| Leading Union Political Campaign Contributors | |||
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| Democrats | Republicans |
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| American Fed. of State, County, & Municipal Employees | $40,281,900 | $547,700 |
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| Intel Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | 29,705,600 | 679,000 |
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| National Education Association | 27,679,300 | 2,005,200 |
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| Service Employees International Union | 26,368,470 | 98,700 |
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| Communication Workers of America | 26,305,500 | 125,300 |
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| Service Employees International Union | 26,252,000 | 1,086,200 |
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| Laborers Union | 25,734,000 | 138,000 |
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| American Federation of Teachers | 25,682,800 | 200,000 |
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| United Auto Workers | 25,082,200 | 182,700 |
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| Teamsters Union | 24,926,400 | 1,822,000 |
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| Carpenters and Joiners Union | 24,094,100 | 658,000 |
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| Machinists & Aerospace Workers Union | 23,875,600 | 226,300 |
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| United Food and Commercial Workers Union | 23,182,000 | 334,200 |
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| AFL-CIO | 17,124,300 | 713,500 |
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| Sheet Metal Workers Union | 16,347,200 | 342,800 |
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| Plumbers & Pipefitters Union | 14,790,000 | 818,500 |
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| Operating Engineers Union | 13,840,000 | 2,309,500 |
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| Airline Pilots Association | 12,806,600 | 2,398,300 |
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| International Association of Firefighters | 12,421,700 | 2,685,400 |
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| United Transportation Workers | 11,807,000 | 1,459,300 |
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| Ironworkers Union | 11,638,900 | 936,000 |
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| American Postal Workers Union | 11,633,100 | 544,300 |
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| Nat'l Active & Retired Fed. Employees Association | 8,135,400 | 2,294,600 |
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| Seafarers International Union | 6,726,800 | 1,281,300 |
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| Source: Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, D.C. | |||
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Chart of the Day: Union Contributions To Political Parties
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7 comments:
Why not list corporate contributions - are the CEOs > workers always? Pick up a history book - you might want to thank the labor movement next time you have a WEEKEND.
Anonymous,
Did you write this on your sixth 40 minute coffee break of the day per your AFSCME union contract?
:Holger Danske
When I got in from an 11 hour work day. Look back at working conditions before organized labor- unions exist for a reason. Sometimes collective bargaining is needed to keep working people from getting completely screwed by their employers. I'm not a union member myself but my father was.
Anonymous,
There was a time in this country when the laborers were completely at the mercy of only a handful of employers but THAT WAS OVER A CENTURY AGO! Look at America today and at the myriad of places to find employment. Unions transitioned from a safety net for workers to a ransom-directed network.
Let's look at the Teachers Unions, shall we? You said that union members need the union so they don't get screwed by the employers. So who is the "employer" of teachers? Right. The public is...you and me are. We entrust our children to teachers up to eight hours a day and you're gonna tell me that, we as employers, are out to screw teachers?
Look at the UAW worker who was making $38 an hour five years ago for pressing buttons on a robotic arm on a production line and tell me who was screwing who. I bought an American made vehicle two years ago that was $12,000 more than the same vehicle three years prior to that...tell me who got screwed in that deal.
:Holger Danske
Anonymous2 says:
I used to administer a contractor's office, wherein I'd disburse funds to union and non-union workers. The union workers did next to nothing and got paid 5 times more than the non-unionist, especially if he was in the union for long. Besides making so much more, doing so much less, and bringing in their "cousins" where and when they could, they were the first to complain if anything small deviated from their "by-laws". Thank goodness these parasitic system is starting to teeter. May it fall hard and fast. We all stand to gain.
Money laundering for Democratic electees must stop or America is dead; As it is, with the Islamic invasion taking effect under our noses, that has no respect for America's Constitution, it looks to be dying anyways. These two cancers, however, leftists (including unions, of course, and Islamists) can work synergistically and kill her quicker - to our misfortune.
These comments miss the point. The issue is not unions v. non-unions (although that is a legitimate issue). It is the difference between public-employee unions and those in the private sector. Public-employee unions are essentially negotiating with the legislature (and by extension, the voters) who almost invariably have a conflict of interest in that they are supported, financially and politically, by the very unions with which they negotiate. The unions reward the legislators with campaign support and the legislators return to favor to the unions in a never-ending spiral. Also critical to the argument is that, unlike employers in the private sector, the government negotiators are not playing with their own money and they have no greater time horizon that the next election. Even FDR and George Meany saw the inappropriateness of unionized employees in public service.
The Unions did NOT bring about the "weekend", contrary to their often repeated lie to that effect.
The Unions DID however create the FIVE year car note!
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