Don’t Check My Card
By Wes Keene | February 9, 2010 | In Category: General
Unions are understandably upset. This hasn’t been a good Presidency for them. Despite his best attempts, Obama has failed to deliver the health care takeover Unions wanted so badly. To add insult to injury, Obama suggested a tax on “Cadillac” insurance plans, which just infuriated Unions. Obama finally relented, and agreed to give Unions a free ride till 2017, but then the bill died a painfully entertaining death.
Well now the Unions are back and they are giving Obama a mulligan. His new jobs bill (Stimulus II) has lots of unnecessary spending, but only to the tune of $100 billion. To turn this into a full fledged AFL-CIO, SEIU dream bill, Unions will be asking Obama to have Congress put Card Check in the bill. This is a technique that would have worked prior to Scott Brown’s election, but should now be doomed to fail.
This isn’t wonderful timing for Unions to be asking for this. While Union membership has been falling, Democrats are rightfully scared to death of losing their seats in November. Voting for leftist policies is a way to fast track them out of office. Eliminating elections to unionize may be one way of drumming up membership but it’s hardly the right way. If Unions want more dues, they should start advocating for deep tax cuts to business owners, so there is money to hire Union members with. While Unions once presented many benefits to the American worker, today they represent some of the most selfish, tone-deaf, demands from Government.
While Government should be all about saving taxpayers money, to use it as wisely as possible, we learn this week that more Union jobs are now in Government than in the private sector. Isn’t the stated goal of Unions 180 degrees from the goal of saving taxpayers’ money?
If Congressional Democrats want to shed the curse of November, they’d be well advised to put a hatchet to this plan right away.
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