Big Labor’s campaign cash is tainted

Published September 20, 2019 4:00am ET



This could be the first presidential election in recent memory where Democratic candidates don’t covet cash from Big Labor.

That statement might seem strange. After all, unions have sent over $1.6 billion to the Left since 2010, and there’s no telling what they’ll be willing to spend to reinstate their influence at the White House in 2020. But this time, labor’s liabilities — corruption, sexual harassment, and poor employment practices, to name a few — have hurt its standing in the court of public opinion.

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