My good friend Mark Mix, the President of the National Right to Work Committee, has an excellent NRO column today, in which he discusses the efforts by the chieftains of organized labor to elect a president and Congress that will dance to their tunes. Alas, there are plenty of Republicans who will try to appease Big Labor by voting with it on various issues.
One of the points I keep coming back to in my book on the history of the Right to Work movement (which is now in the homestretch), is that Big Labor never stops trying to augment its power by getting new legal privileges and immunities. It’s as if a restaurant found itself with dwindling numbers of customers, but instead of trying to get customers back with better food and service, the owners turned to government asking for a law that would force people to come to the restaurant.
