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Labor Unions Claim Credit for Obama’s Victory
New York Times ^ | 11/07/2012 | Steven Greenhouse

Posted on 11/08/2012 5:59:37 AM PST by Rusty0604

In a news conference Wednesday, Richard Trumka, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s president, said that without the huge push by the nation’s labor unions, Mr. Obama never would have won Ohio, Wisconsin and Nevada — and their combined 34 electoral votes. In his news conference, Mr. Trumka stopped short of saying he expected any quid pro quo from Mr. Obama. But he made clear what organized labor hoped for, especially as the White House prepares to negotiate with Republicans on Capitol Hill on how to reduce the budget deficit.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: electi0n; laborunions
These folks are militant. I have worked with them and they are the most power hungry and greedy people I have known.
1 posted on 11/08/2012 5:59:42 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Obama’s brown shirted storm troopers.


2 posted on 11/08/2012 6:05:21 AM PST by granada
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To: granada

Hey, union boys and girls. You are just a part of the fraud.


3 posted on 11/08/2012 6:07:48 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Rusty0604

they are only going to get stronger under obama..we are now a one party nation


4 posted on 11/08/2012 6:08:37 AM PST by dalebert
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To: Rusty0604

White blue collar workers ought to be a natural Republican constituency. However, the party has sold its soul to the New York banking oligarchs and the globalist/secularist multinationalists. The result is unrestricted free trade on whatever we import, while our trading “partners” won’t let our exports into their markets. The multinationals send all our manufacturing jobs to China and then re-import what they produce overseas, and the Chinese steal our intellectual property while denying us access to their markets.

The new conservatism that grows out of yesterday’s loss must be a populist, anti-”free” trade conservatism that appeals to white blue collar workers. In so doing, we can both protect our economy from foreign fraud while peeling off union votes in the rust belt and midwest.


5 posted on 11/08/2012 6:12:59 AM PST by Thane_Banquo
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To: Rusty0604

I proudly boycott their junk.


6 posted on 11/08/2012 6:17:51 AM PST by MachIV
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To: Rusty0604

But, but Mr. Tromka, I thought that women won the vote for Obama. No wait, it was the Latinos that won the vote for Obama. Or was it was the blacks that won for Obama?


7 posted on 11/08/2012 6:18:32 AM PST by 3catsanadog (No more blaming Bush, Obama-now you inherited the mess you made.)
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To: Rusty0604

Have they explained why their pro union proposals in Michigan got crushed like bugs?


8 posted on 11/08/2012 6:18:55 AM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: dalebert

as business start cutting back and not expanding and laying people off the unions are going to get smaller ...they cut their own throat!


9 posted on 11/08/2012 6:19:29 AM PST by jrd (DO AWAY WITH THE EPA)
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To: Thane_Banquo

I have tried to explain to union members that are fighting for their big pensions and at the same time wanting to crush business that if business doesn’t make a profit their pension plans won’t make money from their investments. I think some of them thought about it for a minute but it all came back to the fact that the pensions are guaranteed whether the funds made money or not. They just don’t get that is the road to collapse.


10 posted on 11/08/2012 6:20:08 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Unions working to keep productivity down, costs up, and the commisar in power. All Hail.


11 posted on 11/08/2012 6:58:28 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: Rusty0604

Well, congrats guys.

Because under obama there will be little to no labor. Little to no labor means few to none labor workers. Few to none labor workers means no labor union.


12 posted on 11/08/2012 7:06:15 AM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: lowbridge

There will be more government workers; public employee unions are the most radical. Teacher unions and social service unions all benefit from increased government spending.


13 posted on 11/08/2012 7:35:59 AM PST by Rusty0604
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Card Check.

Coming to a cubicle near you.


14 posted on 11/08/2012 8:04:08 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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All of these great union workers have a big surprise coming in Connecticut. Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky etc... At least they'll be able to get food stamps.
15 posted on 11/08/2012 4:44:29 PM PST by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: HenpeckedCon

What surprise? Layoffs of pension cuts?


16 posted on 11/08/2012 5:07:07 PM PST by Rusty0604
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