Big Labor is targeting failed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Senate seat as the “firewall” in their strategy to keep the pro-Big Labor congressional majority in power this November. Five other states including California, New York, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania will be ground zero for political spending this Fall.
The Wall Street Journal’s Kris Maher reports:
The AFL-CIO is planning its biggest political campaign ever this year, surpassing the $53 million spent in 2008 to help elect President Barack Obama
Trying to avert a Republican takeover of both the House and Senate in the November midterm elections, the labor federation is focusing on a “firewall” of six states with key congressional elections and relatively high numbers of union households: California, New York, Illinois, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
As Independence Day approaches, two new co-sponsors were been added to the growing list of Members of Congress supporting the National Right To Work Act: Representatives Austin Scott (GA 08) and Rep Steve Watkins (KS 02). Now there are 99 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives and 26 co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate! Are your Members Of Congress on this list? Sign the National Right To Work Act petition now!
Gary Jones Plea Deal: “The root of this corruption was compulsion. Federal law gives union bosses the power to force workers under their so-called ‘representation’ against their will, and in states without Right to Work protections to force them to subsidize their activities or else be fired. Those dual coercive powers are what put UAW tyrants in a position to begin with that allowed them to sell out the rank-and-file so they could live large.
Just last year, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed legislation granting government union bosses “exclusive” representation control over an additional 20,000 public employees.