According to the Detroit News, the Department of Labor announced $100 million worth of taxpayer-funded grants have been handed out and Big Labor unions are now flush with cash. In Missouri, the United Auto Workers received a $3.2 million grant, the Utility Workers Union of America and AFL-CIO got a $5 million grant and the Ironworkers got $2 million. The money is targeted for job training but the fact remains, there would be more jobs and more training if Big Labor would stop supporting policies that stifle economic growth and prosperity.
A recent poll conducted by SurveyUSA, a national pollster rated “A” by polling aggregation site FiveThirtyEight, reveals Michiganders of all backgrounds strongly oppose overturning the state’s Right to Work law.
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No union, but especially not one with multiple top officials convicted in federal court of accepting bribes and embezzling workers’ dues money, should be allowed to impose unionization on workers by colluding with company officials to bypass a secret ballot vote. That’s why it is critical that any state incentive package includes a condition that the decision over whether to unionize the proposed Ford-SK Innovation Western Tennessee plant be made with workers having the full protection of a federally supervised secret ballot vote, and absent any backroom deal between company and UAW officials.