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Anti-Union Rep Admits His Group Opposes Majority Rule

by Tula Connell, Mar 11, 2010

The vice president for one of the nation’s most anti-union, anti-worker organizations showed what we knew all along: Those fighting workers and their unions oppose the democratic process.

During a hearing yesterday on a House bill to expand bargaining rights for the police and firefighters, Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill.) exposed the myths and lies spun by the Big Brother-named National Right to Work Committee.

Doug Stafford, the group’s vice president, attempted to portray the bill as forcing “monopoly bargaining on every police and firefighter.”

Hare, a former president of and steward for his union, would have none of it.

The bill provides unions only will be established in places where a majority of officers and firefighters choose to form one, is that correct?

Stafford:

I believe that’s true, however….

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