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Mark Mix in the Washington Examiner: When Big Labor plays with fire, taxpayers get burned

Anthony Riedel — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:07:20 -0400

Earlier this week, Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work, was published in the Washington Examiner warning about the threat the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill (pdf), which just passed the House last week, poses not only public safety workers' rights, but also state and community budgets. As we noted before, public officials across the country are waking up to the fact that public sector forced unionism is behind the financial crises in their communities.

From Mark Mix's commentary:

Mark Mix: Facade of GM/UAW union boss fiscal responsibility to cost taxpayers even more

Anthony Riedel — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:14:14 -0400

Today, National Right to Work President Mark Mix was published in the Investor's Business Daily exposing how General Motors (GM) and United Autoworker (UAW) union bosses colluded to use taxpayer dollars to "pay back" the taxpayers for the government bail out it received last year:

...GM leaders and the UAW officials who colluded with them to extract $43 billion out of taxpayers in exchange for arguably worthless stock are now patting themselves on the back for paying back on April 21 the balance of a $6.7 billion loan they took out from taxpayers as part of the 2009 bankruptcy package.

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Did Big Labor Break the Bank in the 2008 Elections?

Will Collins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:37:56 -0400

To readers who followed Big Labor's record-breaking political contributions last election, it should come as no surprise that the AFL-CIO and the SEIU officials are hinting at big union debts. Of course, so long as the union bossses have a basically unrestricted right to to collect (and jack up) forced union dues, they will not have trouble raising revenue until most American jobs are destroyed.

But don't be surprised to see the union bosses lining up at the federal bailout trough (again) to exploit the situation. Here's the Wall Street Journal: