Big Labor Dumping Millions into Midterm Elections

Striking back against the electorate’s small government fervor, AFL-CIO Political Director Karen Ackerman has said that, “Union Voters are the firewall for candidates that support working families.”

Make no mistake Labor Bosses are pouring millions of dollars, withheld from their member’s paycheck, into this fall’s elections.

The Service Employees International Union has reported spending $1.3 million on ads since September alone, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has spent another $5.2 million.

Ackerman said “The AFL-CIO’s grassroots political program has an incredible reach, with union families talking to 17 million of their co-workers; comprised of union members, their families, retirees and members of Working America. Outside the political party committees themselves, we have the largest political mobilization operation in the country.”

What Ackerman doesn’t mention is that the majority of these “union members” don’t get their paychecks from private employers; they are paid by you, the taxpayers. The AFL-CIO may have once represented the interests of steelworkers, auto workers and teamsters, but now the largest union in the AFL-CIO is AFSCME.

For the first time in American history the majority of union members now work for the government, not the private sector. Generous contracts paid for by your tax dollars have become the main source of union growth. ◆

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