Originally Posted by Bluedriver

I think there are legal hurdles to using union money to lobby or contribute to campaigns for members in our districts. That's why Alpa has a separate PAC, it's more free to make political contributions.

Then you have our membership, which is largely opposed to contributing anything to Democrat candidates campaigns for political reasons. Of course our HQ and focus cities are all D representatives.

TWU has a different membership makeup, so their membership is more agreeable to D campaign contributions.