Labor Union pledges $150 Million to defeat Trump. Good News???? Agree/Disagree?
Unions: No one, be they doctor or ditch-digger, has anything to sell but the actual hours of their life. Banding together into Unions helped end 7-day workweeks, child labor, and seriously unsafe conditions ("next!" ). This gave power to ordinary people. The establishment has been fighting Unions since they started, in the early days literally killing organizers & those who joined them. Repugs have Seriously undermined Unions in the last 40 or so years, a major reason for the decline of upward mobility & the middle class
Eliminating labor unions has been at the top of the republicons' list for decades.
What I want to know is where in the f@(&^ did a union get $150M? If I were a member of that union, I'd be pissed.
Political action is a prime function of labor unions. That's why republicons have been killing unions for decades.
@BitFlipper I know. But $150M of essentially disposable funds?
@bingst they aren't disposable funds. They're an investment. Just like corporations "invest" in political candidates. The ROI is great.
Yep. Provided the union do not then demand quid pro quo privileges.
@MissKathleen That's different to the UK unions, which support the labour party and have a big say in electing its leaders, thanks to their voting allocation.