[Brad from Tennessee]

[Me thinks the afl-cio is sending messages to it's own “hunger strikers”. They are hungry for new members]

New members are meaningless unless they have jobs and can pay dues. Immigration reform/Amnesty will inflate the U.S. labor force, dilute wages and benefits, and make union busting easier for employers. AFL/CIO played a big role in killing the Bush amnesty push in 2007. Big labor has always opposed immigration. Even Cesar Chavez, head of United Farm Workers, waged a battle against illegal aliens stealing the jobs of American Latinos.

I think the union leadership pays lip service to amnesty because its a Democrat cause but in reality are plotting a way for Obama to kill it—like he did as a senator in 2007—and blame it on the GOP.

[mdittmar]

"New members are meaningless unless they have jobs and can pay dues.'

Old members are meaningless unless they have jobs and can pay dues.

The "pay dues" part is the key.