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Today’s planned 4:30pm march from City Hall to Wall Street is expected to be the largest show of numbers in the three week old Occupy Wall Street protest. Unions, community groups, college students and the unemployed – calling themselves “the 99%” who are getting the shaft from the richest 1%, which controls 40% of America’s wealth – are joining in. …

Magic Underpants, who has received millions in campaign donations from mysterious corporations, doesn’t want unions to have that same right. Speaking to reporters after touring a Boeing plant in South Carolina Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pledged to pursue legislation that would prohibit unions from contributing dues to political campaigns. “We have a very unusual circumstance in this country,” …

“Violence is nothing new for unions. Members of the Communication Workers of America attacked a female FreedomWorks activist in February, union protestors threatened to break the neck of a Fox News reporter during a broadcast earlier this year in Wisconsin, and in September of last year, AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka praised Nancy Pelosi for taking Obamacare and driving ‘it down …

“I would shop exclusively at non-union stores in a heartbeat if I had a list of companies to evaluate. This means not staying in union hotels when traveling, not buying groceries from union-stocked shelves, not going anywhere near labor unions whenever possible. If the Labor Unions have declared war on Republicans and have now pledged to serve as Obama’s Goon …

The wait staff is striking at Central Park’s famed Boathouse, whose owners are accused of union busting after paying the city many millions for the restaurant’s concession. This week striking workers revealed that the Boathouse’s trademark bottled water, at $8 a glass, is nothing more than Manhattan tap water. Whoopsie. According to the servers, they’ve been forced to lie to …

RNC chair Priebus is thrilled that the Koch Brothers got their way in the special election to recall Wisconsin’s anti-union legislators. The teabaggers won’t be happy until every labor union in the nation is dismantled.

Verizon made $27 billion in profit revenue in just the last quarter, but wants employees to give up some of their health and pension benefits.

“The group’s website says they raise money for teen scholarships given to those kids who consider themselves homosexual. The past few years the scholarship winners have not simply been young people persuaded to be in this deviant lifestyle, but are students who have unfortunately bought the party line and become involved in activism projects like homosexual clubs and the pro-homosexual …

As he prepared to introduce Sarah Palin over the boos of Wisconsin’s pro-union protesters, wingnut blogger and GOProud backer Andrew Breitbart told labor supporters, “Go to hell!” Because “class warfare” (which, hello, is what the Tea Party stands for) is “un-American.” Raw Story has a much better clip (non-embeddable) taken from the rear of the crowd.

Yesterday GOProud members Matt Hissey and Brendan Kissam crashed a pro-union rally at Philadelphia’s Temple University where their “Union Scum” sign was destroyed by union supporters. Hissey writes on his blog: Two brave college students, who only wanted to bring a different point of view to a protest, were eviscerated, and nearly attacked. This was my first direct confrontation with …

Hundreds of zombies flooded the streets of Madison, Wisconsin this weekend to protest the lack of delicious brains in the Tea Party-dominated state legislature. The zombie chant near the end of the below clip cracked me up.

“The attempt by the Republican party to overreach following last November’s elections and cripple the ability of workers to organize — and, incredibly, to roll back protections like child labor laws, as in Maine, where Republicans are seeking to create a rotating, vulnerable and underpaid workforce that will further disempower low-wage household earners — has generated a backlash unlike anything …

That will come as a shock to public workers.

A Wisconsin judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the bill stripping state employee unions of their collective bargaining rights. The decision, issued by Judge Maryann Sumi of the Dane County Circuit Court, temporarily bars Wisconsin’s secretary of state from publishing the controversial law, one of the procedural requirements for it to come into effect in the state. Publication …

Karl Rove’s astroturf group American Crossroads has been running the below anti-union ad for about a week. Note the clever way they excise the speech of an NEA spokesman.