On the yahoo.com front page there was this title: “We need to pass the National Right-to-Work Act. No one should be forced to join a union.”
It leads to a USAtoday article by Mark Mix. A quick google shows that he is a right wing operative who has been trying to destroy unions for decades.
The article identifies Mark Mix as the president of The National Right To Work Committee. The NRTWC claims to be a “non-partisan single purpose organization,” but 100% of its political contributions have gone to Republicans. They get money from the Koch brothers, ALEC, the Caito Institute, Americans for the Prosperity of Already Prosperous White Americans (that name might not be quite accurate), the State Policy Network and the Republican National Committee. They spearheaded the lawsuit Quinn vs Harris which got to the Supreme Court (2014) and on a 5-4 vote (of course) struck the first blow in nationalizing the right-to-work-for-less-or-not-at-all ideology. Besides funding several state right-to-work-for-less-or-not-at-all initives they also gave Todd Akin $7 million in his (losing) senate campaign against Claire McCaskill in 2012.
Mix is also president of the National Right To Work Legal Defense Fund. They get money from the Kock brothers, the Bradley Foundation, the Walton family, The Searles family, the Coors family, and other right wing front groups. They have supplied lawyers for most of the union busting lawsuits, most notably the Janus vs AFSCME case that got to the Supreme Court (2018) and on a 5-4 vote (of course) stripped unions of the right to collect dues from the workers they represent strengthening the case for national right-to-work-for-less-or-not-at-all.
Combined the “National Right To Work” groups have spent tens of millions of dollars over more than a decade to undermine workers (wisconsin, illinois, indiana, michigan, colorado, pennsylvania, etc), and are scoring more and more successes.
A quick google shows that Mix also wrote a Wall Street Journal article in 2008 titled “Labor Unions Prolonged The Great Depression.”
And that he was a guest host on The Conservative Roundtable — a TV show where right wingers spread their gospel to other right wingers and ignorant people who think they want to become right wingers.
The Roundtable started in 1991. The main topics are the evils of Clinton, the evils of healthcare, the evils of abortion, the evils of government, the evils of immigration, the evils of unions, and so on.
So in this little trek down the rabbit hole, starting with one article on yahoo.com, I have come across:
The National Right To Work Committee
The National Right To Work Legal Defense Fund
American Legislative Exchange Council
Caito institute
Freedom Partners (Koch)
Charles G Koch Foundation
Donors Trust (Koch)
Donors Capital Fund (Koch)
American Encore (Koch)
Americans For Prosperity (Koch)
State Policy Network (64 think tanks)
American Conservative Union
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation
Galbraith Foundation
John M Olin Foundation
Independence Institute
Mackinac Center For Public Policy
Looks like a vast right wing conspiracy to me.
Yahoo.com article (via USAtoday) “We Need To Pass The National Right To Work Act.”
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Wall Street Article “Labor Unions Prolonged the Depression” (2008)
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Source Watch has info on the groups
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Info on The Conservative Roundtable Tv show.
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Mark Mix’s national right to work episode was October 1995, so he has been in the trenches, backed by tens of millions of dollars, for more than 23 years.
Also, about Hillary’s “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” claim, here is the subject matter of some roundtable episodes:
April 1993 — Willie Horton and Clinton scandals
February 1994 — Whitewater
April 1994 — Whitewatergate
August 1994 — Whitewater
November 1994 — Restoring constitutional government
(government is constitutional only if a republican is president)
August 1995 — Did government plan the Oklahoma City bombing?
September 1995 — a new Clinton scandle emerges
December 1995 — Vince Foster and other Whitewater deaths
July 1997 — Who killed Vince Foster?
July 1997 — How the liberal media protects Clinton and how to fight back
August 1997 — Chinagate and who killed Ron Brown?
September 1997 — The government takeover of medical care
November 1997 — The continuing criminal enterprise in the White House
November 1997 — The Strange Death Of Vincent Foster
IMDB says the show is still running, but I don’t have the energy to track down what they said about Clinton during the 2016 election. I am sure most of it was in the headlines anyway.