National Right to Work president Mark Mix recently wrote in the Washington Examiner about the Obama Administration’s refusal to attend the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Providence at the behest of militant union bosses.

In an unprecedented move, the administration completely boycotted the conference with the intention of sending an unmistakeable message to all U.S. mayors who are struggling to keep America’s cities solvent: Abandon fiscal responsibility and hand over local governments to the union bosses.

Miami mayor Manny Diaz, outgoing president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), has accused the White House of “setting a very dangerous precedent” during the organization’s 2009 annual meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. Vice President Joe Biden, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, and Cabinet members Shaun Donavan, Arne Duncan, and Gary Locke had all been slated to attend.

Not one showed up.

Why would Obama and his Cabinet do such a thing to their close political friends? Because International Association of Firefighters (IAFF/AFL-CIO) union President Harold Schaitberger told them to.

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