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.
Even Columbia researchers can’t escape the reality that Right to Work laws and business location and expansion are inescapable intertwined, even though Columbia University continue to try to find other explanations. Yet, it remains undeniable that the one constant in all the state comparisons is pro-worker right-to-work legislation.
[Columbia] researchers found that Walmart was more likely to propose new stores in Right to Work states near the borders of non-Right to Work, and to open those stores even in the face of protests, compared to the borders of neighboring non-Right to Work states.
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.