Maybe it is because he has the federally granted privilege of extracting money from workers as a condition of their employment that makes him oblivious to real world concerns but it’s time that AFL-CIO Boss Richard Trumka gets a reality check about America’s $14 TRILLION debt and the projected trillion dollar plus annual deficits. In his eyes, the crisis is “fiction.” His words not ours:
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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!
On average, forced-unionism states are 23.2% more expensive to live in than Right to Work states. And decades of academic research show that compulsory unionism actually fosters a higher cost of living.
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.