Committee President to Trump: Don't Put Anti-Right to Work Congresswoman in Charge of Your Labor Department
The following letter was sent to President Trump by National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix on November 20th, 2024.
Terry McAuliffe’s support from big labor continues to come under scrutiny from the media. The Free Beacon reports that the union bosses are spending big to see him gain control of the Old Dominion:
Unions are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to elect Democrat Terry McAuliffe as Virginia governor in the hopes he will roll back secret ballot protections during union elections and steer lucrative contracts to labor unions, observers say.
According to McAuliffe’s most recent campaign filing, unions have donated$562,030 to his campaign in direct and in-kind contributions.
The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Union, the Communications Workers of America, and others have chipped in.
McAuliffe’s Republican opponent, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, warned on Thursday that McAuliffe may look to repeal recently passed measures that preserve ballot secrecy in union elections and keep members’ personal information private.
Unions “are talking about how they want McAuliffe to ‘repair some of the things’ Republicans have done,” said campaign spokeswoman Anna Nix in a news release.
“Do they mean ending Virginia’s status as a right-to-work state?” Nix asked in the release. “Or repealing the Secret Ballot Protection Act, which guarantees the right to vote by secret ballot? Or the KEEP Secure Act that prevents third party groups from obtaining workers’ personal information?”
The latter two pieces of legislation were authored by Virginia Republican state delegate Barbara Comstock, who said in an interview she is concerned McAuliffe would advance union interests in Richmond.
“I definitely see a risk” to Virginia’s right-to-work status under McAuliffe, Comstock said. “Democrats pay lip service to that” but they “always vote in lock step with the unions,” she added.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s good policy, they do what the unions want,” Comstock said of her Democratic colleagues in the Virginia legislature. “There’s no reason to think that [McAuliffe] has some different view than they do.”
Comstock expressed concern about potential McAuliffe opposition to the KEEP Secure Act, which prevents unions from accessing workers’ personal information, and the Secret Ballot Protection Act, which aims to preserve workplace democracy. Unions opposed both measures, raising concerns their favored candidate might as well.
“That’s how [Virginia Democrats] view it—‘I’m here to help my union guys get jobs,’” Comstock said.
The McAuliffe campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
The following letter was sent to President Trump by National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix on November 20th, 2024.
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