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A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist. David Willman Los Angeles Times 11/13/2011 Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is […] November 13th, 2011 | Tags: Andy Stern, anthrax, biodefense, campaign contributions, Chimerix, crony capitalism, Democrats, Dr. Eric A. Rose, Dr. Nicole Lurie, Kathleen Sebelius, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., Michael A. Balady, pharmaceutical drug deals, PharmAthene, Ronald O. Perelman, SEIU, SIGA Technologies, smallpox, ST-246, U.S. National Biodefense Science Board, vaccines, ViroPharma Inc. | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Ethics, Food and Drug Administration, Medicine, Taxes, Unions | Comments are closed
Judge rules against SEIU in California fight Alec MacGillis The Washington Post 7/21/2011 A judge ruled this week that the Service Employees International Union improperly coerced workers caught in the middle of SEIU’s high-stakes turf battle with a breakaway union in California, potentially invalidating a 2010 election involving 43,500 employees. SEIU, the nation’s most politically […] July 22nd, 2011 | Tags: Andy Stern, Chicago, Hyatt Hotels, Kaiser Permanente, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), National Union of Healthcare Workers, Penny Pritzker, SEIU | Category: Barack Obama, California, Illinois, Michelle Obama, Unions | Comments are closed
SIGA Human BioArmor 6/21/2010 New York, New York, June 21, 2010 — SIGA Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ: SIGA), a company specializing in the development of pharmaceutical agents to combat bio-warfare pathogens, announced today that Andy Stern, labor leader and prominent advocate for reform, joined SIGA’s board of directors. Mr. Stern is the former president of Service […] April 27th, 2011 | Tags: Andy Stern, biological warfare, Pharmaceutical industry, SEIU, SIGA Technologies | Category: Barack Obama, Health Care, Progressives, Unions | Comments are closed
The Daily Beck 3/3/2011 Police officers are being asked to stand in solidarity with the unions. And why shouldn’t they? No one has a problem with teachers or the vast majority of everyday union members. But the people who are leading these protests, like Van Jones, are engendering revolution and a chaotic spirit across the […] March 3rd, 2011 | Tags: AAAN, AFL-CIO, Andy Stern, Attorney General Eric Holder, Chicago, Colombia, FARC, Fraternal Order of Police, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Hamas, Hatem Abudayyeh, Joe Iosbaker, Joseph Iosbaker, Minneapolis, Mostly Water, New Party, NYSUT, police, Rashid Khalidi, Raul Reyes, Richard Trumka, SEIU 73, Stephanie Weiner, teachers, Thomas Burke, Tom Burke, Van Jones, Woods Fund, Working Families Party | Category: Barack Obama, Communism, corruption, Department of Justice, Education, FBI, Illinois, law enforcement, Marxism, Minnesota, New York, Progressives, Socialism, South America, Taxes, terrorism, Unions, Video | Comments are closed
But we will fight them. Because this is a terrible, terrible deal for America, at a time when unemployment is soaring and the White House has zero plans for creating jobs — unless you’re in the international bank looting business. Everyone involved should be deeply, deeply ashamed of their participation in this, and […] December 6th, 2010 | Tags: AFL-CIO, Andy Stern, Bob King, free trade, Jane Hamsher, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, SEIU, South Korea, tariffs, UAW | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Labor, Progressives, Taxes, unemployment | Comments are closed
16 November 2010 H/T Jared Law of the 9/12 Project: 97 Wellstone Action Training Graduates Won Election Last Tuesday! November 10, 2008 One week after an historic Presidential election, the results have been tabulated for more than 200 graduates of Wellstone Action training programs across the country running for office in 2008. Of these candidates, […] November 16th, 2010 | Tags: Andy Stern, Armond Budish, Communist Party USA, Denise Juneau, Frances Fox Piven, Glenn Nye, Missoula, Progressive Democrats of America, Rep. Keith Ellison, Sen. Al Franken, Sen. Paul Wellstone, Sen. Tom Harkin, Sheila Wellstone | Category: Communism, Elections, Environment, Glenn Beck, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Progressives, The 9/12 Project, Unions, Video | Comments are closed
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