Exactly as in Canada: The freedoms of the common union worker are being strangled by undemocratic, totalitarian, dinosaur labor union policies and practices which should be banned in both our countries. The hysterically hypocritical truth is that those far-liberal-leftists—the labor unions—don’t celebrate the “diversity” they as liberal-leftists pretend to so care about—they squash it at every turn —or at least the “diversity” bits they don’t like.
It’s a little like me having to pay for the far-left state-owned, state-run CBC, which fights or undermines—or tries to—everything I think and believe and stand for and advocate, and they have the gall to do it in the name of, among other things, “tolerance” and “diversity” and “Canadian Values”.
But don’t worry, Canadians, just sit there.
Todd Palin: Sorry Dear
09/16/2008
It so happens that Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd Palin—a member of the United Steelworkers (USW) union—is funding efforts to defeat and even smear his wife.
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix has informed Mr. Palin by open letter that he does have the right to cut off “forced” union dues being spent by the USW to defeat the Republican ticket of Sen. John McCain and Mrs. Palin.
“While I’m sure you’re excited by your wife’s candidacy for high office, you may be discouraged to learn that the union dues you pay are already being used to defeat her,” writes Mr. Mix, reminding the candidate’s husband that when his USW bosses endorsed Democratic Sen. Barack Obama in June they pledged to support his campaign with funds collected from union members.
“In fact, at the USW’s 2008 convention, union officials adopted a resolution ‘vowing to play a key role in electing Obama,’ thus pledging workers’ dues to the effort to defeat your wife’s candidacy,” he adds.
“Moreover, a top USW official whose paycheck you help fund is viciously ridiculing your wife’s candidacy on the Steelworkers’ Web site, calling Governor Palin’s selection ‘cynical’ and claiming that by choosing your wife ‘McCain has clearly shown he lacks the judgment to be president.’”
Mr. Mix says Alaska does not have a right to work law, but under the Supreme Court precedent “Communications Workers v. Beck,” employees are able to stop paying forced union dues unrelated to collective bargaining, such as union electioneering.
Here, unions—and taxpayer-funded organizations—fight for pro-abortion causes, gay ‘marriage’, anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian causes, ant-Bush, anti-Harper, anti-capitalist, anti-anything-remotely-conservative, anti-Christian causes, and so on. Like the CBC in many ways.
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