For all the talk from Democratic politicians about “threats to democracy,” not nearly enough attention is being paid to the public sector unions that the party panders to fighting against democracy in California.
Last week, voters in San Francisco passed Proposition F, which requires drug screening and treatment for certain recipients of cash welfare. This passed by a 58.5% to 41.5% margin, with more than 120,000 residents voting in favor. It is a reasonable policy that was voted on and approved directly by San Francisco voters.
A union wants to undo that. The Service Employees International Union Local 1021 is pushing the California Public Employment Relations Board to void Proposition F because it “could put workers who interact with welfare recipients at risk.” The union represents city employees at the Human Services Agency, and evidently, it wants the will of the voters tossed out because angry drug addicts on welfare might become violent and will thus make the policy change an “unfair practice.”
This is not the first time labor unions in California have tried to throw their weight around to void the will of the people. California Democrats gave unions a gift by destroying freelancing in the state, trying to funnel freelancers and gig workers into unions as a result. When Uber and Lyft won an exemption with a statewide vote on Proposition 22, the SEIU sued and temporarily succeeded in getting the exemption, which voters supported, thrown out.
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There are other, less direct examples of unions flexing their influence at the expense of voters. Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) campaigned on supporting school choice, only to betray voters and GOP politicians by abandoning that promise and towing the teachers union line. Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) abused his power to try and give teachers unions an education spending increase that lasts over 400 years. Combine that with labor unions in California explicitly trying to have the will of voters thrown out by the courts, and you can see that unions are as big of a threat to democracy as anything else Democrats and the liberal media are talking about.
Labor unions and the vise grip they have on the Democratic Party are a threat to the will of voters, even when voters get a chance to vote directly on the issues. Democrats should spare everyone the lectures about how voter ID laws or other benign policies are “threats to democracy” until they clean their own house from the rotten influence that unions have.