Nikki Haley really hates unions. And she’s proud of it.
“How much does GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley hate unions?
The former South Carolina governor once devoted more than three minutes of her “State of the State” address to a diatribe against organized labor, boasting about her state’s low unionization rate. ‘We don’t have unions in South Carolina because we don’t need unions in South Carolina,’ she said.
She waged a years-long personal crusade against a union organizing a Charleston-area factory, putting an anti-union lawyer in her administration expressly to help her “fight” the campaign. She later lent her voice to radio ads urging factory workers to reject the union effort.
And she once declared that she didn’t want jobs coming to her state at all if they were going to be union jobs. ‘We don’t want to taint the water,’ she said . . .
She added she was proud of her time fighting unions in South Carolina.
‘I was a union buster,’ she said. ‘I didn’t want to bring in companies that were unionized simply because I didn’t want to have that change the environment in our state.’
South Carolina has historically had one of the lowest rates of union membership in the country. Last year, it had the lowest of all, with just 1.7% of the state’s workers belonging to a union, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The next-lowest state was North Carolina, at 2.8%. By comparison, union-dense New York stood at 21%, and Hawaii at 22%.”
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