Mallory Factor Exposes Big Labor’s War on America

March 4, 2013 By Frontpagemag.com Comments (0)

First, all the things that you’ve heard about private sector unions are true — the violence, the corruption, the feather bedding, the wasteful rules, the graft.  But what I discovered in writing “Shadow Bosses” is that government employee unions are far, far worse for this nation.  Private sector unions have to make sure that their demands are not so excessive that the employer is driven out of business. 

Hostess’s bankruptcy — you know, the death of the Twinkie — is just the latest example of what happens when unions representing private sector workers make unreasonable demands on the employer.  Unions end up negotiating members out of a job, as 18,500 Hostess workers learned firsthand.  By the way, it was just announced that the unions that bankrupted Hostess will be receiving generous government subsidies.

But the picture’s entirely different for government employee unions.  Outrageous concessions to these unions don’t drive the government out of business and throw union members out of jobs.  Unwieldy union contracts just make government immensely bigger and more burdensome to you, the taxpayer……. Unions increased their reach over the electorate by using powers available to them under the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United case.  Liberals complain that this case gave corporations more leeway to spend on politics.  But the real story in the 2012 election was about what this case did for the unions, not the corporations....To Read More.....