Posted on 09/11/2001 1:13:41 AM PDT by TomServo
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:45:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
This Labor Day we took note of a recent Federal Elections Commission report that concluded that such is organized labor's financial muscle within the Democratic Party that the AFL-CIO and other unions enjoyed the "authority to approve or disapprove plans, projects and needs of the [Democratic National Committee] and its state parties" in the 1996 elections. If the unions want to support the Democrats, we wrote, that's fine by us, though we have repeatedly aired our objections to their doing so in ways that violate the Supreme Court's Beck decision against the use of compulsory union dues for political purposes. This week, as the prosecution wraps up its case in the perjury trial of former Teamsters President Ron Carey, it's becoming ever more clear that the status of Democratic power-brokers may have tempted some union officials to divert their organizations' funds for internal union politics as well.
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