Unions Want UN Affiliate to Decide US Labor Policy
According to Human Events:
Organized labor won last November’s election lottery. The unions officially spent $105 million and, in return, received a promise from the new Democratic majority to push labor’s redistributionist economic agenda. They are desperate to convince politicians to give them what they cannot win in the marketplace.
The impact on domestic public policy is clear. Already the House approved a minimum-wage hike as part of its “first 100 hours” program and voted to ease union organizing.
But unions in the United States are also pressing their case internationally. They no longer think that improving working conditions is purely a domestic issue. Instead, they are trying to circumvent U.S. labor policies and labor law. Most notably the AFL-CIO is bent on convincing the International Labor Organization (ILO), a United Nations-affiliated body headquartered in Geneva, to support its agenda. For some union activists, the U.S. is little more than a tin-pot dictatorship that requires international oversight by UN bureaucrats...click to continue.
