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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