“ As long as anti-worker corporations, billionaires and Super PACs are allowed to pour unlimited funds into elections, we must do our part to counter their efforts on behalf of working Americans.

Unions will never be able to match them dollar-for-dollar, but combined with our strength in numbers and boots on the ground, we can fight back and win. We can’t allow the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelsons of the world to advance their anti-worker agenda through their unlimited funds, or we see the middle class quickly disappear.

Workers have a right to have a collective voice in the political process, to join together to help elect politicians who will support legislation to protect workers, their pensions, their health care and their collective bargaining rights. ”

“ One of America’s great examples is that people are free to engage in politics or to ignore it. We can give or choose not to. We can vote (and more need too) or choose not to. Our national values rest upon this choice.

No one in America should be forced to support political parties or campaigns.

Last time I checked, involuntary support for political causes was a practice in dead or dying regimes of the past, like the USSR and East Germany and we hope soon in places like Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Iran.

The sad fact is fat cat big labor bosses, after taking massive salaries, big vacations and exclusive resort ownerships, then skim a bunch of dollars off the table of workers and flush them down the political campaign hole.

For what?

Workers deserve to have their dues – especially when they are mandatorily taken from them by force –respected and treated in a manner that honors their contract. The union bosses have not done this.

They engage in political campaigns to feather their own personal nests. This is disrespectful of American workers.

The past two decades have taught us American unions need a revolution within themselves to reset their agenda, their leadership and to force them to respect their membership and truly honor the worker and entrepreneur.

The current cartel of labor bosses does not get it. They will only get nastier, angrier, and more out of control until they are ousted or reformed by their own members. ”