The Hill reports that Big Labor bosses are making threats to Democrats who don’t toe the forced unionism line. Sen. Blanche Lincoln is the first target to feel the brunt of their new get tough campaign even though she just cosponsored a bill (S. 1611) to federally mandate union monopoly bargaining privileges over every fire fighter, police officer and emergency medical technician in America.
The bill, which union bosses themselves call the greatest (potential) change in labor law in decades, would mean literally tens of millions in new dues revenue from public safety workers who would be fired if they didn’t pay union dues and fees. Forced unionism apologists in Congress have been working on this since the late 1970’s. We would recommend that Lincoln remove her name from the bill just so Big Labor can get a clean shot.
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!
Mr. Fain undoubtedly knows full well that there is a complete disconnect between the UAW hierarchy and the UAW rank-and-file on the Biden presidency and whether workers will benefit from its extension for another four years.
Political pundits of every stripe have noted, and attempted to explain, a dramatic shift in recent years in the coalitions that back America’s two major political parties.