The Washington Post examines efforts by Big Labor bosses to expand their influence in Virginia. Not surprisingly, the union big wigs are trying to buy their influence. Big Labor donations accounted for about half of the $1.3 million the state Democratic Party collected between July 1 and Dec. 31.
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“[L]ast month, state legislation championed by AFSCME and coalition partners [...] was reintroduced to expand collective [monopoly] bargaining . . . to all Virginia public [workplaces]. It is supported by Gov. Abigail Spanberger.”
Union-label state Democrat politicians like Mr. Surovell and Gov. Abigail Spanberger evidently calculated that a mandatory monopoly-bargaining law would be a less politically costly way than Right to Work destruction for them to pay back the Big Labor bosses who had been critical to their 2025 electoral successes.