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Do you remember your last birthday? What was it that you wished for? Did you get it? I ask because this week marks Obamacare’s first birthday! Birthdays are generally a cause for joy and celebration — but this birthday is an exception. (more)

Republican Reps. Mike Turner of Ohio and Dan Burton of Indiana are asking House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, California Republican, to dig into the Obama administration’s decision to cut more than 20,000 private-sector workers’ pensions and eliminate their health and life insurance plans during the General Motors (GM) bailout in 2009. (more)

It’s not every day the AFL-CIO encourages workers to dismantle their labor union and abandon collective bargaining, but in the case of the NFL Players Association’s battle with team owners, Big Labor is cheering it on. (more)

Wisconsin’s teachers are required to teach children about the history of the labor union movement and collective bargaining in the United States, per a law former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle signed in December 2009. Wisconsin’s Assembly Bill (AB) 172 requires the state’s teachers to incorporate “the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process” into their lesson plans. (more)

As we follow events in Wisconsin, a history lesson is appropriate. History has a message for Governor Scott Walker and the people of Wisconsin whose electoral mandate he seeks to implement. It is, very simply, that Mr. Walker should not compromise. Principled leadership will prevail over the orchestrated thuggery of the public unions, notwithstanding the unions’ conspicuous support from our nation’s most aggressive “community organizers.” (more)

The Wisconsin workers who have staged a week-long protest against their union-busting governor are getting some Big Apple reinforcements. (more)

In the hours before Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt’s president, the Egyptian people were raging for freedom in the streets of Cairo. Back in Washington D.C., lefty organizations were plotting, too, wondering: “How can we capitalize on those protesters’ positive narrative?” (more)

In his speeches since being elected UAW president, Bob King has been like an erratic driver, swerving from one side of the road to another. Sometimes he speaks in unthreatening tones, defending freedom of speech and assembly. Minutes later, he can revert to the confrontational rhetoric that so damaged both Detroit and the UAW. (more)

Rep. Phil Gingrey, Georgia Republican, is spearheading legislation that would stop federal employees from doing union activities while on the clock. Gingrey’s bill, the Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2011, would stop federal employees from doing arbitration, collective bargaining and compiling lists of grievances for their bosses during working hours. (more)

As Chinese President Hu Jintao visited with President Obama Wednesday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the leader of the largest labor union in the United States, delivered a speech at the National Press Club. (more)

Republican Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey plans to introduce a bill that will restore the Department of Labor’s union election rules for specialized industries, like airline workers, to what they were before President Barack Obama took office. (more)

After getting the major tax deal passed in the House on Thursday night, the president will sign the bill today and will hand Republicans their first full-fledged victory, before they’re even sworn in as the majority party in Congress. But, even as the president prepares to sign the legislation, he’s hosting labor leaders at the White House, leaders who have expressed disappointment over the deal and the White House’s handling of the law. (more)

A rule change made by the Obama administration last May aimed at making it easier to unionize has put Delta Airlines squarely in union sights. (more)

On November 3rd, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) failed in its bid to represent Delta Air Lines flight attendants after a heated, five-week-long campaign. In a 9,544 to 8,778 vote, Delta flight attendants reaffirmed their oft-expressed desire to remain a union-free shop. Game over, the matter settled, right? (more)

During this past election cycle, labor unions invested over $200 million in support of Democrat candidates. Much of that money came from four of the country’s largest unions: the AFL-CIO and SEIU’s combined contribution was $88 million, AFSCME added $91 million and the National Education Association $40 million. This money was donated to Democrat candidates in hopes of helping them maintain a majority in the House. These hopes were crushed on November 2nd when the Republicans took back control of the House with a resounding win. This loss has effectively ended the unions’ dream of getting the Employee Free Choice Act (card check) enacted in the near future. (more)

For nearly two years, talk concerning labor law reform has centered on the Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act (EFCA). As the Congressional session progressed and the small business community organized, the likelihood of EFCA’s passage — or any legislation eliminating the secret ballot and mandating binding arbitration — diminished. And as EFCA’s chances of passage began to fade, Big Labor shifted its attention to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent federal agency whose mission is to “prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions.” (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) won a tough re-election fight by making promises to his constituents and now he has the tough job of delivering in the lame-duck session. (more)

Big Labor is desperately trying to save besieged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Over 150,000 union members and their affiliates are working for Reid’s reelection throughout Nevada, a massive coordinated effort between the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees Union (SEIU), and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), among others. (more)

The city could face even more legal trouble from teachers over the controversial effectiveness ratings, union officials told the Daily News. (more)

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted the public-sector union ahead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and a flock of new Republican groups in campaign spending. (more)