According to Paul Kersey of the Mackinac Center, the decisive moment for Terry Bowman came when his union, UAW Local 898, ran an article in its newsletter arguing that Jesus would have supported Obamacare. Bowman’s frustration with the union’s use of his dues to push a big government liberal agenda led Bowman to form an organization called Union Conservatives. 
According to Bowman, unions claim “Solidarity” but then marginalize and exclude conservative members. One goal of Union Conservatives is “reorienting the Marxist and Socialist mindset of the union organization” and getting unions to acknowledge that the U.S. is based on a free-market economic system where businesses have not only the right but the obligation to survive and make a profit. Unfortunately for Bowman, the idea of a true fiscal Conservative Unionist is as conceivable as an Atheist Christian – philosophically, the two cannot coexist within the same body! (Unless of course the union member is one by force, not by choice.) Bowman says he’s tired of the non-productive adversarial relationship between unions and management and he feels nothing will change until more conservatives hold high union office. (Good luck with that, Terry, by the way.) Bowman recently wrote an op ed piece for the Detroit News where he called for Right to Work legislation as the only way to refocus union leaders on serving their members, a plucky move for a UAW member in Michigan.
