{"id":1329,"date":"2002-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"union-endorsements-of-jeb-bush-s-opponent-further-show-white-house-appeasement-of-union-officials-has-backfired","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/union-endorsements-of-jeb-bush-s-opponent-further-show-white-house-appeasement-of-union-officials-has-backfired\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Endorsements of Jeb Bush\u2019s Opponent Further Show White House Appeasement of Union Officials Has Backfired"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tallahassee, Fla. (October 22, 2002)<\/b> \u2013 In another stinging rejection of the Bush administration\u2019s strategy to cozy up to the union hierarchy, the Florida Education Association (FEA) union has admitted that it has mortgaged its state headquarters building to raise more than $1.5 million to finance the defeat President George W. Bush\u2019s brother in Florida\u2019s gubernatorial election. As revealed this week in an investigative report by National Review Online, \u201c$1.7 million in equity the FEA sucked out of its South Adams Street building\u201d was earmarked nearly two years ago for the explicit purpose of pummeling Jeb Bush in order to embarrass President Bush, even though many rank-and-file teachers support the Bush brothers. \u201cThe union hierarchy is going all out to defeat Governor Jeb Bush and humiliate the president,\u201d said Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cThis is the gratitude the White House has been given for bending over backwards for union officials over the past 18 months.\u201d The teacher union\u2019s actions \u2013 taken despite the Bush administration having given the union hierarchy and Senator Ted Kennedy virtually everything they demanded in the budget-busting education bill \u2013 are the latest sign that the White House\u2019s strategy to court top union officials has backfired. The administration\u2019s core policy concessions have not blunted ongoing attacks by union officials on Bush or other Republicans \u2013 but have begun to alienate the president\u2019s natural base. For example, over past eighteen months, the White House political office has: 1) given Teamsters and Carpenters officials significant influence over selection of nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB); 2) encouraged Congress not to hold hearings on legislation that would be embarrassing to union officials, such as legislation to end compulsory unionism; 3) filed arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing review of a NLRB decision that gutted employee rights not to pay forced union dues spent to support objectionable union activities; 4) inserted a discriminatory union-only project labor agreement in the Alaska energy legislation; and 5) signaled its intention to release the corrupt Teamsters union from federal oversight. Despite these concessions, union officials continue to put their political money and muscle behind liberal Democrats. For example, based on an analysis of PAC giving in tight Senate and House races, over 95 percent of Big Labor\u2019s contributions \u2013 including those made by the Carpenters and Teamsters union PACs \u2013 still go to Democrats. Meanwhile, despite the White House\u2019s appeasement of the Teamsters union hierarchy, the union just endorsed Bill McBride, Jeb Bush\u2019s opponent in the Florida gubernatorial election. \u201cBy pursuing this appeasement strategy, the White House has been alienating its Right to Work base, and, even if it were worth it, they\u2019ve gotten nothing in return,\u201d stated Gleason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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