Why The Biden Admin’s Plan To Unionize The National Guard Is A Horrible Idea

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Why The Biden Admin’s Plan To Unionize The National Guard Is A Horrible Idea
By: Chuck DeVore
February 22, 2022

America determined decades ago that unionizing the military was a terrible idea. Yet last month, the Biden administration’s Justice Department signaled in a court filing that National Guard troops on state active duty can organize as if they’re civilian first responders or civil servants, and members of the National Guard in Texas are now using the DOJ’s position as justification to start unionizing.

The filing arose from a case in Connecticut where the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), one of the largest unions in the United States with 1.6 million members, sued to demand that Connecticut National Guard members on state active duty had the right to unionize during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Without the governor deploying the National Guard as a public health stopgap, AFSCME might have had more leverage to demand higher pay and more positions. The National Guard undercut their negotiating power.

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https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/22/why-the-biden-admins-plan-to-unionize-the-national-guard-is-a-horrible-idea/

[Kamaji]

What an epic disaster in the making.

[Fishrrman]

As any "union" endorsed by the democrat-communists itself would tilt towards communism, this is a backdoor attempt to impose a political shift upon the state National Guards -- even in [what are still the so-called] "conservative" states.

I would encourage the state governments to oppose such a move. As in, vigorously oppose it.
Otherwise, the red states are going to lose whatever state/local control they retain over their own Guard units.