Hmm, you will likely get some opposition from the usual places about the idea that a corporation should be limited to the same as a person.
I have an alternate to that, though -- how about if the organization were allowed to contribute 100 Whatsits per person in it who gave up their own contribution? That is, it would still be 100 Whatsits per person, but if a person wanted to give that to the organisation to used as the organisation (in practice, its leaders) wants then they could do that. So yes, an organisation with 10 thousand members could donate on the order of a million Whatsits, but so could 10 thousand individuals who donated in opposition to it.
However, the problem I see for a union doing political donations is -- to whom? I don't see any political party which wouldn't just take the money and run (or turn round and screw the unions). The only political clout the unions have now, as far as I can see, is by pulling a general strike, which will hurt the ordinary people (and their own members) much more than it will the politicians in their comfy chairs and guaranteed wages (which they vote to put up). It used to be nice and simple (Tories anti-union, Labour pro-union, no one else need apply) but NuLab showed that didn't apply any more, they were just as anti-people as any of the others.
I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that only direct action will change anything...
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I have an alternate to that, though -- how about if the organization were allowed to contribute 100 Whatsits per person in it who gave up their own contribution? That is, it would still be 100 Whatsits per person, but if a person wanted to give that to the organisation to used as the organisation (in practice, its leaders) wants then they could do that. So yes, an organisation with 10 thousand members could donate on the order of a million Whatsits, but so could 10 thousand individuals who donated in opposition to it.
However, the problem I see for a union doing political donations is -- to whom? I don't see any political party which wouldn't just take the money and run (or turn round and screw the unions). The only political clout the unions have now, as far as I can see, is by pulling a general strike, which will hurt the ordinary people (and their own members) much more than it will the politicians in their comfy chairs and guaranteed wages (which they vote to put up). It used to be nice and simple (Tories anti-union, Labour pro-union, no one else need apply) but NuLab showed that didn't apply any more, they were just as anti-people as any of the others.
I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that only direct action will change anything...