Liz Peek wrote a great piece on the danger that unions present to the farming industry on FoxNews. Headlined “Unions are the Biggest Threat to Farm Workers,” Peek makes some salient points.

Peek reveals that Obama’s Dept. of Labor is yet again wallowing in big government expansion just like every other sector of Obama’s regime.

According to a release from Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, the Obama administration has hired an additional 250 investigators – a 33% increase – to more energetically oversee those who employ migrant workers, such as blueberry farmers in North Carolina. They are especially on the lookout for growers who have hired children under the (legal) age of 12, or who have paid less than minimum wage to pickers. To rein in abuses, the Labor Department has ramped up penalties. Fines now range up to $11,000 for violations previously costing $1,000. In addition, the department is supporting a bill that would make it more difficult for young people to work on farms

Unlike what the Dept. of Labor is supposed to be for, of course, Solis is using her position as Labor Sec. to be a union flak instead of standing as an unbiased authority intent on a fair adjudicator between labor and business.

Peek notes that Solis is hiding behind a faux expression of caring for the welfare underaged workers. But in truth she is merely acting the shill for Big Labor.

Why does Big Labor care so much about migrant families? Perhaps because there are hundreds of thousands of nonunion workers who, each year, cultivate the produce of the United States, 85% of which is done by hand. As union enrollment has declined across the private sector, organizers have anxiously searched for new members, especially among the Hispanic community. Those at the bottom of the work pyramid are easily convinced that a beneficent union can secure higher pay and can demand better protections against abuses. They don’t realize that union organizers could well cost them their jobs — a reality that accounts for the decades-long slump in union totals elsewhere.

Peek notes that Solis has made multiple attempts to give Big Labor big wins within these six months she has filled her position. The result, Peek says is no battle to support children but “it is yet another salvo against small business owners by organized labor and the Obama administration.”

Please do read the whole article because it is a good one.

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