National Right to Work president Mark Mix recently wrote in the Washington Examiner about the Obama Administration's refusal to attend the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Providence at the behest of militant union bosses. The message to mayors was clear: Hand over your cities and taxpayers' dollars to the union bosses.
Miami mayor Manny Diaz, outgoing president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), has accused the White House of "setting a very dangerous precedent" during the organization's 2009 annual meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. Vice President Joe Biden, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, and Cabinet members Shaun Donavan, Arne Duncan, and Gary Locke had all been slated to attend.
Not one showed up.