Okay, let's just end all this BS about a corporation being treated as an individual regarding campaign contribution:
Unless there is a vote by members of the corporation to use part of their earnings to back a political candidate, the "corporation" is NOT representing all it's members....and WORKERS ARE MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION.
Unions VOTE before they make a political endorsement.
NEITHER UNION OR CORPORATION ARE ON PAR WITH THE INDIVIDUAL U.S. CITIZEN, AS THERE ARE SEPARATE LAWS APPLYING TO EACH.
What fucking world do you live in? Union management votes before they make a political endorsement, not union membership. Do you actually believe that the NEA has a vote of all 3 million members before making decisions about how to spend money? It is not a democracy in any way, shape, or form. Neither is the SEIU with its 2 million or so members.
Maybe you and rdean could get together and see if between the two of you you can get in touch with reality.
Maybe YOU, QW, need to THINK before your fingers hit the keys..... unless you like living up to your screen name.
Pay attention: Unions ELECT their via campaigns like we have have for local and national political leadership, as opposed to corporations who's elections/appointments are NOT dependent upon ALL it's members (i.e., workers). So if the leadership does NOT act in the interest of the people they represent, then they can be voted out. That doesn't exist for corporations, now does it bunky? Shareholders may have a voice by voting with their wallets, but the workers sure as hell don't.
And neither union or corporation should be treated as an individual person, since as you and I agree, they would not be acting in unison via ALL members (management, workers, shareholders, etc.). This is why the Citizens United decision is so terribly wrong.
Hmm. How often have unions voted out their leadership?
So corporations should let their workers, who have no stake in the company vote, but unions should not let their employers vote? IN any case many big corporations have ESOPs so workers end up voting anyway.
And what does CU have to do with any of it? Why should Congress pass a law infringing on free speech, which is specifically prohibited by the Constitution?