Labor chief criticizes Obama (Thug #1, Trumka)

The nation’s top labor leader on Friday said President Obama has allowed talk of attacking federal deficits to overrun his message on jobs and economic growth, while hitting Fox News for being anti-union.

“I think he made a strategic blunder whenever he confused his stimulus/jobs agenda” by letting deficits dominate the conversation, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said of Mr. Obama in response to questions at the National Press Club.

The unions have long been a critical component of the Democratic Party base, but Mr. Trumka’s remarks suggested the umbrella labor group could take a more independent stance in 2012.

Mr. Trumka praised the president for supporting additional taxpayer money for infrastructure projects, aid to the states and loans for small- and medium-sized businesses. But he hit Mr. Obama for his recent support of long-stalled trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia.

“I think putting the Colombia free trade agreement up [for a vote in Congress] will be a strategic blunder,” the labor chief said, citing violence against workers in the Latin American nation.

If the AFL-CIO decides to support Mr. Obama in his re-election - Mr. Trumka said members “haven’t decided who we’re supporting next year” - the president’s backing of trade deals won’t lessen that support but will make it more difficult to promote him, he conceded.

Mr. Trumka also sounded off on the media, saying he regrets that money-starved news outlets don’t have enough resources to do the investigative reporting they once did.

Mr. Trumka also sounded off on the media, saying he regrets that money-starved news outlets don’t have enough resources to do the investigative reporting they once did.

Wrong again Trumka!

Fox News has plenty of money to investigate you, the union goon in a suit and your fellow union thugs.

Mr. Trumka might want to reconsider his criticisms.

The Obama Administration has gone to the mat for the union hog multiple times. Most recently in the issue of Boeing. His “thug” appointees to the USDL pretty much killed their idea of movng production to S.C. “because they didn’t seek prior union approval”. Pretty much evident the goons think they, and only they, can make corporate decisions without sitting on the board.

Might serve a lot of folks a healthy helping of crow if Boeing took its new production offshore....As GM did, reportedly using taxpayer money to move motor production to Mexico. >PS

The NLB has no standing whatsoever in it's ruling against Boeing and if they had any brains.....which union idiots don't....they'd know it.

The 787 is scheduled for delivery of 10 airplanes per month. The line in Everett can produce 7 per month, and the new Boeing facility in SC can and will produce 3 airplanes per month. Not a single union member in Everett will lose their job, in fact Boeing has hired an additional 2,000 workers there. As for the line in SC, you'd think the media would be all over it touting how good for the economy and environment it will be. Over one thousand people have already been hired in SC, and the 1.2 million square foot state of the art new facility gets over 20% of it's energy from solar....any enviro-whackos wet dream. In summary, real jobs were created, no work was moved. The NLB doesn't have a leg to stand on, and they know it, and Boeing knows it too. Boeing also knows how crooked this admin is, and if you read Jim McNearney's (Boeing Pres & CEO) oped piece in the WSJ you see that McNearney is serious as a heart attack letting them know that jobs could easily be shipped off shore.

From the WSJ...

... The world the NLRB wants to create with its complaint would effectively prevent all companies from placing new plants in right-to-work states if they have existing plants in unionized states. But as an unintended consequence, forward-thinking CEOs also would be reluctant to place new plants in unionized states—lest they be forever restricted from placing future plants elsewhere across the country.

U.S. tax and regulatory policies already make it more attractive for many companies to build new manufacturing capacity overseas. That's something the administration has said it wants to change and is taking steps to address. It appears that message hasn't made it to the front offices of the NLRB.

Mr. McNerney is chairman, president and CEO of the Boeing Co.

Further stoked by this piece in The Hill by Kevin Bogardus:
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/162513-senate-dems-tell-top-nrlb-lawyer-not-to-give-away-boeing-strategy

I knew we were about to become ear deep in the kimchee when Obama promised a “new era in governmental transparency”. FDR’s administrations largely worked covertly in achieving their ends. Nixon’s subterfuges were largely on the international scene. Carter was plainly a bumbler in way over his head. (pun intended). Even the WJC administration hadn’t the nerve to “face down” the public the Obama Administration has demonstrated.

The “New Democrats” still spout the same pro-people platitudes of yore, but consistently pursue strategies inimical to the “working class”. This is merely the latest. >PS

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