Another video exposes union-buster Bevin

By BERRY CRAIG

AFT Local 1360

If you're as old as I am--69--you remember movie double features.

Click here to see a new video with Chad Mills, business manager of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 633 in Owensboro. Like the one we posted on Wednesday, it's more proof--as it were needed--that GOP Gov. Matt Bevin is a bare-knucks union-buster who richly merits retirement on Nov. 5.  

Mills explains why he's supporting pro-union Democrat Andy Beshear over Bevin, one of the most anti-union governors in Bluegrass State history. (The Kentucky State AFL-CIO unanimously endorsed Beshear.)

"Gov. Bevin claims his economic policies are  working for Kentuckians," Mills says. He points out that "too many working families" are having to work "harder and longer and still coming up short at the end of the month. The truth is, working families are falling farther behind under Matt Bevin."

Mills cites Bevin's support for prevailing wage repeal, which the GOP-majority General Assembly passed in 2017 at the governor's urging. (The same session passed a "right to work" law.

He says PW repeal is not saving the taxpayers' money. Rather, it is sharply lowering wages and benefits for men and women who work on publicly-funded construction projects and driving skilled workers out of "the industry at a time when it is difficult to attract qualified workers."

Adds Mills: "Bevin's strategy, promoting low-skilled, low-wage workers, is a bad policy for workers and taxpayers."   

The video that premiered on the website Wednesday has David Gray, Henderson-based IUOE Local 181 business manager, calling out Bevin. His reelection "campaign slogan is 'We're just getting started,'" Gray says on camera. But what Bevin and the Bevinites "have started is attacking Kentucky workers," the veteran trade unionist adds.

The Gray video lasts about a minute; the Mills video is a tad more than a minute.

So grab some popcorn, sit back, relax and enjoy your double feature. But more importantly, get out, work for, and help elect our endorsed candidates.