There is an old saying in politics that personnel translates into policy, and in the case of Barack Obama its clear Big Labor will dominate both ends of the equation:
Barack Obama tapped a new political director for his presidential campaign, naming Patrick Gaspard, a former official in the powerful Service Employees International Union.
Prior to joining the Obama campaign, Gaspard was the Executive Vice President of Politics and Legislation for Local 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest local union in the United States. In that job, he helped coordinate political activity and government relations . . . in New York, Massachusetts, Maryland and Washington DC.
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Thanks to the Committee's election-year program, union-label candidates like Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.) are being given a choice: pledge to change course and support Right to Work going forward, or face the potential political consequences.
Biden judicial nominee Nicole Berner has a track record of mindlessly repeating union bosses’ anti-Right to Work diatribes and defending their schemes to profit at the expense of the disabled.
Large unit of over 270 St. Christopher’s Hospital medical assistants, office coordinators, and others will now be free of SEIU union control