In exchange for Sen. Barack Obama’s lurch leftward on labor issues, Big Labor is returning the favor by spending millions in forced-labor dues to see him beat Hillary Clinton in Ohio and Texas, key Democrat primary states.
SEIU has already reported spending $1.4 million on his behalf in the Buckeye and Lone Star states.
California’s Big Labor-concocted A.B.5, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019, made it almost impossible for workers and firms to bounce back after 2020’s COVID-19 lockdowns. Now Biden bureaucrats want to federalize A.B.5!
Mr. Fain undoubtedly knows full well that there is a complete disconnect between the UAW hierarchy and the UAW rank-and-file on the Biden presidency and whether workers will benefit from its extension for another four years.
Political pundits of every stripe have noted, and attempted to explain, a dramatic shift in recent years in the coalitions that back America’s two major political parties.