Organized labor makes up 12 of the top 20 political donors in the last 20 years and nearly all of that money has gone to Democrats. Labor leaders have also been less than subtle in their criticisms of Republicans over the years. However, with public sector unions the target of voter outrage and the radical union agenda increasingly becoming a liability for Democrats, suddenly the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka is now talking about creating an “independent labor movement“:

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