{"id":746,"date":"2010-11-11T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T10:51:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:07:17","slug":"right-to-work-op-ed-spending-shows-union-bosses-out-of-touch-from-workers-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/right-to-work-op-ed-spending-shows-union-bosses-out-of-touch-from-workers-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to Work Op-Ed: Spending Shows Union Bosses Out of Touch From Workers’ Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nEarlier this year, Gerry McEntee, president of the powerful AFSCME union, explained<\/a> to The Hill<\/i> newspaper that his union’s futile $87.5 million political spending blitz in the 2010 Congressional midterm elections was intended to protect unpopular incumbent Democrats in Washington, D.C.\n<\/p>\n

\nYesterday, Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, was published<\/a> in Investor’s Business Daily<\/i> exposing how union members actually overwhelmingly oppose<\/a> their union bosses’ political spending and agenda. From Investor’s<\/i><\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tTop union officials spent an estimated one billion dollars of union dues in an attempt to re-elect incumbent Democrat politicians back into Congress during the 2010 midterm election cycle. But just how do the rank-and-file workers feel about that?\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite the claims by union heads based in Washington, D.C., when it comes to the critical political and policy questions of our day, union officials do not espouse the beliefs of the rank-and-file members that they claim to represent…\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe poll, conducted October 26-28 by long time pollster Frank Luntz, found that 60% of union members oppose their union bosses’ record political spending in the midterm elections, viewing it a complete waste for union bosses to use union dues and treasuries to protect unpopular incumbent Democrat politicians in Washington, D.C.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThe Luntz\/National Right to Work poll<\/a> (pdf) also found:\n<\/p>\n