{"id":514,"date":"2009-05-08T17:30:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:13:57","slug":"washington-examiner-the-big-business-of-big-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/washington-examiner-the-big-business-of-big-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Examiner: The Big Business of Big Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s Washington Examiner<\/i>, Timothy Carney has an excellent column<\/a> about President Obama’s plan to "save" Chrysler. As Carney shows, it’s more accurate to call Obama’s plan a bailout of Big Labor and political payback for the UAW union’s exorbitant politicking on behalf of Obama and his party in the 2008 election:<\/p>\n

\n\tThe union\u2019s $1.98 million to Democratic candidates last cycle (not counting the $4.87 million in independent expenditures to elect Obama president) is more than any PAC spent on Republicans. If you combine the political spending of the top three oil company PACs and the UAW\u2019s PAC, Republicans and Democrats come out about even.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeer deeper into the UAW\u2019s finances, and it starts to look even more like a big business. The organization sits on nearly $1.2 billion in investments. This is money the UAW took from the paychecks of workers, money that now functions as an endowment out of which the union pays its staff and subsidizes its golf resort.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBlack Lake Golf Club, which the UAW brags is "one of the finest anywhere in the nation," is owned by the union. Situated at the very top of Michigan, a drive of more than four hours from Detroit, it\u2019s not exactly accessible to the union rank and file.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe resort is subsidized by workers\u2019 paychecks, too\u2014the union currently has $29.6 million in loans outstanding to the resort. That\u2019s not their only posh real estate. The UAW\u2019s Washington headquarters, home base for the union\u2019s $1.6 million-a-year lobbying operation, is a beautiful $2.98 million townhouse in the DuPont circle neighborhood.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile UAW membership has fallen by 32.5 percent since 2002, the national headquarters has kept its spending nearly the same\u2014a reduction of only 1.9 percent. Add these facts together, and it starts to look like the union management exists largely to preserve union management.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThese are the people who would, practically speaking, own Chrysler under Obama\u2019s plan. These are the benefactors of Obama\u2019s upturning bankruptcy law and threatening investors.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Obama\u2019s team will maintain that it\u2019s \u201cthe workers\u201d who are taking ownership of Chrysler under their plan. When Obama and Democrats extend future bailouts and subsidies to Chrysler, they will have even more reason to claim that they are simply helping the workingmen. In truth, subsidies and special favors for the UAW are corporate welfare, and considering the UAW\u2019s political activities, the right word might be crony capitalism.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full column here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nIt’s also worth remembering that the UAW is one of the most militant unions whose leaders relish in intimidating workers<\/a> and lashing out<\/a> at independent-minded employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today’s Washington Examiner<\/i>, Timothy Carney has an excellent column<\/a> about President Obama’s plan to "save" Chrysler. As Carney shows, it’s more accurate to call Obama’s plan a bailout of Big Labor and political payback for the UAW union’s exorbitant politicking on behalf of Obama and his party in the 2008 election:<\/p>\n

\n\tThe union\u2019s $1.98 million to Democratic candidates last cycle (not counting the $4.87 million in independent expenditures to elect Obama president) is more than any PAC spent on Republicans. If you combine the political spending of the top three oil company PACs and the UAW\u2019s PAC, Republicans and Democrats come out about even.<\/p>\n

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