Will Team Biden Weaponize Workers’ Pensions?
Big Labor abuse of worker pension and benefit funds as a means of advancing union bosses’ self-aggrandizing policy objectives is a familiar phenomenon.
When 18-year-old college freshman Saira Blair is sworn in as a West Virginia House Delegate, she will become America’s youngest elected lawmaker. And, what is Delegate-elect Blair’s most important issue:
I want to get jobs to West Virginia and one of the biggest ways to do that would be making West Virginia a Right to Work state.
Blair is tapped into the youth culture and she knows that unemployed high school and college grads want jobs and their own piece of the American Dream that was once embraced by most Americans. College students for the most part are not taking out college loans so that one day they can find a job where they will be compelled to pay some unknown union boss just get and keep a job.
America’s youth embrace freedom and opportunity that Right to Work protects. West Virginia’s Saira Blair is certainly a politician to keep your eyes on.
Big Labor abuse of worker pension and benefit funds as a means of advancing union bosses’ self-aggrandizing policy objectives is a familiar phenomenon.
What impact does handing a union monopoly power to deal with your employer on matters concerning your pay, benefits, and work rules have on your pay?
Wherever Big Labor wields the power to collect forced union dues, union bosses funnel a large share of the confiscated money into efforts to elect and reelect business-bashing politicians. Employment growth tends to lag as a consequence.