Working Class Voters Should Demand A Refund

Fifty-five percent pulled the lever for Republicans in the 2022 midterms. They aren't getting their money's worth from the House Education and the Workforce committee.

This just in from my pen pal Stanley Greer, senior research associate for the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, which is a unit of the National Right to Work Committee:

Don’t think you are even remotely interested in trying to understand the law, but I feel compelled to explain the Steele case to you, very briefly.  Mark Mix alluded to it in his testimony, and you completely butchered it.

In the Steele case, union bosses WANTED to “represent” black employees so they could use that exclusive representation power to drive them out of desirable jobs.

The USSC said “exclusive” union bargaining gives union bosses quasi-governmental power, so union bosses could not use that power in a way that denies black employees their due process rights on the basis of their race.

The USSC has never said, however, that union bosses cannot use their “exclusive” representation power to help some employees and hurt others,  as long as the discrimination isn’t on the basis of race are some other constitutionally protected human attribute.

That’s what Mark said, and I don’t think it was at all hard to understand, if you’re not a moron, or if you earn your living pretending to be even more stupid than you are.

Stan Greer

I hadn’t yet found time to answer Greer’s last email, which was something about people earning more than $200,000 moving into red states, when he hit me with this one. As you can see, as the pace quickens the tone grows ever more abusive and the thought of my replying ever less appealing.

For the record, it does seem as though Greer caught me misunderstanding the description by Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee, of Steele v. Louisville & N.R. Co, at a Thursday hearing that I wrote up in my latest New Republic piece. As I said in the piece, Mix didn’t make himself very clear. Unfortunately, Greer doesn’t make himself very clear either. I do want to understand the Steele case, but I would prefer the explanation come from somebody, liberal or conservative, who doesn’t lace his explanation with so much anti-labor agitprop and personal name-calling that I literally can’t follow what he’s saying. If such a person is out there among my readers, please comment below. Meanwhile, please read my latest New Republic piece, about House Republicans showing working class voters exactly what they get for voting Republican in the last election, a bait and switch that Greer doesn’t bother to dispute.