The Washington Examiner posted an editorial yesterday detailing the decline in Labor Union membership (and the popularity of labor unions) as the influence of Labor Unions in the Obama Administration has grown to new levels.
The article points out:
"First, with only 7 percent of the total, fewer employees in the private sector are union members today than ever before. Even when numbers for both the private and public sectors are combined, only 12 percent of American workers are union members. Fewer members mean less income from compulsory dues. Less money coming into union treasuries ought to result in fewer partisan campaign contributions going out.
"But by borrowing millions from the same banks that labor leaders so often demonize as greedy enemies of the working man, union bosses in 2008 were able to spend record amounts on electing Democrats at all levels of government."
What did the unions get for their money? Let's look at four examples of the Obama Administration showing partiality to unions:
1. Ten days after becoming President, President Obama signed three executive orders limiting what federal contractors can say to employees during union organizing drives, made it more difficult for federal contractors to fire incompetent employees, and directed federal contractors to make sure their employees were aware of their organizing rights.
2. The next executive order required federal agencies to use union-favored Project Labor Agreements on largely federally funded construction projects.
3. The Landrum-Griffin Labor Management Reporting Disclosure Act of 1959, designed to increase union financial transparency on forms required to be filed with the government, was strengthened during the Bush Administration so that union members would know what was being done with their dues. Hilda Solis, Obama's secretary of labor, has nullified those disclosure rules.
4. When the Obama Administration forced General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy, they imposed settlements on the companies that granted ownership stakes of 17.5 percent and 55 percent, respectively, to the United Auto Workers Union. This was a total violation of standing bankruptcy laws.
If you would like to see this kind of political favoritism continue, re-elect your Democrat Congressman. If you are sick of watching unions buy political favors, vote Republican.
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