DNC Forgoes Pledge And Funds Union Busting Groups

A new report has found that the DNC is paying millions of dollars to a group that also works to help major corporations fight labor unions. The DNC pledged years ago to never do business with any group that fought unions, but that pledge apparently means nothing. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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A new report's found that the DNC's paying millions of dollars to a group that also works to help major corporations fight labor unions. The DNC pledged years ago to never do business with any group that fought unions. But the pledge, well, apparently means nothing. It's like the story that we did just the other day. What you hear about there, what you hear, we're gonna do this. It's has great appeal, doesn't it? Where Democrats come out, we're gonna stop this abuse of the labor unions. And then when you dig in, this story by Sludge, by the way, is incredible. The research they did on this is absolutely phenomenal. Pick it up.
Yeah. You've got this group, the Global Strategy Group that contracts with the DNC, pay them millions of dollars to go out there and do some advocacy here. Do some kind of research for us there. All sorts of things. Get us a little bit of legal representation. But they also are working with some of the biggest union busters in this country. I'm talking Amazon and Starbucks and even Google. And of course, the law firms that they're associated with that are by extension, getting money from the DNC as well. Just the worst of the worst that you and I have stood right here and gone after these law firms, because these are the biggest pro corporate law firms in this country.
Oh, these are the people I go to war with all the time. Covington Burling, I mean, good God. Look at the opioid crisis. Okay. When I was handling that case, it was Covington Burling on the other side of everything. The industry was killing 150 people a day. And working at Covington Burling was Eric Holder, who was the ex attorney general under the Obama administration. Who, oh, by the way, we gave everything to, said, Eric, here it is. Go prosecute somebody. Zero prosecutions. Okay. So now the DNC, they're out saying, we are the labor party, we are good for labor. And we now find out that the people they're working with are doing everything they can to undermine labor in this country. Right?
Yeah. Yeah.
Did I get that, did I overstate that?
No, absolutely not. They're paying these firms that are also the same ones that go out there and say, hey, we will teach you the management of this company, how to spy on people's social media to make sure they're not talking about unions. We'll give you the talking points to hold these big meetings where you tell 'em how evil labor unions are. That is literally right here in this report. And that is who the DNC is contracting with. We are working with these people who are actively, once again, going against our interest and our stated goals and our pledge. We said we'd never do it, but we're doing it.
Okay. If I look down this list of who's who of these corporations, of these law firms that are secretly in the dark, behind closed doors working to undermine labor. Out front, you have, at least we know, look, we know where the Republicans stand, right?
Yeah.
We know they're never gonna help labor. But here you got Democrats, blue dog Democrats, Wall Street Democrats out there with the audacity to say, you know, we're all for you. Let's sing Kumbaya together. And then Sludge finds out, no, that's completely nonsense. They talk about Global Strategy Group. The Global Strategy Group the DNC's put huge money behind, they are one of the worst. Covington Burling's another one. These firms are people that we see on the other side of our table all the time, because they're always working for corporations. And oh, by the way.