Tyranny Triumphs in the Great Lakes State
Ignoring ample evidence of forced unionism’s unfairness and its damaging impact on jobs and incomes, Big Labor Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Right to Work destruction in 2023.
SEIU, in multiple US cities, is using American forced dues to finance protests in multiple cities including New York and Portland. This is all for the support of a Netherlands’ FNV union because “Many are immigrants … and all are protesting the same types of economic inequality the 99% face here in the U.S.” Sound like SEIU is trying to make Occupy Wall Street a global initiative, and this union is not even an SEIU union that is receiving the benefits of American employees’ forced dues.
The SEIU statement embraces the Amsterdam chant: “SEIU is standing with them … echoing their chants of ‘Schoon Genoeg!’ (Cleaned enough!)”
Enough is enough, SEIU and other unions should not be allowed to force people as a condition of employment to be forced to give to their global political and organizing projects. The National Right to Work Act would go a long way to solving compulsory political contributions.
Ignoring ample evidence of forced unionism’s unfairness and its damaging impact on jobs and incomes, Big Labor Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Right to Work destruction in 2023.
Largely thanks to the Right to Work attorney-won U.S. Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME, union bosses like NEA President Becky Pringle are no longer able to block virtually all meaningful education policy reforms.
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!