Posted on 09/01/2014 1:35:23 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Today's Big Labor supports politicians who are committed to destroying unionized mining jobs through the EPA, scoff at the value of more than 10,000 union jobs created by building the Keystone XL pipeline, and actively push for amnesty for illegal aliens who can only drive down the cost of labor, hurting wages.
The days of a Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters Union endorsing Richard Nixon seem far away. Labor leaders are more interested today in creating the low-hanging fruit of public employee union jobs, rather than confronting far- left politicians who are killing private-sector unions through their policies.
While the United Mine Workers of America may have balked at endorsing President Obama in 2012 after his disastrous policies targeted much of their workforce for extinction, their former president, Richard Trumka, in his new role as head of the AFL-CIO, continues to play the role of presidential cheerleader.
Sure, he talks of being disgruntled with some of Obama's economic policies. But when push comes to shove, he'll encourage his members to pull the lever for D.
Construction unions like the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers give lip service to supporting private-sector jobs through projects like building the Keystone XL pipeline.
Yet in the lead-up to the 2012 election for president, the union wrote a scathing attack on Republican nominee Mitt Romney, based on Republican governors pushing measures that reined in public-employee union power in their states.
While the piece claimed to not tell their members how to vote, it left no doubt about whom the union supported — the very same guy whose administration has thrown its collective weight against the very kind of mass construction project that gives their membership work.
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It has always been a socialist holiday.
I told em the same thing - why should I honor unions? Maybe there was once a time, but now they are definitely the turd in the punchbowl.
Government workers are crapola.
They’re tax-leaaches.
The unions were great at one time...but not anymore... they drove industries away from the USA.
Government “workers” do some limited work...however, they do extremely little productive work or any value to humanity. Mainly, they hang on the internet at “work” trying to figure out their retirement track and benefits.
Unions are nothing nowadays but forced labor, government monopolies of labor - by the union, for the union, for nothing but the union - and its paid politicians.
The companies are FORCED by the state to hire the unions, the unions selectively hire the workers who will support the unions, the workers hire the politicians who force the companies to hire the unions.
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