{"id":293,"date":"2008-06-27T11:13:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T11:13:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:16:14","slug":"big-labor-unleashes-record-political-activisim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/big-labor-unleashes-record-political-activisim\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Labor Unleashes Record Political Activisim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the AFL-CIO <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aflcio.org\/2008\/06\/26\/afl-cio-endorses-obama-launches-meet-barack-obama\/\">officially endorsed<\/a> its candidate for president.  The endorsement should come as no surprise, of course, since Big Labor has always used member dues &#8212; and forced dues from nonmembers &#8212; to support its Far Left political agenda.  But this year&#8217;s campaign will apparently be the largest and most expensive yet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\tThis year, the AFL-CIO is carrying out its largest grassroots political mobilization in history. Thousands of volunteers are helping educate millions of workers and mobilizing them to get to the polls to elect Barack Obama and a working family-friendly Congress. The AFL-CIO union movement is focusing on mobilizing more than 13 million union voters?including union members, families of members, retirees and members of the AFL-CIO community affiliate Working America?in 24 priority states, working to elect U.S. senators and representatives, as well as state and local candidates.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iNxTApa2sQRu0Xx99P3jt2bEXw7gD91I3AEG0\">report<\/a> reports how much money Big Labor is admitting it will spend on electioneering.  (While large, the numbers below understate by several hundred million dollars Big Labor&#8217;s true political spending this year, according to our research.):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\tAs expected, the leaders of the nation&#8217;s largest labor organization voted unanimously to endorse Obama, freeing the organization and its 56 unions to spend some of its <b>$200 million<\/b> war chest on his campaign.<br \/>\n\t&#8230;<br \/>\n\tBetween the AFL-CIO and its chief rival, the Change to Win labor organization, the nation&#8217;s labor movement plans to spend around <b>$300 million on the 2008 elections<\/b>. Change to Win, made up of seven powerful unions that broke away from the AFL-CIO in 2005, already has endorsed Obama. The AFL-CIO represents 9 million union members; Change to Win, 6 million.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Big Labor &quot;represents&quot; so many workers because forced unionism laws compel workers in 28 states to join or pay dues to a union.  Even in Right to Work states, many workers are unaware of their rights, and in some cases union bosses <a href=\"\/profiles\/vielma\/index.htm\">pretend<\/a> Right to Work laws don&#8217;t even exist. Legally, thanks to Foundation-won Supreme Court cases <i>Abood v. Detroit Board of Education<\/i>, <i>Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson<\/i>, and <i>Communications Workers of America v. Beck<\/i>, workers can be forced to pay dues for unwanted bargaining, but may opt out of paying dues which union bosses use on non-bargaining activities such as union politics, lobbying, and member-only events.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut as we so often see, union officials frequently trample these constitutional rights.  Last week, the Foundation <a href=\"\/press\/2008\/06\/union-bosses-forced-drop-threats-aga\">announced<\/a> a settlement reached between an Alaska state employee and the Alaska State Employees Association union, an AFL-CIO affiliate. ASEA union officials threatened Hunsick&#8217;s dismissal for refusal pay full union dues.  Hunsick did not want to support the union&#8217;s political and ideological agenda, but union bosses continually denied him the procedural safeguards guaranteed under <i>Hudson<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen an AFL-CIO activist knocks on your door and hands you a pamphlet explaining who to vote for, keep in mind that the funding behind it all might just be seized at gunpoint (figuratively speaking, in most cases) from folks like Robert Hunsick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the AFL-CIO <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aflcio.org\/2008\/06\/26\/afl-cio-endorses-obama-launches-meet-barack-obama\/\">officially endorsed<\/a> its candidate for president.  The endorsement should come as no surprise, of course, since Big Labor has always used member dues &#8212; and forced dues from nonmembers &#8212; to support its Far Left political agenda.  But this year&#8217;s campaign will apparently be the largest and most expensive yet:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Big Labor Unleashes Record Political Activisim - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/big-labor-unleashes-record-political-activisim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big Labor Unleashes Record Political Activisim - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday, the AFL-CIO officially endorsed its candidate for president. 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