Will Team Biden Weaponize Workers’ Pensions?
Big Labor abuse of worker pension and benefit funds as a means of advancing union bosses’ self-aggrandizing policy objectives is a familiar phenomenon.
The Founding Father’s must be spinning in their graves at the thought that the First Amendment of the Constitution mandates coercion and confiscatory union dues payment to union bosses. Yet that is exactly what labor union lawyers are arguing in their efforts find the Indiana’s new Right to Work law unconstitutional.
CNBC reportsthat “Indiana’s new right-to-work law should be struck down because it infringes upon unions’ free speech rights by depriving them of the dues that fund their political speech, attorneys for a union challenging the law contend.” What they fail to tell the court is they have the right to fund their political speech but only through voluntary, not mandatory, due’s payment. As such, the argument is laughable on its face.
Big Labor abuse of worker pension and benefit funds as a means of advancing union bosses’ self-aggrandizing policy objectives is a familiar phenomenon.
What impact does handing a union monopoly power to deal with your employer on matters concerning your pay, benefits, and work rules have on your pay?
Security guard James Reamsma is disappointed that the Right to Work repeal re-imposes forced-dues payments, but he and his coworkers still have a shot to restore their liberty.