The Washington Post is reporting that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is crafting a new plan to remake the American labor movement, — moving it further to the political left.
In an interview taped for C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program,Trumka said he was seeking a more formal alliance with other key elements of the Democratic Party’s liberal base, including civil rights organizations and women’s rights groups. The hope, he said, is to then broaden union membership beyond the traditional realm of workplace-based organizing.
Trumka once was an advocate of getting the union out of politics and back into organizing for workers. No longer.
Just say no to government union bargaining in Virginia In our Republic, all citizens have a right to petition their elected officials for redress of grievances, but no one should have special access to decisions over spending public funds, which monopoly bargaining grants union officials.
Las Vegas workers have won a settlement against SPFPA union officials where they must now pay back $4,200 that was illegally taken through forced dues.
AG employee Heather Anderson is suing the IBEW Local 33 union and the State of New Jersey for illegally restricting her and her coworkers’ First Amendment right to stop union dues deductions from their paychecks.