Posted on 09/21/2007 12:52:11 PM PDT by redwill
The AFL-CIO leadership just put a number on its commitment to the general election: $53 million, the federation is set to announce.
That's money that can be used for unrestricted "member-to-member" communication in House, Senate, and presidential races around the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Court Permission Sought to Alert More Than 12,000 Workers that Union Organizers Illegally Obtained Personal DMV Records
http://www.nrtw.org/b/nr_702.php
The Foundation filed the motion to intervene in Pichler v. UNITE in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania after the court ordered the union to pay damages because union organizers unlawfully used the license plate numbers of over 1,500 Cintas Corporation employees to access their personal information in official Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) records. Union operatives conducted an additional 12,100 searches on individuals who may be employees of other non-union companies targeted by the union. Those individuals are unaware of this illegal invasion of their privacy.
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Unions are dying. Most of their membership is over fifty and as more young people are not able to see forking over $40 a month just for the privilege of having some pimp-squeak Union steward boss them around they have to expand the pool from which they draw members.
It makes perfect sense if you remember two things, unions are a business and all businesses want to grow and that unions are never about the "workers" but about the union leadership gaining more power.
BUMP
The kick in the @ss here for union members, is somewhere near 40% of the membership vote GOP.
The AFL-CIO and its unions said Friday they will spend an estimated $200 million on the 2008 elections, with the nation’s largest labor federation devoting $53 million exclusively to grass-roots mobilization.
In addition, the AFL-CIO said it would deploy more than 200,000 volunteers leading up to the election, with special focus on battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.
“Today the AFL-CIO is sending a powerful message that we are going to change the course of our country in 2008 by electing a president and candidates at all levels who are committed to restoring the promise of America to working people,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said.
The announcement came as the AFL-CIO’s executive council met at the group’s headquarters in Washington to plan the federation’s political strategy for the presidential, congressional and state elections next year.
AFL-CIO leaders are looking to put a Democrat in the White House and help that party pick up as many as six seats in the Senate and five in the House. Democrats took control of Congress in the 2006 elections.
Wouldn't be possible if our congress wasn't for sale
And given that they characterize these expenditures as “member to member” communications, they’ll be using general union treasury funds, i.e., members’ dues, which in 28 states are compulsory as a condition of employment.
In other words, you either pay it or you’re legally fired.
(Liberals typically characterize being fired for something other than your ability to do the job as “discrimination,” but of course not in this case.)
So millions of union members who vote Republican will be forced under threat of being fired to help pay for union boss political activities promoting Democrats and their agenda. (It was just as wrong, BTW, when Teamster officials did the exact same thing in support of Nixon and Reagan, who had their endorsement.)
Thankfully 22 states have Right to Work laws which outlaw job discrimination based on memberership or nonmembership in — or financial support or nonsupport of — a private organization that uses its treasury funds for partisan politics.
Another good example of the abuse: exit polls said 2/3rds of union households here in Michigan voted in favor of our state Marriage Protection Amendment in 2004. Yet the AFL-CIO now officially endorses so-called homosexual “marriage” and opposes all state and federal marriage amendments defining it as only between one man and one woman.
Thus, in Michigan — which doesn’t have a Right to Work law — good God-fearing folks who believe that’s what marriage is are forced, under threat of being fired, to financially support an organization that lobbies to undercut their own families’ values.
As Jefferson said, “To compel a man to provide funds for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is both sinful and tyrranical.”
Amen, Brother Tom.
I can’t wait to buy my new Toyota.
Absolutely no chance of that. You need to understand the rules that the internationals use to prevent this kind of thing.
If the rank and file in a local were to jump ship and vote in local officers to oppose the international's political agenda or raising dues or other major issues, they would be deposed by the international in a flash. The local would be placed into receivership and the international would dictate the local policy until they could find appropriate local leadership to toe the party line.
Receivership or trusteeship been done many, many times in labor history, over many issues.
Between the rules as they are set up, and compulsory unionship for the individual member, its all pretty futile for rank and file that would actually want to challenge union policy. The only real alternative might be decertification of the union. That too is tough to accomplish as well, the rules are complex and the international is prepared to make challenges that can last for years in any big bargaining unit.
We stopped buying anything UNION made years ago.
FEELING GOOD ABOUT IT TOO!
What happened to McCain / Feingold? /s
or the Beck decision?
These b@st@rd$ need to be defunded.
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