The union for government workers is spending over $1.5 million attacking Republican congressional candidates in Michigan and Nevada. The Michigan ad claims that GOP candidate and former House Member Tim Walberg “skipped out” on a vote to bailout the auto industry. Walberg was in the hospital recovering from surgery.
Big Labor is now demanding that, even in staunchly pro-Right to Work states like Virginia, politicians must support compulsory unionism to receive its backing. “There is no doubt that a rising share of elected officials in Virginia are dependent on the Big Labor machine to get in power and stay in power,” noted National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix.
Union officials chalked up a staggering 3,633,290 hours of taxpayer-funded union time in 2016, at a cost to taxpayers of over $177 million in payroll costs alone for just that one year. This includes, for example, over $700,000 spent on travel expenses for union bosses in the Social Security Administration.
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