Labor Day a harsh reminder unions turned into the bosses they pretend to dislike
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Labor Day should be a time for celebrating the American worker, not just enjoying an extra day off work or the unofficial end of summer. Yet every year union officials inevitably attempt to steal the spotlight from rank-and-file workers in order to argue for more government-granted powers to the detriment of the rights of the very workers they claim to represent.
You see, today’s unions are built on the government-granted power to compel workers into their ranks. In the 24 states without right-to-work laws, union officials can legally extort private sector workers to “pay up or be fired.”
Even for the millions of Americans for whom union financial support is ostensibly voluntary, they have no choice but to accept union bargaining over their wages and working conditions. The fact that individual employees may
