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(8,652 posts)Supreme Court appointments that voted against right to work laws.
Sent Perez to settle IBEW contract dispute with Verizon. I know the negotiators during that dispute and they said they could not have "won" that dispute without Perez's assistance.
As an organizer, the rules became much more union friendly under Obama.
Most of the anti-union laws are coming from individual states. Whenever the Republicans gain all three braches in a state government (i.e Gov, Senate, House) it becomes a right to work state. At the Fed. level, just having that veto in the White House prevents RTW from being a National Law.
Unfortunately, brother, too many of our own rank and file vote against their own best interests. Too many "Reagan Democrats" wore hard hats.
Look at the voting demographics for Trump. Too often our own rank and file cut their own throats.