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Check out this Daily Caller article:

“The Obama administration’s Department of Labor is running a social media campaign this week to encourage people to lobby Congress for a minimum wage increase – a move raising eyebrows because it is similar to the campaign messaging being used by Democrats to drive voters to the polls this year.”

The problem?  They are using taxpayer dollars to promote what is essentially a campaign benefitting a political party, raising questions about whether it is appropriate or not.

For example: “The department is asking supporters of a minimum wage increase to tweet a graphic made by taxpayer-funded staffers at the Labor Department.”

Ryan Williams of Worker Center Watch said, “The Department’s audacious actions are even more troubling because it shows that DOL leadership has no qualms about lobbying for labors’ wish list in an election year…Union bosses have plenty of well-funded, front groups to push their job-killing policies, and taxpayers should not be forced to pay for a government sponsored effort to promote their destructive agenda.”

Here, here! 

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We’ve talked about worker centers before.  They’re the Big Labor-funded “charitable organizations” that take the fight to force unionization on American companies and workers one, two or in some cases several steps further than unions are legally allowed.

Well, now according to analysis from the Workforce Freedom Initiative – a pro-workers’ rights group formed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – Big Labor is pumping big money into worker centers.

Does this come as any surprise?  No.  But that doesn’t make it any less reprehensible.  According to the analysis, in 2013 alone, union bosses “pumped nearly $35 million” into these so-called worker centers, which “have skirted federal labor laws.”

One of the most notorious worker centers is the group Fast Food Workers Committee, which “received more than $1.8 million from the SEIU” in exchange for staging protests at McDonald’s and other national fast food chains last year.

As union membership has dropped dramatically in recent years, union bosses have invested even more in worker centers.  Perhaps that’s why “AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka called worker centers the ‘future of unions’ at the labor giant’s annual conference in September.”

If worker centers truly are the “future of unions,” then it’s time our government take another look at them to ensure they follow the same rules and regulations as traditional labor unions are supposed to.

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