Will More Tax Dollars Go to Unions?

Will More Tax Dollars Go to Unions?

On the heels of last week’s $26 billion spending bill, of which much is going to public sector unions, a new union bailout bill may be gaining traction for discussion this fall.

In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, we discovered why some lawmakers would put taxpayers on the hook for union retirement pensions:

“We wrote in June about this class of some 1,500 union-run retirement vehicles, in which companies across an entire industry pay into a single pension pool. Hundreds of these multi-employer pools are badly underfunded, thanks to years of labor funneling money into new pay...