Showing posts with label Unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unions. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Monday, February 21, 2011

Graham: Obama role in Wisconsin standoff has been 'inappropriate' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Graham: Obama role in Wisconsin standoff has been 'inappropriate' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

"When the president talks about Wisconsin I think that really is inappropriate," he said. "The governor of Wisconsin is doing what he campaigned on ... there was an election on his proposals and he won." Obama said last week that the collective bargaining reform proposal "seems like more of an assault on unions." His campaign arm Organizing for America has also helped coordinate protests in Wisconsin. Graham said that Gov. Scott Walker (R) was open about his plans to reform collective bargaining while campaigning and now should be allowed to fulfill that mandate. "He didn't take anybody by surprise," he said. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), though, said that assuming the Wisconsin standoff was about budget austerity was like believeing that United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez was just trying to wrangle a few more pennies per pound on grapes.


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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Man charged with 3 counts of murder in Va. attacks - Yahoo! News

Man charged with 3 counts of murder in Va. attacks - Yahoo! News

MANASSAS, Va. – A Salvadoran man who was ordered deported nearly a decade ago but never left has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in a series of shootings and a knife attack in a Virginia suburb of Washington, authorities said Friday. Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro, an illegal immigrant, was charged in the pair of attacks blocks apart Thursday night that left three people dead and three others injured, Manassas Police Chief Doug Keen said.


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