue under unionization, but they will be diverted to union bosses and Democrats when EFCA comes in.

The obvious purpose of EFCA is to increase union membership, but the real purpose is to extort money from workers and split it with the Democrats. We have laws to stop this, but of course Democrats don’t follow laws they don’t like so our only option is to fight EFCA and kill it now.