CommentsDisplaying olduffer's 10 most recent comments.

• ‘Real News From The Blaze’: End of Big Labor?

  April 4, 2012 at 1:16pm

  Well said Chicagoland76…”The unions took the billions GM gave them for retirement benefits and blew it, then when GM went bankrupt the unions went to the government demanding a second retirement funding by the government and the government gave it to them.” and when Obama ‘caved in’ to the unions by stripped the bond holders, democracy went out the window, America became a tyranny and Obama the tyrant in chief.

• Protesting Barack Obama Brings Tea Party and Occupy Side-by-Side in San Francisco

  February 19, 2012 at 1:31pm

  A few pundits recently, are trying to diminish the Tea Party…fools…we are busy “turning the wheels” that makes America “keep on keepin’ on”.

  I met with a person recently who organized a few tea party events in the last couple of years, asking him if he had any plans. He replied that “it would be a good idea for tea party folks to show up at polling places during the election”, but this has given me a better idea. We should show up ‘en-masse’ at every event that Obama comes to all summer. We can energetically ‘overwhelm’ his diminishing base and make a statement that he is not welcome anywhere in the country. GO TEA PARTY

• See These Stories of Forced Union Membership and Political Contributions

  February 14, 2012 at 8:34pm

  In reply to swalt.

  And so have I Swalt…see Olduffer above, and go to your union and tell them you do not want to be a member…It worked for me, After I handed them the letter above, they don’t even take out the agency fees.

• See These Stories of Forced Union Membership and Political Contributions

  February 14, 2012 at 5:30pm

  In reply to olduffer.

  If you are not a member, you may not be able to participate in union elections or meetings, vote in collective bargaining ratification elections, or participate in other “internal” union activities. However, you cannot be disciplined by the union for anything you do while not a member.
  The Supreme Court, in Communication Workers v. Beck, 487 U.S. 735 (1988), a lawsuit that was supported by the Foundation, ruled that objecting nonmembers cannot be required to pay union dues. The most that nonmembers can be required to pay is an agency fee that equals their share of what the union can prove is its costs of collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment with their employer.
  Except in extraordinary cases, the union’s costs of collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment do not equal the dues amount.
  Beck makes clear that nonmembers required to pay union fees as a condition of employment have a right under the NLRA to object and obtain a reduction of their compulsory payments so that they do not include union expenses for purposes other than collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment.

• See These Stories of Forced Union Membership and Political Contributions

  February 14, 2012 at 5:28pm

  quoting the comments of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison about the tyrannical character of forcing an individual to contribute even “three pence” for the “propagation of opinions which he disbelieves.”

  Under the NLRA, you cannot be required to be a member of a union or pay it any monies as a condition of employment unless the collective bargaining agreement between your employer and your union contains a provision requiring all employees to either join the union or pay union fees.
  Even if there is such a provision in the agreement, the most that can be required of you is to pay the union fees (generally called an “agency fee.”) Most employees are not told by their employer and union that full union membership cannot lawfully be required. In Pattern Makers v. NLRB, 473 U.S. 95 (1985), the United States Supreme Court held that union members have the right to resign their union membership at any time.
  If you are not a member, you are still fully covered by the collective bargaining agreement that was negotiated between your employer and the union, and the union is obligated to represent you. Any benefits that are provided to you by your employer pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement (e.g., wages, seniority, vacations, pensions, health insurance) are not affected by your non-membership. (If the union offers some “members-only” benefits, you might be excluded from receiving those.)

• Ford Tells Chevy to Pull This Apocalyptic Super Bowl Ad

  February 6, 2012 at 1:33pm

  Saw the ad, and said to the “regular folks” watching the super bowl with me…”what’s right about the taxpayers” paying for a super-bowl ad in competing with private enterprise…not only is it not right, it’s not the American way.

  I’ve owned my last GM rig, and am ashamed of driving the one that I presently own and because of Obama’s America cannot afford to replace.

• Olbermann Feud with New Bosses at Current TV Grows: ‘Everybody is Replaceable’

  January 5, 2012 at 4:00pm

  Olbermann?????

• Meghan McCain on MSNBC: If Dad Endorsed ‘Moron’ Santorum ‘I’d Be, Like, Slitting My Wrists’

  January 5, 2012 at 3:57pm

  Meagan McCain is a “useful idiot” for the MSM. Her ‘name’ is the her only attribute. ‘Clueless’ is too weak a word to describe her mental state.

• Happy Holidays from Ed Schultz: Tea Party Republicans Are Like ‘Sewer Rats’

  December 24, 2011 at 3:25pm

  If it weren’t for these clips on “The Blaze” we’d have no idea how the “progressive agenda” works.
  I was raised in ND, and never met anyone there who is so full of hate. Those ND winters have a way of ‘weeding out’ the sleaze.

• Happy Holidays from Ed Schultz: Tea Party Republicans Are Like ‘Sewer Rats’

  December 24, 2011 at 3:05pm

  And there you have the essence of the “Progressive Agenda”. Any politician who stands on principle is a “sewer rat”.

  May God make his face to shine on the USA…we need him more than ever before. Merry Christmas to all of you.