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To: Doren who wrote (601496)	8/8/2004 2:12:54 PM
From: FastC6	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Flush the JOHNS....they are full of SHIT

To: Doren who wrote (601496)	8/8/2004 2:24:26 PM
From: Karin	Respond to of 769670

Not Your Father’s Labor Union Labor unions today are more Michael Moore than George Meany. Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, is author, with Daniel Gray, of the new book Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics. Chavez recently took some questions about unions and the Left from NRO editor Kathryn Jean Lopez. National Review Online: What's the "betrayal"? LINDA CHAVEZ: Most union members think their dues — which amount to an average $600 per year, allowing unions to take in some $17 billion each year — go to providing better representation at the bargaining table. But most unions today now spend substantially more of their members' money on politics and other non-contract-related activities than they do on bread and butter issues. Worse, most members have no say how their money is being spent and many have no idea that their dues are being diverted to far-Left causes that they would never support — everything from abortion rights to opposition to the war in Iraq. NRO:The ties between the Democratic party and the labor unions are such that if it were the GOP & Halliburton we were talking about, there could easily be big-budget documentary exposing it all (and unlike a recent mockumentary, it would even be true!). CHAVEZ: The mainstream media virtually ignores the corrupt relationship between unions and the Democratic party. Even though many unions illegally fund Democratic candidates' efforts by putting union-paid staff into their campaigns or organizing get-out-the-vote efforts that target the general voting population, not just union members (which is permitted) — all of it paid for by union dues — the press rarely looks into these campaign funding violations. Imagine what would happen if a corporation did the same thing with its corporate dollars. There would be congressional investigations, front-page stories in the New York Times, and someone would probably end up in jail. But unions do this sort of thing all the time. I saw it with my own eyes when I worked for more than a decade at the American Federation of Teachers. nationalreview.com