The Chicago Tribune has uncovered an interesting twist in union organizing — companies and Big Labor unions cutting deals to allow union activists to coerce workers into joining a union, as long as the union bosses don’t publicize their activities. The deals acknowledged Saturday by union officials are with Sodexho Inc., the Compass Group USA, and the Aramark Corp.
Caught in the middle between union bosses and corporate executives are the workers who are now getting it from both ends.
With CTU President Stacy Davis Gates calling the shots, taxpayer costs for Chicago schools are skyrocketing even as educational outcomes get worse and worse. But the miserable status quo works for Big Labor politicians.
Year after year, Big Labor-dominated Illinois is losing taxpaying citizens to states where union bosses wield less unwarranted power. That’s now true of neighboring Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin.
Taxpayers in forced-unionism Illinois have seen their tax burdens skyrocket, their public debt liability soar, and the quality of their K-12 schools and other vital public services deteriorate.