garyro soar log: March 2018

Uline exec backs “right-to-work” and right wing causes – People's World:

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Richard Uihlein, the Illinois mega-donor executive behind the family-owned Uline packaging company — a major supplier to unions and other businesses of shipping, retail, safety, material handling and industrial supplies in Missouri, Illinois and nationwide — has contributed $500,000 to the effort to make Missouri a “right-to-work” (RTW) state.

Uihlein contributed in late February to a Kansas City-based political action committee named “Freedom to Work,” formed last year to oppose efforts to take Missouri’s phony anti-worker, anti-union RTW legislation to a vote of the people.

Uihlein has also contributed to the campaigns of three top right-wing Republicans: Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley’s bid for U.S. Senate. The two governors are notable union haters who constantly scheme to destroy workers and their unions, especially public workers.

Greitens ran on a RTW platform in winning the open Missouri gubernatorial seat in 2016 and signed the RTW bill after the heavily Republican legislature approved it. Workers and their allies collected more than 300,000 signatures – triple the number needed – to put RTW on this year’s August ballot, and, in the process, delay its implementation.