Trump Agencies Protect Workers’ Freedom
Key appointees of Donald Trump have sent clear signals this year that the President continues to understand that standing up for Americans’ Right to Work is good policy and smart politics.
What a racket! The AFL-CIO’s American Center for International Labor Solidarity has received nearly $30 million in taxpayer dollars from the Department of Labor, State Department and National Endowment for Democracy. Taxpayers subsidize 96% of the groups’ funds. In addition to getting their hands in workers’ pockets through mandated union dues, the bosses are using their allies in government to get their hands in the other pocket.
Key appointees of Donald Trump have sent clear signals this year that the President continues to understand that standing up for Americans’ Right to Work is good policy and smart politics.
According to teacher union boss Randi Weingarten, the only reason to oppose monopolistic unions is because you’re a “fascist.” If you buy that, abolitionist, civil rights leader and journalist Frederick Douglass was a “fascist”!!
“As one anonymous MTA insider has acknowledged to Post reporter Nolan Hicks, the monopoly-bargaining privileges afforded by law to Mr. Simon and his cohorts make them so powerful that it’s ‘just easier to light more taxpayer money on fire than fix’ LIRR."