Koch Brothers-Linked Group Declares New War on Unions
Source: Bloomberg
The Supreme Court decision to kill “agency” fees triggers a massive campaign to accelerate the demise of the American labor movement.
By Josh Eidelson
June 27, 2018, 1:51 PM EDT
Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that millions of public sector workers can stop paying union fees, a group tied to Republican billionaires long opposed to organized labor and its support of the Democratic Party has pledged to build on the landmark ruling to further marginalize employee representation.
The conservative nonprofit Freedom Foundation said that starting Wednesday, it will deploy 80 people to a trio of West Coast union bastions: California, Oregon and its home state of Washington. The canvassers were hired in March and trained this month, according to internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. The goal of the multi-pronged campaign is to shrink union ranks in the three states by 127,000 members—and to offer an example for similar efforts targeting unions around the country.
“Their employer isn’t going to tell them, and the union isn’t going to tell them,” said the anti-union group’s labor policy director, Maxford Nelsen. “So it falls to organizations like the Freedom Foundation to take up that mantle and make sure that public employees are informed of their constitutional rights.”
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Hey Maxford Nelsen....................your Right to work for less is BS and we will abolish the Taft-Hartley................mark my words
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there pensions are going to be under attack, there medicare is going to be under attack, because of what happened today, unions fight to preserve those institutions, so that people when they get older are not eating dig food.................and if they really understood a democracy and the union they would understand, that when you have a majority +1 you have a majority representing you the individual, right now you have two + billionaires that do not like you are me, they want money and they only represent themselves, and those same people whine that its getting worse, no shit Sherlock, when all they have do is look at who is on the bench and those that got them on the bench, some of these justices have gone to Palm Springs and Aspen to be seen with these two assholes the Koch's....................amazing
Jane Mayer's book Dark Money nailed what these and others are all about, and Ian Millhiser nailed it his book Injustices..........
I just came back from the landfill and I spoke with the lady letting me in, and I asked her did you hear that the Supreme court is going after public employees, and I asked her if they were Union, she said nope, but her husband works in the state police.............she then said we can save thirty dollars, we do not have to pay..................I looked at her and said, really your social safety programs are for sell at thirty dollars even if you are not in a union you don't have majority+1 ....................it's based on your merit.................
