Work is the Lords Effort, Not the Unions
by Stephen Frank
One reason you want to be assured your representative in Sacramento is a person of faith, is because every bill is based on the words of the Bible—either supporting the Word, or opposing the Word. As I like to say, every dollar of taxation is a dollar less of freedom. Discuss education in a bill with a Progressive, and they do not believe your child is a child of God, but a child of the State. They believe government has the right to teach them immorality (so they understand the world around them). “Educrats”, as I call them, believe it is okay to teach a Progressive history—radical ideology—rather than real history.
This is the collectivist theory of government. That we all belong to the State. In this view you, your family, and your community must respond to the commands of politicians, not your values, principles and faith.
In contrast, Proverbs 90:17 says, May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us, establish the work of our hands for us—yes, establish the work of our hands.
That means it is the Lord, not the government or a union that controls our work. Work is a Biblical value. Not of others in control of you, but you using your Biblical values doing the work of your choice—answering to your employer, your faith and yourself.
Yet, in California we have a law, AB 5, written by the unions that takes away your freedom of choice. On Sunday you have the right to attend the church of your choice. AB 5 says that on Monday, you must pay blackmail to a union if you want to work. It takes away your right to work a few hours a week, of your choosing, to be a journalist, truck driver, rideshare driver, healthcare worker.
It is theft to tell a worker they cannot work unless they pay tribute to a union or third party.
Who are these unions? Those who are forced to pay dues to them may not be aware a large portion of their funds go to candidates for office and ballot measures. Unions were a major donor to the opposition to Prop. 8, the effort to keep marriage between one man and one woman. They have spent hundreds of millions on candidates that support the creation of dozens of genders, higher taxes, and open borders. In fact, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has a whole office promoting the unionization of illegal aliens.
The money to pay for this? It comes from the dues of the workers—even those workers that oppose the policies promoted by the unions. Unions are major supporters of Planned Parenthood and candidates that believe in unlimited abortions. There is no way for a worker, if they are in a union NOT to support abortion—even a person of Faith.
“Thou shall not steal” is the eighth of the Ten Commandants. Nevertheless, this Commandment has come to be interpreted, especially in non-Jewish traditions, as the unauthorized taking of private property (stealing or theft), which is a wrongful action already prohibited elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible that does not ordinarily incur the death penalty.
Isn’t the taking of wages without permission or by extortion (either you pay the dues or you do not work) theft? Worse, the money taken is then used against worker’s faith, values and principles.
There are many policy reasons to oppose AB 5. For those of faith, it is a law that steals freedom, and free choice; a law based on theft. At some point, we need to speak up against such law.
To be clear, I am a supporter of the right of workers to freely join a union. Free association. I am opposed to enslaving workers to a union. How many good teachers have been forced to leave the classroom to hold a picket sign, while the children are forced to stay home and watch cartoons or get into trouble? A teacher is forced to strike, or the union will bully them out of the profession.
The purpose of this article is to show that every piece of legislation is based on Biblical values or the opposition to Biblical values. When you vote, think about the candidates. Do they promote the values of faith or do they tear them down? Free choice is a Biblical value, and our vote is an extension of that principle.
Stephen Frank is Senior Contributing Editor of California Political Review. Read California news that is incisive, hard-hitting, and solution-oriented with a free subscription to Steve’s daily emails at http://eepurl.com/UAspv
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