Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives went to the White House on Thursday to meet with President Obama. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri emerged from the meeting in a ponderous mood. "Where is the President's leadership on reining in our out-of-control debt and helping Americans get back to work?" she asked in a statement issued after the fact.
There's a lot going in that sentence, much of it stupid. Let's break it down.
Last Friday, 115 teachers with the Kansas City, Missouri, School District received notice that their contracts would not be renewed for the 2011-12 school year, district representatives confirm.
One of the axed educators, English teacher Amy Smith (not her real name), was
interviewed as part of this week's feature story on Southwest High
School.
Last Friday, 115 teachers with the Kansas City, Missouri, School District received notice that their contracts would not be renewed for the 2011-12 school year, district representatives confirm.
One of the axed educators, English teacher Amy Smith (not her real name), was
interviewed as part of this week's feature story on Southwest High
School.
This week, in We Elected This Asshole?!? ...
Jim Lembke, a Republican state senator from St. Louis County, is tired of this shit. All these goddamn unemployed people bitching about the job market and sucking at the government's worn-out tit need to shut the hell up, polish up their resumes and find their asses a job. Actually, no! That's too easy! What they should do is find themselves two or three jobs, just to prove that they're not a bunch of pussies.
No, seriously, this how he feels:
Anybody who has been following Harley-Davidson's yearlong effort to retool operations by stripping away workers and wrangling concessions from labor unions knew this day was coming. The legendary motorcycle maker and Kansas City labor unions have announced that they reached an agreement. Yeah, job cuts are coming.
According to The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal (Harley's hometown paper), the new deal will ax 145 union positions when it goes into effect in 2012. That will leave the Kansas City Harley plant, which makes the Sportster, Dyna and VRSC bikes, with 540 full-time employees, down from 685 today, and 145 temporary and seasonal employees.
Harley-Davidson has reached an initial collective-bargaining agreement with its unions at the motorcycle maker's Kansas City plant, according to the Kansas City Business Journal.
We don't know what this agreement entails exactly, but details should become public after the unions meet with their members today and vote on the deal on Monday.
Most reigns, thank God, must come to an end. But as Rep. Cynthia Davis descends into nothinghood after her unsuccessful battle with Senate incumbent Scott Rupp, the moment doesn't come without causing us a tiny twinge of despair.
We'll miss chronicling her bootylicious pat downs, her hot sex tips, her affinity for chickens en masse, and her saucy predilection for mixing guns and church.
Thursday, we found out the feeling is mutual.
The third act of Harley-Davidson's yearlong effort to muscle unions at manufacturing plants is upon us.
In an almost comically transparent cycle, the hog builder bullied employees at its York, Pennsylvania, plant into wage and staff cuts late last year by claiming it would move jobs to Kansas City. Then, earlier this year, Harley got employees in Wisconsin -- the company's home state -- to give in to corporate demands, also with KC's plant waiting to Hoover-up jobs.
Now it's our own 800 Harley workers' turn to crumble before management and simply try to save as many jobs as possible. If they don't, plant operations could move to, of all places, York.
First, Folgers and now Harley-Davidson. The motorcycle maker is threatening to bolt Kansas City unless plant employees bow to wage and other concessions.
KMBC Channel 9 reported that Harley-Davidson could merge the Kansas City plant's operations with those in York, Pennsylvania, a threat that Harley-Davidson has been using in plant cities across the nation.
Of the mind that reporters are going the way of blacksmiths, the Kansas Department of Education plans to stop funding journalism courses with vocational-ed dollars.
State officials want the Career and Technical Education fund to emphasize "high-demand, high-skill and high-wage fields," according to a report in The Topeka Capital-Journal. The journalism profession does not fit this criteria, a fact made sadly evident by the most recent round of pack-up-your-AP-sytlebooks at The Kansas City Star.
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