Subject: Labor Unions

• Cheeseburgers and Patsies in the White House

  If it wasn't for the cheeseburgers, I might have found this morning's resignation of White House Chief of Staff Andy Card touching. Certainly the reporters– and I use that word loosely– on the various cable news stations did, but then they were just following the White House's lead and ignoring the cheeseburgers. The mood the White House was going for was Hallmark-card maudlin, as the Associated Press' description of event makes clear: Gripping the podium, Card said in his farewell:

  March 28, 2006

• Nuts Come Out for Nguyen, Take Daucher Along for Ride

  Rebecca Schoenkopf reporting from . . . ORANGE, Teamsters Local Something or Other--We've been told state senate staffers are here, giving up vacation time to walk for Lou Correa, Democrat for OC's 34th state Senate District. People here are sitting in chairs, too (union thing?), looking at the TeeVee because the TeeVee, at least, has good news from the national front: here at home, Lou's losing big-time to Republican Lynne Daucher. Some people predicted Lou would take the seat. But then, all t

  November 7, 2006

• Dornan in '08

  I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, but judging by this report from Drew Cline, editorial page editor of New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader, the race for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination could prove to be very, very entertaining. Cline writes on the Union Leader blog: I just got off the phone with former congressman and talk show Bob Dornan, who is considering. . . a run for President. "I can't stand the thought of my party having as its three front-runners three open adulterers, N

  November 16, 2006

• Beach Break: Port strike on the horizon?

  June 22, 2007

• Ex-Sheriff's Dept. Officials Create Bold, New Firm!

  Over at the Orange County Register, ace reporter Peggy Lowe writes tonight on Orange County Sheriff's Department blog news that two of indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona's Yes Folks (YF) quit today: assistant sheriffs Jo Ann Galisky and Steve Bishop. Somehow the third and final major YFer embarrassment, Acting Sheriff Jack Anderson, remains . . . sitting atop the massive police agency, repeatedly uttering four words: "I am the sheriff' and waiting, nervously, for guidance from Carona/GOP operativ

  February 29, 2008

• Irvine Company Janitors Prepare to Strike--Good Luck With That

  A couple of days ago, members of the Service Employees International Union (SEUI) Local 1877 who clean offices at Fashion Island and the Irvine Spectrum Center voted overwhelmingly to strike against the two facilities' owner, the mighty Irvine Company. The Orange County Labor Federation is on board with the strike, as is Zeke Hernandez, director of the main Orange County chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens. On Sunday, Hernandez wrote a letter to Irvine Company overlord Donald

  May 6, 2008

• Yo Quiero Contract

  April 13, 2000

• More Freebies for the Rich

  July 5, 2001

• Exodus

  September 6, 2001

• Democrats Proudly Wear the Union Label

  Above the “Teamsters Local 952 Orange County and Vicinity” logo on the wall behind the speaker’s podium at the Orange union hall on Marks Way is the image of two horse heads. Instead of suggesting that represents the calling card of some syndicates that have been known to associate with labor, let us instead point out that those should have been donkey heads on Friday as Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) and the local labor movement joined forces to shore up the “down slate” cand

  October 17, 2008

• Massacre at Agua Caliente

  April 15, 2004

• Oops, Nuns Caught Violating National Labor Law Again

  *Update: Illegal deposition excerpts after the jump...Sister Katherine Gray, head of the one of the most socially active and downright grassroots religious orders in the world, really wants the media, her workers and everyone she knows to believe that she and the managers at the multi-million dollar hospital ministry she runs aren't trying to stop their workers from unionizing. The only problem is that those same managers have a bad habit of hiring anti-union firms as consultants and getting cau

  January 28, 2009

• Sisterly Concern

  UFW legend Dolores Huerta wonders why her old friends who run the St. Joseph's hospitals have turned on their own workers

  December 20, 2007

• Sister Knows Best

  If the nuns in charge of the St. Joseph Health System are so pro-labor,why are some of their employees determined to unionize?

  November 29, 2007

• Letters

  June 5, 2003

• A Union-Busting Habit

  The sisters who run St. Joseph Health System are often pro-labor—but apparently not at their hospitals

  August 16, 2007

• Goofy Oversight

  October 3, 2002

• William Millionaire Plaschke

  September 12, 2002

• Nursing A Grudge

  May 22, 2003

• Commie Girl

  Raise Less Corn, More Hell: We got your class warfare swingin

  September 28, 2006

• Grocery Sacked

  March 11, 2004

• This Little Piggy Whores for Markets

  February 5, 2004

• Moving On Up

  February 6, 2003

• Critical Mass

  December 5, 2002

• Is There Something Wrong With These People?

  September 19, 2002

• Eating Responsibly

  A guide to union dining in OC

  August 29, 2002

• Here & Now

  August 1, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 2, 2002

• Involuntary Separation

  February 7, 2002

• Bad Company

  January 24, 2002

• Blood Simple

  July 26, 2001

• No News Is News

  March 15, 2001

• A Temendous Day in History

  January 25, 2001

• Freebies for the Rich

  November 30, 2000

• Cox Stocks Take Big Knocks

  October 19, 2000

• Cleaning House

  September 21, 2000

• Union Maid

  May 25, 2000

• Labors New Face

  March 30, 2000

• Labors Big Day

  January 27, 2000

• Dennis the Menace to Society

  September 9, 1999

• Shopping Mauled

  January 28, 1999

• How to Kill a Factory

  September 3, 1998

• Susan Kang Schroeder Fires Back At Angry OC Deputies

  Jack, Morgan, Susan & Mike"Ahhhh . . . Wayne is a friend who is just doing his job as a passionate union leader. I know at the end of the day, we have the same goal--to make Orange County law enforcement better. Cases such as the Chamberlain jail beating murder, OCSD Deputy Gerald Stenger child molestation case and this [excessive force] case give us an opportunity to dialogue and make necessary changes. We both want to be able to assure the public that when law enforcement testify under oat

  April 19, 2009

• Tim Carpenter Returns Home to Push Single-Payer Healthcare

  Progressive Democrats of AmericaTim Carpenter makes his single-payer pitch.Tim Carpenter had been the longtime face of progressive politics in Orange County before leaving in 2002 to become a top organizer for Dennis Kucinich's presidential bid followed by his current post: national director of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), which is based in Carpenter's new home state of Massachusetts. The PDA's "Health Care NOT Warfare" campaign brought him back home to Orange County in October, w

  April 20, 2009

• Healthcare Workers to Protest Job Cuts at Kaiser Orange County

  Coming to Anaheim Thursday.​Kaiser Permanente employees will picket outside the Kaiser Orange County facility Thursday to protest the health behemoth's plans to slash 1,350 jobs in coming months.Kaiser workers in purple shirts are scheduled to chant, carry signs and speak with patients about the effects of job cuts on patient care from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 411 North Lakeview Ave., Anaheim. The picketing is part of five weeks of events held by SEIU-UHW members, who have scheduled simultan

  September 30, 2009

• Foes of Proposed Orange County Fair Sale Launch Website

  Photo by Jennie WarrenAre certain fair board elements taking Orange Countians and state taxpayers for a ride?Some anonymous Orange County Fair employees have created a website that channels their displeasure with the proposed sale of the state-owned fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.OCUnfair.com takes particular aim at: Steve Beazley, the Orange County Fair president and CEO; David Ellis, a Newport Coast resident who serves on the governor-appointed Orange County Fair Board of Directors; and Richard "Di

  September 21, 2009

• Workers Rally to Save Jobs of Live Emergency Dispatchers

  ​Before this evening's Santa Ana City Council meeting, union workers will stage a rally in front of City Hall to draw attention to layoffs they claim will lead to 9-1-1 emergency calls being answered by an electronic menu rather than a live dispatcher.

  November 2, 2009