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US unions plan attack on Donald Trump in attempt to derail presidential bid
The Guardian ^ | Tuesday 26 April 2016 07.00 EDT | Lauren Gambino and Jana Kasperkevic

Posted on 04/26/2016 2:25:04 PM PDT by Nacho Bidnith

US unions plan attack on Donald Trump in attempt to derail presidential bid

Concerned labor group leaders are organizing ad campaigns and phone banks as Trump’s populist message on trade and jobs draws in union voters

The prospect of a Donald Trump nomination has labor leaders scrambling to hold the line as the Republican frontrunner’s appeal to disaffected working-class voters threatens to upset the traditional political calculus.

The majority of America’s almost 15 million unionized workers can be usually be relied upon to back the Democratic candidate in a presidential year, but leaders are concerned by Trump’s populist message on trade and jobs – and his insistence that union workers are just one of many groups on a long list of those he claims “love” him.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016issues; biglabor; election2016; goons; janakasperkevic; laurengambino; newyork; richardtrumka; theonepercent; trump; trumpunions; unionbosses; unions; unionvote
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To: Jane Long

I will never forget the words of my daughter’s longtime former Union activist Father in-law telling his son, my son in law, another Union booster, on the 2008 election of Obama after his promising to transform America,

“You are going to get a change all right. Just not the one you want.”

Was he ever right.


21 posted on 04/26/2016 2:47:52 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: catnipman
I googled this issue and basically only The Guardian is reporting it, so I suspect it’s simply ultra-leftist fantasy.

I agree. Trumpka's a fat communist P.O.S., but he isn't that dumb to make a lot of pushback on Trump. Probably for show.
22 posted on 04/26/2016 2:49:25 PM PDT by farming pharmer ('Your work will warm you' - overheard in a Soviet gulag...)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

they’ll simply blow their own organization’s loyalty levels to hell - unions have not prospered under Obama


23 posted on 04/26/2016 2:49:40 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Nacho Bidnith

The union effort will be no more effective than the GOP establishment’s efforts and the mainstream media efforts. Do they not understand that no one trusts them any more?


24 posted on 04/26/2016 2:54:20 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

Most of the union workers will probably support Trump. But the top union leaders don’t give a damn about the workers, as long as their pockets get well greased. This is the “leaders” talking.


25 posted on 04/26/2016 2:55:57 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

Ah, episode 17 of The Establishment Strikes Back.


26 posted on 04/26/2016 2:57:05 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Cicero

I was a member of the AFL-CIO till the day I retired. Me and two other AFL-CIO retirees I know, are all voting Trump.


27 posted on 04/26/2016 2:58:30 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

Will the unions leadership start handing out “Don’t vote for Trump” bats...?


28 posted on 04/26/2016 2:59:52 PM PDT by Popman
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To: Nacho Bidnith

Yeah well, I am hearing a lot of the rank and file are voting for Trump.


29 posted on 04/26/2016 3:01:19 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Ciexyz

That’s what I’m praying is happening, everywhere....that union members, and especially retirees are going to vote for Trump.

Good for you...and your union buddies for voting Trump.


30 posted on 04/26/2016 3:01:50 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: grania
Would it be surprising if leadership is pro-Hillary and union members are pro-Trump?

Look at the massive crowd Trump drew in Wilkes-Barre, a union dominated town. He did well last week in upstate New York.

31 posted on 04/26/2016 3:04:05 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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32 posted on 04/26/2016 3:09:41 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: SERKIT

I don’t know what a Trumper is, but I heard yesterday that supposedly 16,000 border patrol agents support Donald Trump.


33 posted on 04/26/2016 3:10:00 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

“We can’t be fooled,” Richard Trumka, president of AFL-CIO, ...”

sure, Trumka should campaign for Hillary based on her support for gun control, anti-hunting, closing down the coal industry, opposing Keystone XL, support for NAFTA, GATT, WTF, MFN China, Fast Track, TPP and TTIP, creeps in female bathrooms and locker rooms, gay marriage, and coastal gentry elite liberal snobbery...

should be an easy sell !


34 posted on 04/26/2016 3:12:06 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (UK out of EU; UN out of USA !)
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To: JPJones; All

Yup, and Trump is the only one who understand construction, manufacturing, finance, international trade, currency, and business in general. Cruz and Kasich are bed wetting politicians.


35 posted on 04/26/2016 3:12:58 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

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This article is BS!

A year ago the big unions let it be known to all their business agents and stewards that they were quite OK with Trump, but were not going to openly support him because they thought it would negatively affect his candidacy.
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36 posted on 04/26/2016 3:14:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

Maybe we will see the Union Thug leaders removed from power while we remove the GOPe from power this year.


37 posted on 04/26/2016 3:16:10 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When The Ballot No Longer Counts, The Ammo Box Does! What's In Your Ammo Box?(US Conservative)!)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

Ooh, Donald’s a real threat to their supposed automatons.


38 posted on 04/26/2016 3:18:18 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: EEGator

“I’m in a union, and I voted for Trump today.”

“Plenty of the guys I work with are voting for him as well.”

We have younger relatives who hire and manage so called blue collar guys in Unions.

They estimate a a very large % are for Trump and will vote for him, to protect their jobs, families and country.


39 posted on 04/26/2016 3:19:39 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When The Ballot No Longer Counts, The Ammo Box Does! What's In Your Ammo Box?(US Conservative)!)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

“Trump isn’t interested in solving the problems he yells and swears about. He delivers punch lines, but there’s nothing funny about them.”

Well this guy is just another stupid angry democrat with no sense of humor.


40 posted on 04/26/2016 3:19:49 PM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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