{"id":189698,"date":"2021-03-04T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=189698"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:18:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:18:18","slug":"biden-union-blunder-reveals-the-truth-behind-big-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-union-blunder-reveals-the-truth-behind-big-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Union Blunder Reveals The Truth Behind Big Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-union-blunder-reveals-the-truth-behind-big-labor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=189698&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1165921430-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">President Joe Biden often appears to struggle with the English language, providing a never-ending supply of fodder for his many critics.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">But a <span class=\"s1\">two-minute video<\/span> recently posted on Twitter does far more than highlight Biden\u2019s linguistic struggles or offer further empty promises. In it, the president veers accidentally into a candid topic which will worry his friends in the country\u2019s government employee unions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Workers in Alabama \u2013 and all across America \u2013 are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. It\u2019s a vitally important choice \u2013 one that should be made without intimidation or threats by employers.<\/p>\n<p>Every worker should have a free and fair choice to join a union. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2lzbyyii1g\">pic.twitter.com\/2lzbyyii1g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1366191901196644354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Referring to Amazon employees in Alabama under pressure to unionize, the self-described \u201cbest friend labor has ever had in the White House\u201d fulminated, \u201cLet me be really clear: It\u2019s not up to me to decide whether anyone should join a union. But let me be even more clear: It\u2019s not up to an employer to decide that, either. The choice to join a union is up to the workers \u2014 full stop; full stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">While he is correct, the problem is not Biden\u2019s words, but his intent and his actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">In this case, the president is all for workers having a right to choose for themselves whether to unionize. As long as they decide in the affirmative, that is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">For example, prior to the election, Joe Biden had no use whatsoever for right-to-work laws. You know, the ones that safeguard the rights of workers to join a union \u2014 or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Likewise,<em>\u00a0<\/em>Biden openly disagreed with a 2018 Supreme Court decision, <em>Janus v. AFSCME<\/em>, that finally affirmed the right of state and local government employees to <em>not<\/em> pay a union as a condition of employment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Then, he promised to invalidate the decision by executive order, if need be, in order to force every public-sector employee back into union entrapment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Big Labor and Big Tech \u2014 both bastions of left-wing progressivism \u2014 come down on opposite sides of Biden\u2019s blunder.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Big Labor, which has been steadily losing members in the private sector for decades, would like for <em>everyone<\/em> to be forced into a labor union and therefore required to pay dues that fund their lavish lifestyles and radical agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Big Tech \u2014 in particular, Amazon \u2014 has been fighting off unionization amongst its employees because, although \u201cliberal\u201d is a delicate way to describe Silicon Valley, they understand that unionization kills productivity, innovation and the flexibility to reward their best and brightest employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Big Labor claims to be for the little guy, and that without them, American capitalism would bring back seven-day work weeks, child labor and dangerous sweatshops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Big Tech knows better and realizes the only legitimate remaining function for unions is negotiating wages and benefits \u2014 increasing personnel costs that often cut deeply into a company\u2019s bottom line and inflate costs to consumers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Perhaps that\u2019s why, if not for public-sector unions, the Labor Movement might have burned out long ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">When given the opportunity to negotiate for their own workplace preferences and ability to keep more of their own money in their paycheck, many private-sector companies and employees walked away from Big Labor.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Amazon is fighting off unionization everywhere it can because private-sector unions are simply an expensive middleman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Big Labor knows this all too well, which is why they can\u2019t allow companies like Amazon and employees everywhere the opportunity to choose for themselves whether to engage in unionization.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The majority would undoubtedly say, \u201cNo thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Labor Movement remains powerful because of public-sector unions and the millions of government employees who pay into their campaign war chests \u2014 and government never shrinks itself, so there\u2019s a constant supply of taxpayer money to hire new union members.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Just the way the labor dons want it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">That\u2019s why <em>candidate<\/em> Biden promised to grow both public and private sector unions. And the Democrats in Congress already have legislation aimed at forcing both the private and public sector deeper into union clutches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Come to think of it, Big Tech is more likely to have buyer\u2019s remorse on this issue.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Union bosses probably aren\u2019t scratching their heads. They knew what they were buying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>Aaron Withe is national director of the Freedom Foundation, a multi-state public policy organization specializing in the abuses of government employee unions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden often appears to struggle with the English language, providing a never-ending supply of fodder for his many critics.\u00a0 But a two-minute video recently posted on Twitter does &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274759,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1165921430-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Union Blunder Reveals The Truth Behind Big Labor","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1165921430-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Union Blunder Reveals The Truth Behind Big Labor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}