Posted on 09/08/2015 1:57:25 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Boston (CNN) --- President Barack Obama lambasted Republican presidential candidates Monday, charging the GOP is treating American workers like a hostile force while looking out only for the rich.
Obama delivered a Labor Day speech in Boston, where he traveled to unveil a new executive order he signed forcing companies who contract with the federal government to provide paid sick leave to their employees.
Obama, saying he was relieved to not be on the ballot next November, hit at Republicans who he claimed were espousing policies that would erode the middle class.
"We're starting to hear a lot about middle-class values," he said. "Some folks seem confused about what exactly that means."
Without mentioning him by name, Obama struck at Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for answering a question about his ISIS strategy earlier this year by saying: "If I can take on 100,000 (union) protesters, I can do the same across the globe."
"He is bragging about how he destroyed collective bargaining rights in his state," Obama said to boos Monday. "And [he] says that busting unions prepares him to fight ISIL. I didn't make that up. That's what he said."
Obama added incredulously, "Really?"
The president told the crowd of nearly 800 union members that organized labor had help secure basic American worker rights like weekends off and a 40-hour workweek.
"Speaking at a Labor Day rally in Hampton, Ill., today Hillary Clinton threatened to imprison employers for wage theft.
Were going to go back to enforcing labor laws, Clinton said.
Im going to make sure that some employers go to jail for wage theft and all the other abuses that they engage in........................
“Anti-union?” That’s a label I would not only wear proudly but would actually brag about!
“Hogwash”.......Obama is the most hateful and destructive enemy of USA industial labor unions. He has destroyed millions of high paying “Blue Collar” jobs!!! if there is one blue collar union member that votes for Clinton, Biden, Sanders...you are either high on reefer, stoned drunk, or, just totally insane!!!
Remember the XL Oil Pipeline!!!
Another day of riling up a special interest group.
Divided we fall... it’s been known for a long time.
I believe the Soviets used to refer to them as “commissars”, monitoring attitudes and speech and making minds right...
Anti-union, or anti FORCED union?
Obama is anti-union.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-07/698k-native-born-americans-lost-their-job-august-why-suddenly-most-important-jobs-ch
I love my Tahoe, I have to drive it till it has 300,000 miles at this point, but I hate GM with a passion, with all the huge salary's those GM workers get they cannot make an engine that will last a half a million with no defective parts?
Next one will be built in a union free plant, anywhere in the world I don't care, no union workers building my next car.
President Obama: If Tom Brady Needs A Union, We All Do
And your point here is what, Obama? That cheaters who get caught and who destroy evidence need unions to help bail them out after breaking the rules?
That’s ok Obungo,you are Anti American
IIRC, that was the grocery store baggers that sad that after Homer was bothering them.
That’s right; the political officers that speak much and work/fight little.
[snip] Without mentioning him by name, Obama struck at Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for answering a question about his ISIS strategy earlier this year by saying: "If I can take on 100,000 (union) protesters, I can do the same across the globe. He is bragging about how he destroyed collective bargaining rights in his state... And [he] says that busting unions prepares him to fight ISIL. I didn't make that up. That's what he said... Really?" [/snip]
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