Union leaders of the AFL-CIO have agreed to spend $40-million for the mid-term elections. That is the most money that the union has ever spend to influence the outcome of an election. The union would like to wrest control from the pro-management Republican legislators who currently control both houses of the legislature. They hope to elect Democrats to fifteen Senate seats, forty house seats, and governorships in California, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
In the 2002 midterm elections, the AFL-CIO spent $35-million. This is an extraordinary increase when one considers that the union has cut its budget by 25% as a result of four militant unions breaking away from the AFL-CIO last year.
John Sweeney, head of the AFL-CIO, has called President Bush the most anti-worker president in our history.
It is essential that management groups organize to meet this challenge and communicate to voters the benefits that Corporate America provides for the vast majority of citizens.
