On Monday, a large number of union critics, along with a 15-foot inflatable dinosaur, picketed the headquarters of the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC. They were protesting the “criminal practices of the labor movement.”
The protestors were from a newly formed group known as the Center for Union Facts (CUF), and it is using the dinosaur to make the point that unions are pre-historic and should be extinct. The dinosaur’s use was inspired by the large inflatable rats that unions use to embarrass companies that will not meet their demands.
The CUF announced that it has launched a multimillion dollar “educational campaign,” that includes a website that lists the salaries of union heads as well as the amount of money that unions donate to political action committees.
The website, www.unionfacts.com lists information about more than 100 labor organizations, and it enumerates unions’ unfair labor practices reported to the NLRB.
The creation of CUF is a direct response to the growing militancy not only of the AFL-CIO, but also a response to the unions that have broken away from the AFL-CIO. It is apparent that the heyday of unions is over; they have played an instrumental role in the decline of important industries. Dinosaurs indeed!
