The mine workers really should endorse Romney, if they do maybe their union could last for another decade or two.
If I ran a union I’d be d*mned to hell before I endorsed a guy who promised to “bankrupt” my industry.
Unions are more about political ideology these days than common sense. Good chance the union leaders will rather seek good graces of leftists or is already owned by them.
Those endorsements could get personal, too.
Remember back in 1960 Hoffa and the Teamsters endorsed Nixon because Jimmy Hoffa hated Bobby....
Is this a bellwether? Maybe, just maybe.
I very rarely use Facebook but had to to find someone and when logging onto it I saw an ad thing for “I won’t vote for Obama in 2012” and there was my brother’s name. I clicked to his page and low and behold, the only political like was for Allen West. I was absolutely floored.
You see, my brother is a shop steward (I think) at the GE jet engine factory in Ohio. One of our biggest disagreements is over unions and we haven’t spoken to each other in years. He fell ill and was even more ill (figuratively) because he could not go to the big union meeting that was held in DC within the last year.
For over 30 years he has been a lockstep, pro strike union mobilizer and leader at his place of employment and has also been sent to major union deals as a rep. Surely I will see pigs flying in formation as I head out to west Florida today.
You must be talking about Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO, previously the President of the UMW.
Judas Iscariot had higher principles.