Posted on 09/02/2013 8:34:31 AM PDT by lowbridge
Breitbart is reporting that in what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation’s largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation.
In an August 29 letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, ILWU President Robert McEllrath cited quite a list of grievances as reasons for the disillusion of their affiliation, but prominent among them was the AFL-CIO’s support of Obamare.
“We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along,” McEllrath wrote in the letter to Trumka.
The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their “Cadillac” healthcare plan.
The Longshoreman leader said, “President Obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits.” But, regardless of that promise, the President has pushed for just such a tax and Trumka and the AFL-CIO bowed to political pressure lining up behind Obama’s tax on those plans.
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What’s scary is that these loons are more radical than Trumpka..
I'm sure they're disillusioned with Obama, but I'm sure the word they need is dissolution.
re: “The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their “Cadillac” healthcare plan.”
Ok, they are against Obamacare, but NOT single payer, nationalized healthcare??
Yes, I get that the unions don’t like their union insurance being taxed, but how in the h**l do they not think that single payer nationalized healthcare wouldn’t do the same thing and destroy their “cadillac” healthcare plans, too??
Does this guy speak for the rank and file members or is he just another Dem crook? I think I already know the answer to that question.
Obamacare is going to lead to single-payer anyway.
The question begs, does he by Executive order give them out, and or is this protest real and do they stay home like they did in 94' because of NAFTA and Gun Control. If I had the answer to that question, I'd be on Faux News, not William Kristol....
Yeah, right. "If you think it's expensive now, wait until it's free."
I thought the AFL-CIO got a waiver ...
Boo hoo on their Cadillac tax woes. How much of a “tax” do we pay on goods handled by those union goons?
The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their “Cadillac” healthcare plan.
They don't want to be taxed on their healthcare plan but want single payer? Maybe I'm missing something or this is bad reporting, which isn't unusual these days.
Reminder to self:
Buy more popcorn.
“They don’t want to be taxed on their healthcare plan but want single payer? Maybe I’m missing something or this is bad reporting, which isn’t unusual these days. “
Socialists are just stupid, thats all.
"Immigration reform" (AKA Amnesty for illegal aliens and invitation for siege of new illegals) is a huge sucker punch for all working Americans, especially those who would like to keep their current hours and wages and benefits.
One suspects that labor unions workers will be hardest hit, as their leadership will organize the new immigrants into their ranks and files.
The union leaders appear to be double-crossing the membership, and up to this point, the membership hasn't figured it out.
It's just my guess, and welcome to it.
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they want a Cadillac single payer plan paid for by the government.
Grievances schmievances.. Trumka could care less.
He’s just one more tool in the bag.
Problem is, there is a Hugh hole in the bottom of the bag..
And he’s taking his ‘members&colleagues’ down with him.
These guys are morons. They’ll vote for the next Democrap no matter what.
Agreed.
“...disillusion of their affiliation...”
The word of the day is “dissolution.”
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