AFSCME Adds “Mean Girl” to Bully Reputation

I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking the moral authority rests with the United Negro College Fund on this one:

A powerful government workers’ union will end its support for the United Negro College Fund after the group accepted $25 million from the conservative powerhouse Koch brothers and the college fund’s president appeared at a Koch event.

In a letter made public Thursday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said it will no longer partner with or raise funds for the fund, known for its iconic motto, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

It couldn’t be clearer that the main purpose of government-sector unions is advocacy for progressive politics.  Labor services are just the way they raise money and gain power.

How many young black men and women will have their lives changed for the better by an unanticipated $25 million toward their education?  Apparently, it doesn’t matter when it comes to AFSCME’s ideological, partisan activism.  As Glenn Reynolds puts it, “The sooner [the public-sector union organizers are] all out on the streets selling pencils, the better for America.”

I wonder, by the way, if any of the local media in union-heavy and union-interested Rhode Island will carry this particular Associated Press story.  I note that it’s not in today’s Providence Journal (and doesn’t turn up in a search of the last 15 issues).  Of course, like AFSCME, the Providence Newspaper Guild is part of the AFL-CIO, so it may be unlikely that its members will think this is news fit to print, despite a proven interest in the activities of the Koch brothers… even where simply assumed.

(Here’s AFSCME president Lee Saunders’s letter.)

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