so you think it would be okay for the AFL-CIO to get big bucks from Putin ?
It is a good bet that Soviet/KGB/Russian money has been going to Marxist/communist/socialist-led American unions since the 1920s. The whole CIO was literally an extension of the Soviet KGB, esp. the UE (United Electrical Workers).
Read the congressional hearings on Communism and Labor from both the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Sen. Judiciary Committee. It’s all there.
Today’s leftist unions, most spawns of older CPUSA founded/led unions (i.e. Local 1199 Hospital Workers Union; District 65 Distributive Workers, etc - NOW THE SEIU) are heavily socialist/Marxist led. The leader of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, formerly the leader of the United Mine Workers of America, is a hardcore Marxist, with a preference in the old days for the Trotskyite “Socialist Workers Party”. You can read about him in their weekly publication “The Militant”, esp. in the 1970’s and 80’s, before they fell apart.
Of course not, but the point is unions need beating in Russia in order to make its industries competitive. Blue collar wages in Russia are rather miserable but overall labor cost is higher than in Germany for some reason. It has to be addressed either way.
Not to mention unions are a base of all kinds of Communist opposition.
In fact Ford did well against Russian auto unions on its own in the past without much help from authorities.
You believe what that court said? You dont think its another Russian government lie to clamp down on dissent? I do.