Tag Archives: collective bargaining

My pilot light is out

By Mark | December 15, 2011

Every once in a while, I get the urge to stop blogging. I sat and stared at the screen last night for a few hours, and just couldn’t seem to muster the energy or enthusiasm for it. I feel like blaming the baby, as he’s been keeping us up for the past two weeks, but […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arlo, charter schools, Christmas, Christmas gifts, Clementine, comics, defunding public schools, due process, home birth, indefinite military detention, Linette, Mark, Mark Maynard's heart, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, NDAA, public education, public employee unions, temporary depression, things that make Mark happy, threats to stop blogging, union busting | 37 Comments

So, what’s the Washtenaw Community Action Team?

By Mark | October 17, 2011

I’d heard mention of the Washtenaw Community Action Team over the past several months or so, but I never really took the time to figure out how they fit into the local ecosystem of left-leaning political organizations, or what their objectives were. Fortunately, however, I had the occasion this past weekend to exchange a few […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Corporate Crime, History, Michigan, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 40 hour work week, AAUP, Adam Warner, AFL-CIO, America Votes Labor Unity Fund, astroturf, banks, bridges, child labor, civil disobedience, commencement, corporatocracy, Flint, Graduate Employees Organization, Great Flint Sit Down Strike, Gregg Barak, Howard Bunsis, Ian Robinson, infrastructure, Inside Job, Jane Slaughter, Koch brothers, labor, labor history, Martin Luther King, Maureen Taylor, Mehmet Yaya, Occupy Ann Arbor, Occupy Detroit, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, protests, Public Act 4, Right to Teach, right-to-work, Solidarity Forever, Stadium Bridge, Stand Against Snyder, Tom Weisskopf, UM Graduate Research Assistants, UMHS nurses, unions, Wall Street, Washtenaw Community Action Team, WCAT, We Are One, We Are The People, Wisconsin, With Babies and Banners: A Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade | 10 Comments

Ohio Republicans deceive voters with fraudulent ad in effort to end collective bargaining

By Mark | October 12, 2011

Apparently, in Ohio, like in Wisconsin, there’s been a concentrated effort to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights. The legislation that would do this in Ohio, called Senate Bill 5, has already passed the Republican legislature, and now there’s a state-wide grassroots effort to repeal it via voter referendum. If the repeal effort, […]

Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ballsy mother fuckers, Building a Better Ohio, Cincinnati, deceptive editing, deceptive video manipulation, ethics violations, fire fighters, labor, Marlene Quinn, No on Issue 2, Ohio, political ads, public employee unions, Republican lies, Senate Bill 5, unions, We Are Ohio | 49 Comments

And so it begins… Benton Harbor’s EFM becomes first to invoke new powers, dissolve elected government

By Mark | April 16, 2011

Invoking the powers recently bestowed upon Michigan’s emergency financial managers by the Republican legislature, Joseph L. Harris, the Granholm-appointed emergency financial manager for Benton Harbor, yesterday dissolved all elected bodies within that city. (His official order can be seen below.) This, I believe, is the first instance of an emergency financial manager exercising the bold, […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged AFL-CIO, Benton Harbor, corporate fascism, Detroit Public Schools, Ecorse, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, fascism, financial martial law, Jennifer Granholm, Joseph Harris, Joseph L. Harris, Mark Gaffney, Pontiac, Rick Snyder, threats to Democracy, union busting | 27 Comments

Finally coming out and stating the obvious, Scott Walker admits that his assault against collective bargaining had nothing to do with Wisconsin’s budget deficit

By Mark | April 14, 2011

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker found himself in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today, admitting under oath that his going after the collective bargaining rights of state employees had absolutely nothing to do with saving his state money. Here’s video of the Governor being questioned by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. From the […]