Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Audiobook9 hours
Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics
Written by Linda Chavez and Daniel Gray
Narrated by Theresa Long
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
"Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we're all paying the price."
Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush's original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America's labor unions. Now, in the explosive new book Betrayal, she and fellow union expert Daniel Gray expose the corrupt bargain between the labor movement and the Democratic Party.
Committed to a far-left political agenda-and to enhancing their own power-union bosses funnel at least half a billion dollars into Democratic coffers every year. And they do it, illegally, by using dues money that workers are forced to pay as a condition of their employment-dues money that each year brings the unions $17 billion, all of it tax-free.
What do labor bosses get in return? The power to call the shots in Democratic campaigns and on party policy, extraordinary influence at all levels of government, billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded federal grants, and special legal privileges that leave them free to act as they please, no matter the consequences for the American people. The cycle of corruption is seemingly endless.
Chavez and Gray name names, exposing the many politicians who are in Big Labor's pocket-including the leading lights of the Democratic Party. Betrayal also reveals:
• Big Labor's all-out efforts in the 2004 election, including how just one local union has launched a $35-million campaign to unseat President Bush
• How corrupt union officials use members' hard-earned money to fund lavish lifestyles-and how their Democratic supporters let them get away with it
• How unions flout the law by failing to report any of their political spending to the IRS
• How a government report uncovered the Democrats' sellout to Big Labor-but how the unions and the Democrats sued to keep the report from going public
• How the U.S. government lets unions practice legalized terrorism against American citizens
• How public-employee unions extort concessions from the government and put Americans at risk by refusing to provide vital services like policing and firefighting
• How Americans now live under a system of legal apartheid-one set of rules for labor bosses, another for the rest of us
All of us foot the bill for this corrupt system. Now it's up to us to do something about it.
From the Hardcover edition.
Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush's original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America's labor unions. Now, in the explosive new book Betrayal, she and fellow union expert Daniel Gray expose the corrupt bargain between the labor movement and the Democratic Party.
Committed to a far-left political agenda-and to enhancing their own power-union bosses funnel at least half a billion dollars into Democratic coffers every year. And they do it, illegally, by using dues money that workers are forced to pay as a condition of their employment-dues money that each year brings the unions $17 billion, all of it tax-free.
What do labor bosses get in return? The power to call the shots in Democratic campaigns and on party policy, extraordinary influence at all levels of government, billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded federal grants, and special legal privileges that leave them free to act as they please, no matter the consequences for the American people. The cycle of corruption is seemingly endless.
Chavez and Gray name names, exposing the many politicians who are in Big Labor's pocket-including the leading lights of the Democratic Party. Betrayal also reveals:
• Big Labor's all-out efforts in the 2004 election, including how just one local union has launched a $35-million campaign to unseat President Bush
• How corrupt union officials use members' hard-earned money to fund lavish lifestyles-and how their Democratic supporters let them get away with it
• How unions flout the law by failing to report any of their political spending to the IRS
• How a government report uncovered the Democrats' sellout to Big Labor-but how the unions and the Democrats sued to keep the report from going public
• How the U.S. government lets unions practice legalized terrorism against American citizens
• How public-employee unions extort concessions from the government and put Americans at risk by refusing to provide vital services like policing and firefighting
• How Americans now live under a system of legal apartheid-one set of rules for labor bosses, another for the rest of us
All of us foot the bill for this corrupt system. Now it's up to us to do something about it.
From the Hardcover edition.
Unavailable
Related to Betrayal
Related audiobooks
States of Neglect: How Red-State Leaders Have Failed Their Citizens and Undermined America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Politics: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Principles Matter: The Constitution, Progressives, and the Trump Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Centrist Solution: How We Made Government Work and Can Make It Work Again Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPolitics at Work: How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGROWING UP REPUBLICAN Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDemocracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Point of No Return: American Democracy at the Crossroads Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCampaigns, Elections, and the Threat to Democracy: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2nd Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrackup: The Republican Implosion and the Future of Presidential Politics Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Democrat Party Hates America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote—and How to Get It Back Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass Behavior Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Political Ideologies For You
The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Democrat Party Hates America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fascism: A Warning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Capitalist Punishment: How Wall Street Is Using Your Money to Create a Country You Didn't Vote For Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Marxism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why We're Polarized Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marriage Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Communist Manifesto (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Emergent Strategy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Betrayal
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews