By Mark Patinkin
Journal Columnist
Posted May. 14, 2016 at 8:29 PM
On the surface, many of the state's controversial community grants seem to be for good causes.
Like $18,000 to an AIDS group and $2,800 to the Samaritans.
But an odd one jumped out at me.
For decades, taxpayers have been giving big bucks to an outfit whose main mission is training union leaders...
"The Institute for Labor Studies has always considered the education of union stewards and labor leaders to be its primary mission."
They even offer classes on how to file a grievance, appeal a denied disability pension and lobby on union issues. That last one's odd since nonprofits aren't supposed to be political, but ILSR is so blatant that one of its courses teaches "collecting money for political campaigns."
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