Who would of thunk it?
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/ar...29899/1046/RSS
NEW YORK (AP) — Rich, powerful and more popular than ever, the NFL gets closer to a doomsday scenario every day.
Without a deal in the next five weeks to preserve the labor peace that has lasted since a bad month in 1987 — anybody remember scab football? — next season will have no salary cap. That means richer teams such as the Redskins and Patriots will be able to far outspend clubs such as Jacksonville and Buffalo for free agents, while the Jaguars and Bills might try to pinch pennies to stay in business.
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But time rapidly is running out, and it's a brave new world the NFL appears to be entering. Condon warns that what comes beyond 2010 is even more critical for the sport than what occurs this year.
“An uncapped season is not as important as what happens after that,” he says. “A lockout or decertification by the union? Nobody really knows.”
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Budget briefing: Miscounted kids, more slots dough, huge temporary fixes and lingering deficits
http://www.marylandreporter.com/page5502421.aspx
The number of Baltimore City public school kids may be undercounted, and Maryland may get more slots money this year than expected, legislators learned as they began dissecting the proposed state budget Monday.
But more than by any other surprise, lawmakers said they were taken aback by the degree to which the $32 billion budget is balanced on one-time fixes.
...
Warren Deschenaux, the General Assembly’s chief fiscal analyst, and other budget analysts started pulling apart Gov. Martin O’Malley’s fiscal 2011 spending plan for lawmakers who have two months to cut it.
Deschenaux emphasized that O’Malley’s balanced budget depended on one-time fixes and an infusion of federal dollars that would still leave the budget $2 billion out of balance in future years.
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Del. Steve Schuh, R-Anne Arundel, an Appropriations Committee member, said, “I was surprised at how much of the corrective actions are one-time accounting maneuvers, fiscal raids and other budget tricks.”
“I thought we were at the end of this,” Schuh said. “What we’re seeing is a clear road map to a major tax increase next year.”
The number of Baltimore City public school kids may be undercounted, and Maryland may get more slots money this year than expected, legislators learned as they began dissecting the proposed state budget Monday.
But more than by any other surprise, lawmakers said they were taken aback by the degree to which the $32 billion budget is balanced on one-time fixes.
...
Warren Deschenaux, the General Assembly’s chief fiscal analyst, and other budget analysts started pulling apart Gov. Martin O’Malley’s fiscal 2011 spending plan for lawmakers who have two months to cut it.
Deschenaux emphasized that O’Malley’s balanced budget depended on one-time fixes and an infusion of federal dollars that would still leave the budget $2 billion out of balance in future years.
...
Del. Steve Schuh, R-Anne Arundel, an Appropriations Committee member, said, “I was surprised at how much of the corrective actions are one-time accounting maneuvers, fiscal raids and other budget tricks.”
“I thought we were at the end of this,” Schuh said. “What we’re seeing is a clear road map to a major tax increase next year.”
HB 260 - State Personnel - Classification of Positions in the State Personnel Management System
Synopsis:
Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to classify skilled service positions, professional service positions, management service positions, and executive service positions in the State Personnel Management System; authorizing the Secretary to delegate the Secretary's authority to classify specified personnel positions to the head of a principal unit; requiring the head of a principal unit to classify specified personnel positions under specified circumstances; etc.
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A copy of the Bill is not attached ... I'd like to see a copy of it if anyone can produce it.
Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to classify skilled service positions, professional service positions, management service positions, and executive service positions in the State Personnel Management System; authorizing the Secretary to delegate the Secretary's authority to classify specified personnel positions to the head of a principal unit; requiring the head of a principal unit to classify specified personnel positions under specified circumstances; etc.
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A copy of the Bill is not attached ... I'd like to see a copy of it if anyone can produce it.
Budget Analyst Warns (Maryland) Against Counting on Stimulus Funds
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/legislature/bal-spending0126,0,587913.story
Maryland lawmakers should consider a Plan B in case the roughly $389 million in federal stimulus funds Gov. Martin O'Malley is counting on to balance the state's budget doesn't materialize, the General Assembly's top budget analyst said Monday.
What the hell is Plan B and how does it affect State workers?
Maryland lawmakers should consider a Plan B in case the roughly $389 million in federal stimulus funds Gov. Martin O'Malley is counting on to balance the state's budget doesn't materialize, the General Assembly's top budget analyst said Monday.
What the hell is Plan B and how does it affect State workers?
Field Marshall Andy Stern: "Dammit, I Said March Off That Cliff"
http://www.conservativeblogwatch.com/tag/andy-stern/
This is such a good article. Please take the time to read it. We do not need Andy Stern and the SEIU in Maryland.
Massachusetts voters stood at the borders of their state – and the polling places – with virtual pitch forks telling politicians, to paraphrase Johnny Paycheck, “take this agenda and shove it.”
. . .
News to Andy: the Democrats may follow your lead and plow ahead with an agenda that Americans clearly don’t want, but instead of a Second Tea Party limited to Massachusetts, radicals will experience a full-blown national Tea Party come November.
So the paradox facing the left is this: do they allow Field Marshal Andy Stern to order them off the cliff, or do they tell Andy that his investment in spending tens of millions electing Democrats to implement a Marxist agenda was little more than buying fool’s gold. Either way, radical liberals face one ugly year ahead.
This is such a good article. Please take the time to read it. We do not need Andy Stern and the SEIU in Maryland.
Massachusetts voters stood at the borders of their state – and the polling places – with virtual pitch forks telling politicians, to paraphrase Johnny Paycheck, “take this agenda and shove it.”
. . .
News to Andy: the Democrats may follow your lead and plow ahead with an agenda that Americans clearly don’t want, but instead of a Second Tea Party limited to Massachusetts, radicals will experience a full-blown national Tea Party come November.
So the paradox facing the left is this: do they allow Field Marshal Andy Stern to order them off the cliff, or do they tell Andy that his investment in spending tens of millions electing Democrats to implement a Marxist agenda was little more than buying fool’s gold. Either way, radical liberals face one ugly year ahead.
What Does Massachusetts Mean for Maryland?
(Scroll down the page at the link provided for the entire article).
http://maryland-politics.blogspot.com/
http://maryland-politics.blogspot.com/
Monday, January 25, 2010
SEIU and Maryland Donations
The progressive quandry of SEIU
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/23370
"For another union to come onto your turf and take advantage of what you've built, that is piracy on the seas of organized labor," declared Gerry McEntee, president of AFSCME. "What SEIU is doing is bullshit," McEntee shouted, before leading delegates in a chant of "Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!" In his convention speech, Vince Giblin, president of the Operating Engineers, repeatedly referred to SEIU president Stern as the "Darth Vader of the labor movement." Stern's AFL-CIO critics were joined by Terry O'Sullivan, president of the Laborers, a fellow CTW founder. He told the delegates: "What happens in this fight we have with SEIU will determine what kind of labor movement we have...We didn't join Change to Win to raid and hijack another union's members."[ii]
SEIU dues raid v. AFSCME in Arizona
http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008/06/seiu-dues-raid-v-afscme-in-arizona.html
No raiding deal SEIU-AFSCME (California)
http://workinglife.typepad.com/daily_blog/2005/09/no_raiding_deal.html
Some inside dope about SEIU in-fighting
http://theunionlabelblog.com/2009/06/01/some-inside-dope-about-seiu-infighting/
There are many more links I could give you but you get the gist of where my head is on this. When I was researching the campaign finance database I could not believe my eyes. Thousands of dollars are being contributed to MD politicians by the SEIU. It has left me wondering why. It literally jumped off the screen at me. That one question, why, is disturbing.
I hope that Maryland State workers are not headed towards a in-fighting battle between the SEIU and our approved unions. Let's face reality, the unions currently approved are God-like compared to the SEIU. The SEIU had a joint bank account with ACORN at one time ... that says it all. It wasn't until ACORN was shown to the nation for what it really is that they claim to have disassociated with them. I say "claim" ... because I do not believe it.
Andy Stern has visited the White House more times than any other person. That's scary. Andy Stern is a radical and it is his way or the highway. The unions seem to be involved in everything that is occurring federally ... they played a major role in the health care reform debacle. The reason SEIU has so much power is MONEY. It is a simple philosophy ... keep the money pouring in and legislators will work with you on what you want to have approved. This was evidenced by Obama's closed door meeting with the unions to come up with a "deal" on health care reform ... the "deal" was that unions would be exempt from the cadillac health plan surcharge for 6 years. Little did they know that Scott Brown would take Ted Kennedy's seat and blow them all out of the water. The night that Scott Brown won that election was the night my entire outlook on life changed. It showed me that people do make a difference and the little people can work together to change things they do not approve of despite all of the money and closed door deals that are made in DC.
That being said, I have to say I am concerned. We need to be on the ball when it comes to SEIU. The last thing Maryland workers needs is this cut throat union coming in here and trying to take over like they are doing elsewhere. I do not know if that is the intention but I do know they are buying something by way of political contributions ... I just do not know for sure what it is they are after. If it is us ... I will fight that tooth and nail and if push comes to shove, I'll help the other side in doing that.
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/23370
"For another union to come onto your turf and take advantage of what you've built, that is piracy on the seas of organized labor," declared Gerry McEntee, president of AFSCME. "What SEIU is doing is bullshit," McEntee shouted, before leading delegates in a chant of "Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!" In his convention speech, Vince Giblin, president of the Operating Engineers, repeatedly referred to SEIU president Stern as the "Darth Vader of the labor movement." Stern's AFL-CIO critics were joined by Terry O'Sullivan, president of the Laborers, a fellow CTW founder. He told the delegates: "What happens in this fight we have with SEIU will determine what kind of labor movement we have...We didn't join Change to Win to raid and hijack another union's members."[ii]
SEIU dues raid v. AFSCME in Arizona
http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008/06/seiu-dues-raid-v-afscme-in-arizona.html
No raiding deal SEIU-AFSCME (California)
http://workinglife.typepad.com/daily_blog/2005/09/no_raiding_deal.html
Some inside dope about SEIU in-fighting
http://theunionlabelblog.com/2009/06/01/some-inside-dope-about-seiu-infighting/
There are many more links I could give you but you get the gist of where my head is on this. When I was researching the campaign finance database I could not believe my eyes. Thousands of dollars are being contributed to MD politicians by the SEIU. It has left me wondering why. It literally jumped off the screen at me. That one question, why, is disturbing.
I hope that Maryland State workers are not headed towards a in-fighting battle between the SEIU and our approved unions. Let's face reality, the unions currently approved are God-like compared to the SEIU. The SEIU had a joint bank account with ACORN at one time ... that says it all. It wasn't until ACORN was shown to the nation for what it really is that they claim to have disassociated with them. I say "claim" ... because I do not believe it.
Andy Stern has visited the White House more times than any other person. That's scary. Andy Stern is a radical and it is his way or the highway. The unions seem to be involved in everything that is occurring federally ... they played a major role in the health care reform debacle. The reason SEIU has so much power is MONEY. It is a simple philosophy ... keep the money pouring in and legislators will work with you on what you want to have approved. This was evidenced by Obama's closed door meeting with the unions to come up with a "deal" on health care reform ... the "deal" was that unions would be exempt from the cadillac health plan surcharge for 6 years. Little did they know that Scott Brown would take Ted Kennedy's seat and blow them all out of the water. The night that Scott Brown won that election was the night my entire outlook on life changed. It showed me that people do make a difference and the little people can work together to change things they do not approve of despite all of the money and closed door deals that are made in DC.
That being said, I have to say I am concerned. We need to be on the ball when it comes to SEIU. The last thing Maryland workers needs is this cut throat union coming in here and trying to take over like they are doing elsewhere. I do not know if that is the intention but I do know they are buying something by way of political contributions ... I just do not know for sure what it is they are after. If it is us ... I will fight that tooth and nail and if push comes to shove, I'll help the other side in doing that.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
University of MD Professor in Trouble for Being Paid Union Shill
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...-82283272.html
A University of Maryland professor has pulled his institution into a heated labor debate in California, prompting a rebuke from administrators and inviting questions about his own conflicts of interest.
As a paid consultant for Service Employees International, the nation's fastest growing labor union, Fred Feinstein recently wrote a legal opinion suggesting that California health care workers could receive “less favorable” benefits if they left SEIU for another union. Feinstein penned his opinion on university letterhead, which was then photocopied and used by SEIU as campaign literature, urging workers to stay on as members.
What Feinstein did not mention, however, was that he’s on the SEIU payroll and received about $240,000 from the union and one of its affiliates, Change to Win, in 2007 and 2008 according to federal filings.
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/...tein070524.pdf
TESTIMONY PRESENTED BY FRED FEINSTEIN UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
ON BEHALF OF SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION and UNITE/HERE
BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, REFUGEES, BORDER SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON, D.C.
MAY 23, 2007
A University of Maryland professor has pulled his institution into a heated labor debate in California, prompting a rebuke from administrators and inviting questions about his own conflicts of interest.
As a paid consultant for Service Employees International, the nation's fastest growing labor union, Fred Feinstein recently wrote a legal opinion suggesting that California health care workers could receive “less favorable” benefits if they left SEIU for another union. Feinstein penned his opinion on university letterhead, which was then photocopied and used by SEIU as campaign literature, urging workers to stay on as members.
What Feinstein did not mention, however, was that he’s on the SEIU payroll and received about $240,000 from the union and one of its affiliates, Change to Win, in 2007 and 2008 according to federal filings.
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/...tein070524.pdf
TESTIMONY PRESENTED BY FRED FEINSTEIN UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
ON BEHALF OF SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION and UNITE/HERE
BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, REFUGEES, BORDER SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON, D.C.
MAY 23, 2007
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