QUOTABLE QUOTE
"Labor groups are required to report any direct or indirect expense
'intended to influence the selection, nomination, election or appointment
of anyone to a federal, state or local public office.' If
the tax-exempt unions did not report taxable political expenses, they can
be hit with audits, back taxes and fines.
No one in Washington is surprised by the unions' deception. Behind knowing winks and nudges, policy-makers have let unions ignore the rules for years. Even worse, Washington has created rules that benefit unions-to the disadvantage of most other groups. Indeed, organized labor has been the recipient of special privileges granted by federal law for much of the last century... Despite all these advantages, unions are still losing members...
It's obvious that unions have less and less to offer--except forced dues to back a big-government agenda, even as many of their members oppose it. Federal officials might look the other way when bosses break the rules. But workers have seen what's been going on."
- "Labor's Tilted Playing Field," Investor's Bus. Daily, Aug. 8, 2001, at A20.
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