Big Tech censors are back, ensuring that workers want unions, and other commentary

Florida is proactively working to “hold government employee unions accountable,” notes Aaron Withe at The Hill, by forcing them to demonstrate “support from an absolute majority of the people it claims to speak for.” A 2023 law demands “recertification elections” when unions “fail to maintain the support of 60 percent of their dues-paying membership.” Saying “they didn’t bother to vote against us” cannot be a “sufficient basis” to hold exclusive bargaining power.” Yet Oregon is “doing the exact opposite,” permitting government unions to sue groups “that contact public employees about their rights to opt out of unions.” Advocates claim this is meant to curb groups from fraudulently “impersonating a union representative,” yet they’ve never cited “a single documented case of a worker being genuinely defrauded.” The bill, which “would make it easier to avoid a death penalty for Jewish defendants than Arab defendants,” seems “designed to be scrapped by the high court.” The real purpose of the bill is “to derail hostage deals.” Historically, “controversial swaps” of hundreds or thousands of Palestinian inmates for a few Israeli hostages “have long been understood to incentivize future hostage taking.” Because of these deals, “bloodstained terrorists” know “they will never serve out their sentences,” and so “murder convictions only temporarily remove someone from the battlefield.” “The result is a shrunken military industrial base that has been exposed by the wars in Iran and Ukraine.” Fortunately, President Trump aims “to boost defense spending to $1.5 trillion.” Doing so would increase it “to 4.5%” of GDP, “which is close to the 5% goal that the President has set for NATO members.” The proposal “aims to expand the military industrial base” to ensure we’re not short of ships, “munitions or manpower.” For all the naysaying about increasing the deficit, “investing in military deterrence is also far cheaper than having to fight a war against China.” “The President’s budget shows a welcome new realism about the multiplying threats America faces.”

Author: Post Editorial Board

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