ICYMI: A Fox In the Union House
Sue Altman claims that labor is the backbone of her campaign, but facts are getting in the way.
So far, Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has received the following labor endorsements:
- NJ State Building and Construction Trades
- International Union of Operating Engineers 825
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 102
- NJ State Police Benevolent Association
- Professional Firefighters of NJ
- National Association of Police Organizations
- New Jersey Firefighters Benevolent Association
Additionally, of note is the lack of endorsement from AFL-CIO for Sue Altman.
However, perhaps the recent news is the most damning so far. Per a report byPolitico Influence, Sue Altman is employing a union-busting firm.
So far this election cycle, Altman paid $53,000 to GSG, a firm that “Amazon had used GSG to beat back a unionization push.”
“The controversy sparked by the firm’s work led former GSG clients American Federation of Teachers and the Service Employees International Unionto publicly criticize GSG, although they weren’t clients at the time. AFT, whose president Randi Weingarten called the Amazon work “really really disgusting,” had spent $160,000 in polling and consulting work with GSG. A spokesperson for the national office of the SEIU, which had spent almost $2 million on the firm over a number of years, said then that it wouldn’t hire GSG in the future.”
So now the question is: Will Sue Altman continue to talk out of both sides of her mouth regarding Labor? Only time will tell…