**The Left And Their Union Masters**
The Left And Their Union Masters
_Authored by Aaron White via RealClear Wire (https://realclearwire.com/articles/2023/06/26/the_left_and_their_union_masters_942932.html),_
**If political rhetoric was subject to the same rigid labeling standards American manufacturers are expected to meet, liberals would have to call themselves something else.**
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The term was undoubtedly test-marketed to evoke the image of someone more broadminded and generally more tolerant of others’ points of view.
Does that describe any leftist you know?
When liberals claim to prize diversity above virtually any other commodity, they’re referring only to differences in things that don’t matter and, by their own admission, human beings are born to be. **Things like race, gender and sexual orientation.**
**Opinions and actions, on the other hand, are fair game for the most soul-crushing forms of discrimination.**
If that sounds like an exaggeration, you haven’t ventured onto a college campus or spent time on social media platforms, whose sole purpose is to quash viewpoints with which those in power disagree.
Less obvious to the naked eye, unfortunately, is perhaps the single-largest funding source for this toxic ideology — organized labor in general and government employee unions in particular.
**Because the whole idea of collective bargaining** is based on excusing a relative handful of union members from the forces of supply and demand with which unorganized workers must contend, **it only follows that union leaders would be suspicious, at best, of America’s market-driven economy**. But at least those representing workers in the private sector understand their demands must be tempered by the employer’s need to earn profits.
**Government employee unions, however, recognize no such constraints.**
Members of groups like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and teachers’ unions like the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are paid by tax dollars funneled through public employees’ paychecks. Consequently, leaders of their unions have a vested interest in growing the size and scope of government, regardless of how that impacts the rest of us.
Unlike their peers in the real world, government union leaders know they aren’t dependent on the goodwill of millions of consumers, so they generally don’t care about whether their membership agrees with their stances. And if they don’t agree, they rely on bullying strategies to stop them from leaving and the overall size of government growing. So they focus on working with greedy politicians who can raise the taxes needed to advance a liberal agenda that has nothing whatsoever to do with workers’ pay or working conditions.
For example:
- At the height of the COVID pandemic, leaders of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) **demanded (https://nypost.com/2020/07/13/la-teachers-union-wants-more-money-by-defunding-the-police/) the defunding of law enforcement and universal Medicare in return for returning to the classroom**;
- The NEA used its 2020-21 annual conference to debate a pair of resolutions expressing the group’s public support for Palestinian statehood and condemn (https://www.nationalreview.com/news/nations-largest-teachers-union-to-consider-resolution-condemning-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians/) Israel’s “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians;
- AFT President Randi Weingarten has used her union to wage a massive assault (https://www.foxnews.com/media/randi-weingarten-calls-gun-confiscation-courage-australia-new-zealand) on the Second Amendment — including outright weapon confiscation — **saying the U.S. must follow “what other great democracies” have done to ban guns;**
- Under President Mary Kay Henry, the SEIU in 2022 partnered (https://19thnews.org/2022/05/seiu-president-mary-kay-henry-climate-care/) with the Green New Deal Network for a series of protests to present a united front on climate legislation **as they urged Congress to pass President Biden’s bloated “Build Back Better” proposal** before the midterms; and,
- Declaring that “racial, social and economic equality are top priorities for AFSCME,” the union in 2018 adopted Resolution 51 (https://www.afscme.org/members/conventions/resolutions-and-amendments/2016/resolutions/racial-justice-and-public-safety), calling for, among many things, “bias training, which helps identify built-in prejudices.”
The Left has long accused conservative political candidates and causes of being funded by huge, faceless corporate interests — a notion thoroughly invalidated, incidentally, via such companies An…
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"content": "**The Left And Their Union Masters**\n\nThe Left And Their Union Masters\n\n_Authored by Aaron White via RealClear Wire (https://realclearwire.com/articles/2023/06/26/the_left_and_their_union_masters_942932.html),_\n\n**If political rhetoric was subject to the same rigid labeling standards American manufacturers are expected to meet, liberals would have to call themselves something else.**\n\n_https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/biden%20mic.JPG?itok=FkR1Of4g (https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/biden%20mic.JPG?itok=FkR1Of4g)_\n\nThe term was undoubtedly test-marketed to evoke the image of someone more broadminded and generally more tolerant of others’ points of view.\n\nDoes that describe any leftist you know?\n\nWhen liberals claim to prize diversity above virtually any other commodity, they’re referring only to differences in things that don’t matter and, by their own admission, human beings are born to be. **Things like race, gender and sexual orientation.**\n\n**Opinions and actions, on the other hand, are fair game for the most soul-crushing forms of discrimination.**\n\nIf that sounds like an exaggeration, you haven’t ventured onto a college campus or spent time on social media platforms, whose sole purpose is to quash viewpoints with which those in power disagree.\n\nLess obvious to the naked eye, unfortunately, is perhaps the single-largest funding source for this toxic ideology — organized labor in general and government employee unions in particular.\n\n**Because the whole idea of collective bargaining** is based on excusing a relative handful of union members from the forces of supply and demand with which unorganized workers must contend, **it only follows that union leaders would be suspicious, at best, of America’s market-driven economy**. But at least those representing workers in the private sector understand their demands must be tempered by the employer’s need to earn profits.\n\n**Government employee unions, however, recognize no such constraints.**\n\nMembers of groups like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and teachers’ unions like the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are paid by tax dollars funneled through public employees’ paychecks. Consequently, leaders of their unions have a vested interest in growing the size and scope of government, regardless of how that impacts the rest of us.\n\nUnlike their peers in the real world, government union leaders know they aren’t dependent on the goodwill of millions of consumers, so they generally don’t care about whether their membership agrees with their stances. And if they don’t agree, they rely on bullying strategies to stop them from leaving and the overall size of government growing. So they focus on working with greedy politicians who can raise the taxes needed to advance a liberal agenda that has nothing whatsoever to do with workers’ pay or working conditions.\n\nFor example:\n\n- At the height of the COVID pandemic, leaders of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) **demanded (https://nypost.com/2020/07/13/la-teachers-union-wants-more-money-by-defunding-the-police/) the defunding of law enforcement and universal Medicare in return for returning to the classroom**;\n- The NEA used its 2020-21 annual conference to debate a pair of resolutions expressing the group’s public support for Palestinian statehood and condemn (https://www.nationalreview.com/news/nations-largest-teachers-union-to-consider-resolution-condemning-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians/) Israel’s “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians;\n- AFT President Randi Weingarten has used her union to wage a massive assault (https://www.foxnews.com/media/randi-weingarten-calls-gun-confiscation-courage-australia-new-zealand) on the Second Amendment — including outright weapon confiscation — **saying the U.S. must follow “what other great democracies” have done to ban guns;**\n- Under President Mary Kay Henry, the SEIU in 2022 partnered (https://19thnews.org/2022/05/seiu-president-mary-kay-henry-climate-care/) with the Green New Deal Network for a series of protests to present a united front on climate legislation **as they urged Congress to pass President Biden’s bloated “Build Back Better” proposal** before the midterms; and,\n- Declaring that “racial, social and economic equality are top priorities for AFSCME,” the union in 2018 adopted Resolution 51 (https://www.afscme.org/members/conventions/resolutions-and-amendments/2016/resolutions/racial-justice-and-public-safety), calling for, among many things, “bias training, which helps identify built-in prejudices.”\n\nThe Left has long accused conservative political candidates and causes of being funded by huge, faceless corporate interests — a notion thoroughly invalidated, incidentally, via such companies An…\n\nhttps://www.zerohedge.com/political/left-and-their-union-masters",
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