President-elect Obama’s plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in public construction will certainly be funneled through union-only construction projects.
Although only 15% of America’s private-public hardhat labor force currently belongs to a union, you can rest assured — thanks in part to the billion dollars in political spending by the Big Labor Bosses — public monies will only be available to companies that are 1) union or 2) pay an inflated “prevailing” wage rate. It will be a raw deal for the taxpayers but a good deal for the union bosses.
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.
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