Posted on 12/19/2016 1:44:08 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Labor leaders talk a big game to justify their stranglehold on American workplaces. Take AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: “Solidarity can mean the difference between life and death.”
According to the financial reports of three major labor unions—the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and National Education Association (NEA)—Big Labor spends huge sums of money on implicitly political advocacy far removed from worker “solidarity.”
In 2016, Trumka’s AFL-CIO sent nearly $700,000 to Catalist, a leading Democratic Party data firm founded by Harold Ickes—a former Hillary Clinton aide—and supported by none other than George Soros. The AFL-CIO also sent about $338,000 to New Partners Consulting—a political consulting firm run by former Democratic Party officials—and more than $292,000 to the Pivot Group, a Democratic direct mail firm. (Pivot lists Clinton’s presidential campaign as one of its clients.) Even worse, the AFL-CIO classified a $108,480 payment to ShareProgress as a “representational activity.” What is ShareProgress? A “progressive” technology firm serving the “political left. . ."
Hyperbole aside, union bosses project the image that they are America’s premier worker advocates—fighting for coal miners and protecting fast-food employees from Big Business. But 2016 union disclosure documents paint an entirely different picture.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Obvious threat.
Richard Trumka is a terrorist
In 1988-89 he led a United Mine Workers Strike that by today’s standards would be organized terrorism
Exactly.
Unions have never been more than a communist money laundering operation.
The question needs to be asked. Are the unions representing the worker or the dimoKKKRAT party? I say they represent the dimoKKKRATS over the rank and file. I hope Trump brings this out.
I know, and have criticized, the UFT using our dues monies to subsidize a local rally for Eric Garner and the turds carrying on Occupy Wall Street. I know Randi Weingarten had her eye on a cabinet position in a Hillary administration and used the American Federation of Teachers (of which she is the prez) as a Hillary campaign organ rather than as an instrument to help its dues paying members—teachers. There have been under the table payoffs, expensive junkets on the union dime, and heaven knows what other abuses. I am all for oversight of where union monies are spent and whether they are spent appropriately (to help the people who pay them).
And yet these same unions will be begging for a taxpayer bailout of their underfunded pensions.
Under the Supreme Court’s Beck decision (1988), union members can demand to not pay the portion of Union Dues that go to political causes...
http://www.mackinac.org/1403
Of course, any member who did this would be unpopular with the Union Bosses!
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