Big Labor's Billion Dollar Bet on Obama

On June 26, the AFL-CIO brass officially endorsed Barack Obama for president. With Big Labor's largest umbrella organization and its member unions pouring unprecedented resources into the general election campaign, the public ought to fear the legislative payback that would ensue if Obama were elected. [snip]

Top on the union agenda is the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" (EFCA), which is better described as the Employee "No Free Choice" Act. If it passes, employees would lose the ability to cast their vote by secret ballot... [snip]

Another union power grab on the fast track is the misnamed "Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act." If it becomes law, the bill would force state and local governments to collectively bargain with union officials over all contracts involving police officers, firefighters, and paramedics -- even in states with laws guaranteeing workers the right to choose... [snip]

But there's more. An Obama White House will also seek law changes that prohibit permanent replacement of striking workers. In advocating a ban on striker replacements union ordered strikes would be automatic winners, and American workplaces would come to a screeching halt in the face of extortionate union demands... [snip]

So the union bosses have found their man. With their billion dollar bet on Barack Obama, they know that the payoff of new union coercive powers will be worth the trouble.

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