Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Immigration Accountability Executive Action

AFL-CIO ^ | November 20, 2014 | AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

[Rome2000]

Be nice to put this corrupt communist MF criminal behind bars where he belongs.

The marxists won’t control DOJ forever, and he should be number one on the target list.

[vpintheak]

Lets see, dumb uneducated people, easy to fool into doing things like handing over a bunch of money to union bosses. Funding retirement of old unions hands A huge influx of new young and dumb unionista’s.
What’s not to like for an old union guy? The next generation of workers be damned, they can find their own people to fund their outrageous retirement packages.

[NYRepublican72]

No, it’s not a revelation to me. However, you’d think the rank-and-file would toss the bums out.

[glyptol]

Mr. Trumka,
I think your family came here legally?

[matt04]

I worked in a Union grocery store. So,e of the dumbest and laziest people Imever met. Was offere a manager/supervisor job. I refused. I saw no point in trying to mange people who you Could not dicipline in any way.

One instance inremember involvd a CW getting suspend for violating a policy they signed. They got back pay after they they claimed they forgot they signed it.

[plain talk]

Bingo. He thinks he will get more union dues. not sure how much.

[tanknetter]

Trumka is a sell out to his union. He basically just called for his union members to have their jobs outsourced or take a pay cut.

He's a collectivist, running a collectivist organization that's part of a collectivist movement.

A big winner in this is going to be the SEIU. The influx of low-wage workers into that union will overall benefit the collective. Recall that on another thread today someone posted stats showing that 20 years ago union employees voted Dem 80% of the time, but today that's dropped to 60%. That's not good for the collective, especially since higher-wage manufacturing jobs (what the AFL-CIO tends to represent) are pretty much stagnant after a long period of decline. So the bet is that the SEIU can bring in enough low-wage immigrant labor to offset the loss of the higher-skilled labor.

[RetiredTexasVet]

“...because our broken immigration system ...”

There is nothing broken about the immigration system. The Progressives don’t like it so they claim it is “broken” and needs to be fixed to fulfill their desires. Note how the health care system was claimed to be “broken” so they could fix it with CommieCare. Note that they claim that any system that doesn’t meet their personal desires is “broken”.

[john mirse]

Executive orders:

1. Unlimited use of such power? Does President Obama, and any future president, have unlimited use of executive orders?

2. For instance, can President Obama legally sign another executive order in, say, six months, where he again legalizes another 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 illegals, and nobody can do anything about it?

3. Doe it also mean that President Obama, in anther year November 2015, sign again another executive order legalizing other illegals, or bring in 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 people from, say, war-torn Iraq and Syria?

4. My point is this: Does all this executive order mess concerning immigration have an "enough is enough" stopping point, or will Obama and future presidents have the legal right to use executive orders to bring non-citizens into the United States as long and as often as they want?

5.God help us if Obama can legally sign immigration executive orders as often as he wants these last two years of his term, because he claims and makes the excuse that Congress is not doing its job when it come to immigration reform.

[acapesket]

I just looked at a a home built by the Union Boss of the carpenter’s Union in 1984. It is a falling down, moldy, poorly built, leaky mess. Dude is Dead but the one thing they kept to sell This Disaster was a book written by Trumpka.
I thought it very telling… beautiful piece of property built by intensely inadequate people.
It, and they disgust me.

[glyptol]

I forgot to add.

A man stopped a cop and said “I think there is a dead man over there” pointing.

The cop looked and said “ he’s not dead he just works for the AFL-CIO”.

This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when union membership did in fact save lives and provided safer working conditions for it’s members. But always a price for the Union.

Times have changed and the I want mine and to you know what to you.

The pendulum swings and still no balance.

We are having economic fallout and we will reep the whirlwind.

Lack of teaching the actual history without bias, for your own (not directed at you, it’s a generalization) greed, has destroyed many things throughout history,and generational ignorance and greed keep us at a point we should have gotten beyond before I was born.

[Pietro]

Trumka has already thrown the coal miners under the bus, and he was supposedly a coal miner. Now he's throwing the remaining working men under the same bus as he cozies up to chamber maids.

Wonder when he was last in Greene County--they'd lynch that benedict Arnold.