I'm amazed that the unions have their heads this much above sea level.
They have been way in the same camp as Blacks, just campaigning hugely for dems, who have done NOTHING for them.
Unions were against NAFTA; dems didn't even pretend to fight it.
The dems are not really for working people and sometimes I think the union leadership is not either.
It is when you are thinking that way that you are correct. Unions are Communist surrogates. Where Marx said the masses, Sweeney says the workers. The Communist encouraged and fomented class warfare. The unions create a divide between management and labor. Union leaders and Communist Party leaders function the same. They take money from the masses (workers) and promise them security (high paying jobs and benefits). Both eventually kill the goose.
Sweeney wants union membership to BE the guest worker program. Join a union and you are home free with a good paying job, security, and in short order, citizenship. They only want to replace "guest workers" with union members. The unions have been bleeding membership badly and this is a way for them to get back flush quickly.
Poetic justice, but not good for the country, would be for the illegals to form their own unions and undercut the AFL-CIO with lower wages and harder workers. Also, if the politicians ever developed any courage they would be easy to find, round up and return.