The Right Has a New Playbook to Crush Unions and Enshrine Corporate Power

[Omaha Steve]

The American Legislative Exchange Council is pushing a spate of anti-worker bills in states across the country—the latest in the group’s onslaught on collective bargaining rights.

Juliana Broad April 3, 2024

State lawmakers seeking to dismantle unions and implement anti-worker laws have just been handed a new state-by-state roadmap by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate-funded bill mill popular with Republican legislators.

Although ALEC claims that its proffered labor reforms are designed to protect ​“worker freedom and flexibility,” its attacks on workers over the past 50 years have made it harder for them to organize, harder for local governments to support decent-paying jobs, and easier on big business.

Those attacks, bankrolled by Koch Industries and right-wing donors such as the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, are motivated as much by the desire to protect corporate bottom lines as by the determination to eviscerate a key supporter of the Democratic Party: labor unions.

ALEC has paid particular attention to public sector unions by peddling model bills that prohibit paycheck deductions for dues, mandate high membership thresholds, and introduce automatic decertification, among other anti-labor measures.

FULL story here: https://inthesetimes.com/article/alec-american-legislative-exchange-council-labor-unions-politics

[GiqueCee]

1. ALEC...

... should wiped off the face of the Earth. It only exists to due harm to working people and enrich the greedy scum that already have more money than they could ever spend in five lifetimes. It is a clear and present danger to health and welfare of the nation as a whole.

[et tu]

2. ...but but what about

their children? lol planned 1%hood~

[GiqueCee]

3. I've got a 50-gallon drum...

... of rancid thoughts and prayers for 'em to choke on.

[Martin Eden]

4. Capital vs Labor is an age-old struggle

The rich want more wealth, power, and an ever larger slice of the pie at the expense of working people.

In today's Magaland they dress ut up in false populism draped in the flag and clutching the bible, inciting hate and fear at immigrants and liberals and the LGBTQ.

But the bottom line is they want to pick our pockets and solidify their control by replacing our democracy with an autocracy that will not relinquish power.

[Bluethroughu]

5. Put unions on the ballot and the Right to organize in the State Constitution like Illinois.

This is how to get decades of progress over slave wages.

[Oppaloopa]

6. My son works for the city and they stopped taking dues out of their paychecks in Florida

[Midnight Writer]

7. ALEC-People with too much money using the law to take more money from those that don't have enough.

[SouthernDem4ever]

8. They have perfected the art of getting union members to vote against their own interests

Members keep voting for fascists in all levels of government to cancel their bargaining power. I have been watching this stupidity for 50 years.

[Firestorm49]

9. Thanks, Omaha Steve. Your post sent me into an early morning rage. I took your information and went ballistic on FB.