The Right to Organize

is what keeps the leftist machine chugging along. More exactly, the union infrastructure is a machanism-in-place for rallying the troops, putting faces in cameras and noises in microphones for which there is no corresponding equivalent for citizens of centrist, libertarian, or conservative viewpoints.

Today's example: On Monday of this week the Labor Committee for Peace & Justice sent emails to their political operatives at union job sites, particularly public employee union shops, all over the Bay Area. The message was to show up for "Mass Protest Against Bush War Criminal" on Friday. The operatives in turn forwarded the emails to all the union members they could reach by email. Every SEIU member (for example) in the Bay Area who worked at a computer got the email that same day. If there were union members on site who didn't work at a computer, the ones who did were supposed to pass the word. Very efficient, and from the time the email got to a member of a public employee union, paid for 100% by the taxpayers of the State of California. That ca.gov network forwards email quite well. The printers in those government offices cranked out hundreds (thousands?) of copies of fliers, and all that paper and toner came from the taxpayers.