Posted on 09/05/2017 11:07:24 AM PDT by mdittmar
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement on today’s announcement that the Trump administration will terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program:
President Donald Trump’s move to terminate DACA and strip work authorization away from 800,000 productive members of our society is cruel and wrong. Ending DACA will increase the pool of vulnerable workers in our country and embolden employers to retaliate against working men and women who dare to organize on the job or speak out against abusive working conditions. This indefensible act will make our workplaces less fair and less safe and will undermine our freedom to join together and fight to raise wages and standards.
This direct attack on union members and union values only strengthens our resolve to overcome racial divisions and demand changes to a system rigged to benefit the wealthiest and corporations. The eyes of history are upon us. The labor movement will stand with these brave young workers and fight for legislation so that the contributions they make are celebrated, rather than assaulted. We will push for a pathway to citizenship and continue to oppose enforcement policies that discriminate and generate fear in our workplaces and communities. We will not give up the struggle until all working people have rights on the job, regardless of where they were born.
I remember when AFL-CIO picketed a construction project here for bringing in Mexican workers. Seems so long ago.
I remember when the AFL-CIO actually stood for American workers.
So all the DACA kids are union members now? I thought they were all going to college. :-)
The DACA announcement was a statement that you will receive justice.
Flouting the law is justice?
Bizarro World
If the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wanted the AFL-CIO to have a leader who was willing to sell out American workers, they couldn’t have found a better guy than this dope.
You have too pay them union dues,that’s the only way to work hard;)
Union goons gooning in goonery.
Hey you POS sellout Trumka,why don’t you come clean and take American out of AFL. As it stands,the illegals have more “Constitutional” and special made up rights than Americans. That’s not hyperbole. Build the Wall,abolish the 14th,immediately rescind every Obama and previous administration’s illegal alien legislation and kick every illegal out post haste. There is a very good chance none of this will happen. I already see DACA removal is making the GOP wet themselves. This government sucks.
Was that before they stood for organized crime or after?
“I remember when AFL-CIO picketed a construction project here for bringing in Mexican workers. Seems so long ago.”
My impression is that the unions were, up until recently, working for their member’s rights and benefits. (Constantly pushing for more and more of everything, but, still, for their members.) Then, at some point, they became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic party. The Democrats have left the working class, especially working class white and black citizens, behind. So, none of this makes much sense.
I wish these people (used loosely) would remember that “justice” also implies “lawful” - the exact opposite of what they demand.
Trumka and union goons got away with murdering Eddie York..The unions flout laws all the time
What the democrats and their union leader minions cannot grasp is that the American working class now realizes this. Which is why we now have Donald Trump, President of the United States.
America has a ruling class, the Oligarchs. They own the Unions, the Media and the Politicians (and Education and the Federal Reserve, and every NGO from SPLC/ACLU to the Sierra Club). I don’t know how much more plainly obvious this could be.
There, fixed it for ya, Dickie
If "recently" is about 1905.
When yu break the law to enter illegally, and then a US President acts illegally to provide benefits to those entering illegally, then ending this action is the only justice.
The AFL-CIO has lost membership over the years and needs the DACA/illegal immigrant replacements.
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