Abigail Spanberger Has Already Voted For Forced Union Fees
For several months in late 2024 and early this year, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Abigail Spanberger pretended to be “undecided” about whether or not Virginia’s highly popular ban on forced union dues and fees as a job condition should remain on the books.
But early this May, after repeatedly being peppered with questions about her stance on Right to Work by freedom-loving citizens, Ms. Spanberger effectively acknowledged that she is prepared to sign into law a Big Labor power grab authorizing and promoting forced union fees as a job condition.
Her sole stipulation is that Big Labor bosses and their puppet politicians never refer to the forced-unionism legislation they send to her desk once she holds the governorship as “Right to Work repeal”!
Democrat’s Anti-Right to Work Stance Was Already A Matter of Record
The fact is, Ms. Spanberger’s support for forcing workers to bankroll a union as a job condition was already crystal-clear even before she told WRIC-TV (ABC) in Richmond that tampering with Virginians’ Right to Work protections “may be necessary.”
As a U.S. representative, she voted twice for the so-called “PRO Act,” a bill that would wipe out all state Right to Work laws across the country, including Virginia’s, while simultaneously handing the union brass a host of other anti-worker, economically destructive special privileges.
In 2023, she once again cosponsored this special-interest scheme before leaving Congress to run for governor.
On top of that, Ms. Spanberger cosponsored union-label legislation that would have federally imposed union monopoly bargaining on all state and local public employees across the country.
Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears Proudly Supports Right to Work
“Abigail Spanberger is now deceitfully claiming her stance in favor of forced union financial support represents the ‘middle ground,’” said National Right to Work Committee Vice President John Kalb. “Despite her word games, the policies she favors are Big Labor’s policies.”
Unlike Ms. Spanberger, the GOP nominee for Virginia governor this year, current Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, is playing it straight with Old Dominion citizens regarding labor policy.
Ms. Earle-Sears has not only signed her Committee candidate survey 100% pro-Right to Work: She posted a video of her doing so on X (formerly Twitter), called out Ms. Spanberger for her past record, and urged her to repent of said record by completing the candidate survey that the Committee also sent to her.
New Poll Shows 89% of Virginia’s Likely Voters Back Right to Work Principle
Not surprisingly, as this Newsletter edition went to press at the beginning of June, Ms. Spanberger had yet to return her candidate survey.
Mr. Kalb commented: “As one of just a handful of states to schedule its gubernatorial elections in odd-numbered years, Virginia’s typical pattern has long been to choose a Democrat governor the first November after a GOP president is elected, and a Republican governor a year into a Democrat presidency.
“For that reason alone, Ms. Spanberger is widely believed to have the wind at her back this year.
“On the other hand, the Democrat nominee and her advisors know full well her years-long record of supporting and voting for monopoly union privileges is deeply unpopular in Virginia.
“Indeed, a statewide scientific poll of likely voters conducted from May 9 to May 13 by the nonprofit group Virginia FREE found that an overwhelming 89% agree that workers should never be ‘forced against their will to join or pay dues to a union as a part of their job.’
“Lopsided opinion surveys like this one are precisely the reason why savvy Big Labor politicians seeking statewide office in Virginia never want to admit plainly they are in favor of forcing workers to pay money to a union as a job condition, even though they are.
“Unless Ms. Spanberger has a sudden, dramatic change of heart, if she wins this fall and like-minded Democrat politicians keep control of the General Assembly, they will move next year to eliminate all genuine Right to Work protections. That’s all there is to it.”
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