Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s biggest single contribution is from … drum roll please … big labor. The American Federation of County and Municipal Employees gave McAuliffe an astounding $870,000. The union bosses would love to roll back Virginia’s Right to Work law and they are spending millions this year to get it done.
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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.