Trump doesn’t like Unions, and they don’t like him?
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/will-the-real-donald-trump-please-stand-up-120607.html
.....Unions still have a place in American society, [Trump] wrote in 2000. In fact, with the globalization craze in full heat, unions are about the only political force reminding us to remember the American working family. Trump singled out Teamsters President Jim Hoffa for particular praise: His knees dont jerk, and if anyone knows how to bring the Teamsters back to their rightful place at the table, Jim is that man.
Trumps uncharacteristic moderation about non-public labor unions reflects his occupational need, as a real estate developer operating in the Northeast, to get along with them. Bob McDevitt, president of UNITE HERE! Local 54 in Atlantic City, said there has never been any kind of evidence of any kind of union animus with any of the entities he operated there.
Given an opportunity earlier this month to revise his view of unions, Trump did not. I have great relationships with unions, he told Newsweeks Matthew Cooper. Trump is himself a union member, collecting a $110,228 annual pension from the Screen Actors Guild, according to his financial disclosure. Cooper has written that the influx of white working-class voters into the GOP since 2000 makes Trumps eclecticism not a weakness, but a strength, because Trump aligns with their opposition to trade deals and cutting Social Security and Medicare.........
The Union Leader has nothing to do with unions. It’s a famous old newspaper that’s been on the right forever, and like all conservative organizations and supporters it will be trashed as not conservative because it didn’t say fawning things about the Donald.