To regular readers of Freedom@Work [1], it's certainly no secret that Big Labor's union bosses, in the face of greater difficulty in winning workers over voluntarily, are always working to come up with new schemes [2] to force workers into full-dues-paying union membership.

Of course, one major way union bosses get around this inconvenient truth is to use workers' forced dues for politics [3], essentially buying [4] political power to steer [5] our already intrusive Federal government toward coercive policy [6] to force more workers into union ranks.

On Tuesday, Big Labor's upper echelon announced [7] the formation of a committee dedicated to an alliance of our nation's 12 largest unions.   The unification committee is to be led by Big Labor front group "American Rights at Work" President David Bonior.  Their goal?  You guessed it:  wielding the power of the Federal government to coerce more workers into forced unionism.

Union bosses are prone to freely and constantly shift their associations with each other.  But every day they hypocritically infringe on workers' own freedom of association.