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.
The former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board is condemning the new “Quickie” election rule promulgated by the big labor dominated Board. Peter Schaumber insists the proposed rule represents a “radical manipulation of the board’s election process” and an attempt to “tilt the process in favor of organized labor.”
Schaumber, who served on the NLRB from 2002 to 2010, the latter two years as its chairman, testified before Congress that the “animating concern” of the NLRB’s majority “is the loss of union density in the private sector.”
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.