If you want a great new example of how corruption and self-dealing has become standard operating procedure for Big Labor’s massive political fundraising apparatus, look no further than recent developments in the economically devastated, forced-unionism state of California.

Sean Harrigan, former United Food and Commercial Workers (UFWC) union boss, is currently under investigation for abusing his position as trustee and president of California’s gigantic $176 billion public pension fund known as CalPERS. Apparently Harrigan steered pension funds to investment firms that agreed to contribute to Big Labor’s pet political causes.

Union officials and their allies reportedly went around asking for political contributions on Sean Harrigan’s explicit behalf.

“You don’t have to explain that (investment firms) are going to be at a competitive disadvantage if they don’t contribute,” said Allison Hayward, a campaign finance specialist at George Mason University School of Law. “The implication is, ‘Nice business you have here. Shame if something were to happen to it.’”

Read more about this bombshell case at the National Right to Work Foundation’s blog.

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