For some time now, the left has been whipping up a boycott campaign against its favorite bogeymen, David and Charles Koch, billionaire owners of Georgia Pacific.
As the lefties see it, the Koch brothers fund conservative organizations and politicians, like the Tea Party — which means, according to Common Cause, that they are “moving democracy into the control of more wealthy corporate hands.”
(Common Cause, it should be noted, is itself heavily funded by corporate types, including the Kochs’ left-wing counterpart, George Soros.)
But now, a top official of the United Steelworkers union, International Vice President Jon Geenen, has discovered an inconvenient truth about the whole boycott campaign.
Seems the Kochs run one of the most heavily unionized operations in the country, providing some of “the best-paid manufacturing jobs in America.”
Which means that any negative impact said boycott might have on Georgia Pacific (which makes consumer goods like facial tissue, napkins, paper towels, etc.) could “make union workers collateral damage” and “the first casualties of a boycott.”
Oops.
Indeed, notes Geenen on the union’s Web site, 80% of GP’s mills are under contract with one or more labor unions.
Moreover, he adds, “while some companies are running from investment in American jobs,” Georgia Pacific “just reached agreements with its primary union . . . to invest more than half a billion dollars in capital . . . at two separate [US] union mills.”
Michael Moore sure doesn’t treat his employees that well.
All of which underscores that this boycott isn’t aimed at preventing “wealthy, corporate” types from political involvement, but only at repressing those whose political philosophy supports lower taxes and less government.
Hypocrites.