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| Resistance fighters in the War on Workers. |
The Center for Media and Democracy explains:
The fight to dismantle America's unions has moved from Wisconsin to California. This time, billionaires and big business are attempting to use California's referendum mechanism to bar all unions from using money deducted from employee paychecks for political purposes...
...with some $43 million being spent by unions, and election day still four weeks away, the current life and death battle for the right to organize a union may dwarf all that came before...
...While the language is made to sound evenhanded, the measure is a thinly veiled attack on the only institution that systematically collects its funding via payroll deduction -- unions. You can ban churches and liquor stores from collecting contributions in little baskets, but when only one entity does it, only one entity is going to be wiped out.The California Labor Fed exposes the big money (pretending to represent small business) behind Prop. 32:
...the deceptively named “Stop Special Interest Money” Act is now being funded by an equally deceptively named front group, the Small Business Action Committee (SBAC), which has dropped millions into Prop 32, the ballot measure that leading newspapers call “a fraud,” “a cynical ploy” and “a deceptive sham” because it would silence the voices of workers while giving corporate special interests even more power and influence.Here's how much some of the "small businesspeople" gave to SBAC:
- $19,949,560 from Charles Munger Jr., who’s given millions to the state and county Republican parties, and also bankrolls a California Super PAC called “Spirit of Democracy.” Munger has spent more than $22 million on California elections in recent years, and would still be able to do so if Prop 32 passes.
- $550,000 from retired Univision CEO Jerrold Perenchio, another one of the largest individual donors in California politics. He’s also the Founder and Chair of Chatwell Partners LLC, an investment firm that would be exempt from Proposition 32.
- $350,000 from the New Majority PAC, which would in itself be exempt, and its contributors, which include real estate developers, hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, wealthy individuals and other major contributors, would also be exempt under Prop 32
- $300,000 from private equity manager John Murray Pasquesi, whose Otter Capital LLC would be exempt under Prop 32
- $1,000,000 from hedge fund executive William Oberndorf, who has given almost a million to the California Republican Party in recent years. He’s also the head of two large companies that are exempt from Proposition 32.
