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Senate Democrats Demand Amnesty in Return for Tightening Asylum Laws and Border Security
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, Labor & Unions, National Security, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Federation for American Immigration Reform With a foreign aid package scheduled to hit the Senate floor as early as this week, eleven Senate Democrats issued a joint statement to demand that any agreement to tighten U.S. asylum laws and improve border security also include an amnesty for illegal aliens. The Democrats who signed the statement included Sen. Dick […]
‘A Hit Job On Michigan And On Detroit’: Trump Calls Biden EV Push A ‘Government Assassination’ Of Auto Jobs
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Former President Donald Trump ripped President Joe Biden’s push for electric vehicles, calling it a “hit job” on Detroit and the auto industry. Trump spoke in Clinton Township, Michigan, to a crowd of union workers instead of attending a debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, that aired on Fox Business Network […]
12 TWEETS ON BIDEN’S BORDER BUST: The plan to replace America’s workers with ‘cheap labor’ foreign illegal aliens
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Immigration, Labor & Unions, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Here are the top Tweets on the border invasion that is the keystone of the Democrat Party’s plan to replace America’s workers, voters and the middle class with “cheap labor” foreign illegal aliens. Biden’s Border Bust I mean – he just said it. Replace American workers with cheap foreign labor. It’s […]
UAW Announces Massive Expansion Of Strike Against Major Automakers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The United Auto Workers (UAW) announced on Friday that more workers will go on strike as the union and automakers continue to be unable to reach a deal. The union announced that 38 new plants across the U.S. will join the partial strike at noon against the Big Three automakers as […]
Fathers and Sons
/in DrRichSwier.com, Labor & Unions, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing John Grondelski: This year is the centennial of Calvin Coolidge’s inauguration and recalls not only a different age for fathers and sons, but much more. The day that Calvin Coolidge succeeded Warren G. Harding as president his son, Calvin Jr., started work on a tobacco farm. Coolidge writes, “When one of his […]
Job Board Hosting Only ‘Non-Woke Employers’ Gains Popularity
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Thanks to this viral video….hiring based on merit not left-wing discriminatory polices. Watch: Job board hosting only ‘non-woke employers’ gains popularity with viral video By: Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, June 09, 2023: A job board established after the pandemic is offering job hunters and employers a new niche market. RedBalloon promises […]
The GOP Is Clueless To The Dems’ Sinister Immigration Agenda — And It Has Nothing To Do With Elections
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, Labor & Unions, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The GOP has been very good at diagnosing the problems we will face from the illegal migrant invasion following the end of Title 42. Americans will pay more taxes while seeing cartel activity, gang violence, and other crime skyrocket. Housing and healthcare will become scarcer and more expensive, and the labor market will […]
Federal Employees Say Forcing Them Back Into The Office Endangers The Planet
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Labor & Unions, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report This is where your hard earned taxpayer dollars go – to these sloths. They should all be fired. Clearly, they are not needed. The U.S. government is the nation’s largest employer. It’s obscene. Federal Employees Say Forcing Them Back Into The Office Endangers The Planet The largest union of federal employees […]
Biden Claimed He Created 1 Million Jobs. Actual Number, 10,500
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch Come on, man. What’s a little rounding error between friends? What’s a little rounding error between a corrupt hack and the country he’s running into the ground? “In the second quarter of this year, we created more jobs than in any quarter under any of my predecessors in the nearly 40 years before the […]
Soros-Funded Nonprofit Gets $12 Mil from U.S. to Empower Workers in Latin America
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Judicial Watch The Biden administration is giving a nonprofit partially funded by leftwing billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) $12 million to strengthen labor rights and empower workers in three Latin American countries. The U.S. taxpayer dollars will go to the Solidarity Center, a Washington D.C.-based group closely allied with OSF as well as the country’s […]
Court Orders New York City To Reinstate Unvaccinated Employees, Give Backpay
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Labor & Unions, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The New York State Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that New York City cannot fire employees for not getting vaccinated against COVID-19, dealing a blow to Democratic Mayor Eric Adams’ pandemic policy. The court ordered the city to reinstate all fired employees and grant them backpay, citing the fact that being vaccinated against COVID-19 […]
Major Rail Union Rejects Biden-Backed Deal, Reigniting Strike Fears
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller One of the largest rail unions in the country rejected a Biden administration-brokered deal with railways Monday over concerns regarding working conditions, forcing both sides back to the bargaining table and raising the specter of a potentially devestating strike next month. The vote drew record turnout, with nearly 12,000 members of […]
New GOP bills attack the raging border crisis while Biden sits on his hands
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, Labor & Unions, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Federation for American Immigration Reform While President Joe Biden continues to ignore and even encourage the raging crisis on the southern border, some principled lawmakers in Washington continue to valiantly fight what has been an uphill battle. Four Republicans from four different states have recently introduced legislation to attack different aspects of the crisis. […]
WARNING: Collapse of Energy, Food & Transportation Systems Prompt Calls for Government Nationalization of Industries
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano Echoes 1930s push for Great Reset style reforms! The modus operandi of the Great Reset (a.k.a. Build Back Better) is to intentionally collapse the current system with policies designed to create a crisis, havoc, and shortages. … Once the inevitable societal chaos ensues, a huge coordinated push to promote nationalization or government […]
McDonald’s CEO Warns Chicago Mayor Lightfoot that Soaring Crime is Leaving its Corporate Staff Too Terrified to Return to HQ
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Gun Rights, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Mayor Lori Lightfoot has allowed criminals to take over the once great city of Chicago. As such, we are now seeing a corporate exodus out of the Windy City. How long before McDonald’s follows Boeing, Citadel, the Chicago Bears and others out of Chicago? Not very long at this rate. The city […]
America Bracing For Chaos And Pain As Tens of Thousands Railroad, Port and Hospital Workers Set to Strike
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Everything the Democrat regime touches turns to shit. What normal human being would vote for this horror? The midterms should be a complete rout. By Alex Hammer For Dailymail.Com, 13 September 2022 America is bracing for chaos as tens of thousands of railway, port, and hospital workers look set to strike over the […]
Taxpayer Lawsuit Filed over Racially Discriminatory Minneapolis Teachers’ Contract
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Judicial Watch (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Minneapolis taxpayer over a teachers’ contract that provides discriminatory job protections to certain racial minorities. The lawsuit was filed against the superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools, the Minneapolis Public Schools, and the Minneapolis Board of Education […]
Teachers Unions Politicized U.S. Schools, Not Parents
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Union leaders claim that “extremists” politicized US schools. This is blatant revisionism. When voters were asked by Pew Research, prior to the 2020 election, what issues were most important to them, education wasn’t even among the top dozen. But things have changed dramatically since then. Outlets ranging from The Washington Post, to ABC […]
“It’s In-Your-Face Capitalism.” Low-Paid ‘Virtual Cashiers’ Provoke Outrage among Labor Activists
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Labor & Unions, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Virtual cashiers may be coming to a restaurant near you. A new start-up called Percy is based on a simple yet revolutionary idea: virtual cashiers. Essentially, a video calling device is set up at the cash register of your local restaurant or shop. When you want to buy something, you […]
Social Justice Unionism Means Pro-Abortion Big Labor
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Capital Research Center Last week, Politico reported on a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and return the question of abortion regulation to the states, ending the Court’s invention of a constitutional right to abortion. The draft opinion was greeted with predictable outrage from left-progressives, including those in organized labor. Statements […]
Why You Shouldn’t Celebrate the TSA for Employing 47,000 Workers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Labor & Unions, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The lump of labor hypothesis—that there are only so many jobs “out there”—is a fallacy. I recently took an airplane trip, departing from a medium-sized city. There must have been, oh, at least 100 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees who were officiating at the boarding process: checking our luggage, […]
Private-Sector Union Membership Hit Record Low in 2021, Labor Department Data Show
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Private-sector union membership fell to 6.1 percent in 2021, the lowest level since the federal government started tracking this data. President Biden repeatedly has promised to be “the most pro-union president in American history.” But there’s one key group of people standing in his way: The tens of millions of workers […]
Labor Unions [Quietly] Admit the Jones Act Is Contributing to America’s Supply Chain Problems
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The AFL-CIO appears to recognize that the Jones Act is part of the US supply chain problem. As reported by Politico earlier this week, the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trade Department has authored a new statement on US maritime policy that features predictable enthusiasm for protectionist policies such as the Jones Act and cargo preference laws. More interesting, however, is […]
Hypnotised by race and gender, politicians have forgotten the working man
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities We need a labour market which supports families, argues Oren Cass, in a brilliant policy book. Over the last two years, the overwhelming focus on the pandemic has obscured many other issues. It is easy to overlook the growing dissatisfaction with the economic status quo which existed prior to […]
7 Reasons to Say Goodbye to Teachers Unions
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) I stand with teachers—not unions. Every year, my school district hosts a beginning of the year meeting with every employee in the district. Amidst all the pomp are 15 minutes during which my school district provides a platform for the head of the local teachers union. He doesn’t say […]
Over Two Dozen FDNY Firehouses Shut Down Over Vax Mandate Staff Shortages
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Pamela Geller The Democrats are killing us. Literally. Over two dozen FDNY firehouses shut down over vax mandate staff shortage By: New York Post, October 31, 2021: The FDNY shuttered 26 fire companies citywide on Saturday due to staff shortages caused by the COVID-19 vaccination mandate, according to furious elected officials, who ripped the […]
WATCH: Unions Mostly to Blame for Supply Chain Shortages But Biden Thanks Them
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Royal A. Brown III The real cause of supply chain shortages are the Unions which provide Stevedores to unload ships and Warehouse Workers at our major ports. Their contract exempts them from working on weekends and they already make well over $100,000 a year but have no fear – Beijing Joe Biden will influence […]
PODCAST: Maybe Workers Just Aren’t That Into You, Unions!
/in Commentary, Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, Politics /by Conservative Commandos Radio ShowGUESTS AND TOPICS: SEAN HIGGINS Sean Higgins is a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute specializing in labor and employment issues. As journalist, he covered the intersection of politics and economics for two decades, having been senior writer for the Washington, Washington correspondent for Investor’s Business Daily and a contributor to publications like Reason […]
PODCAST: Unions and Democrats Attack the Right to Work
/in Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Labor & Unions, News, Politics /by Conservative Commandos Radio ShowGUESTS AND TOPICS: HAS VON SPAKOVSKY Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues – including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform — as a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. His […]
Judge Socks It To The Left
/in Courts & Law, Culture Wars, DrRichSwier.com, Immigration, Labor & Unions, National Security, Politics /by Florida Family AssociationU.S. District Judge Drew E. Tipton grants order to restrain Biden administration from implementing its “Immediate 100-Day Pause on Removals” of illegal criminal aliens. Judge Tipton wrote: “This preliminary injunction shall remain in effect pending a final resolution of the merits of this case or until a further Order from this Court, the United States […]