AFL-CIO president bids farewell as labor leader (Union leader just called Americans racist)

ap ^ | 9/13/2009 | SAM HANANEL

[tobyhill]

John Sweeney, stepping down after 14 years at the helm of the AFL-CIO, urged union leaders Sunday to keep up the fight to reform health care and overhaul labor laws so workers can form unions more easily.

"We're on the cusp of the greatest advance in labor law reform in 70 years, but we're taking heavy fire from the corporate captains of deceit," Sweeney told about 1,000 union members at the federation's convention.

He said efforts to pass health care legislation have been met with "a firestorm of meanness, stoked by politicians playing on fear, racism, nativism and greed."

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sweeney is a freeloading pig. Adios piggy! This is the best news I’ve heard all day.

[Cheetahcat]

The little Man hates Americans, he needs to leave also.

[mainepatsfan]

nativism

So they're in favor of free trade now? /s

[ronnie raygun]

Like our despicable politicians who have decieved us for many years and feel they have the right to be arrogant and pompus, so are the labor leaders who are one in the same.

[BamaDi]

what a cheap little pig...

[Man50D]

Sweeney told about 1,000 union members at the federation's convention.

They certainly are a force. The 2 million who marched in Washington D.C. yesterday don't stand a chance.

[blam]

"He said efforts to pass health care legislation have been met with "a firestorm of meanness, stoked by politicians playing on fear, racism, nativism and greed."

This from a thieving, lying scum-bag thug.

[peeps36]

The liberal union leaders support a health care takeover that will hurt middle class workers. Who could trust a leader that supports anti worker things like illegal immigration? The unions are being run by people who don't care about the plight of the workingman. It is just like our government.

[Rumplemeyer]

Isn’t Sweeney a menber of the CMUSA, it is some socialist organization.

[Rumplemeyer]

CPUSA, sorry

[Rumplemeyer]

Democratic Socialists of America, Sweeney is a “prominent” member.

[Cheetahcat]

“The liberal union leaders support a health care takeover that will hurt middle class workers. Who could trust a leader that supports anti worker things like illegal immigration? The unions are being run by people who don't care about the plight of the workingman. It is just like our government.”

They have went well past their place and time these dinosaurs need to move along.

[DGHoodini]

“Seven hundred fifty Billion
doesn’t buy a hell of a lot!
Seven hundred fifty Billion
doesn’t buy a thing!
But give all a daily share
every hour of every week
And that’s enough for all of us
to be living like a Queen!”

[muawiyah]

John Sweeney is the puke who's led labor unions from respectability to degradation, and lost millions of members on the way.

Let's pray his retirement is miserable.

[denydenydeny]

but we're taking heavy fire from the corporate captains of deceit,"

This from the champion of an assault on the secret ballot titled "the Employee Free Choice Act."

[bert]

That opens the way for Richard Trumka a real honest to God Terrorist.

He dressed his union strikers and Catholic nuns in camouflage as they occupied and destroyed mines in South West Virginia.

[LeonardFMason]

John Sweeney is a leftist TURD.