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Posted on 04/26/2016 2:25:04 PM PDT by Nacho Bidnith
US unions plan attack on Donald Trump in attempt to derail presidential bid
Concerned labor group leaders are organizing ad campaigns and phone banks as Trump’s populist message on trade and jobs draws in union voters
The prospect of a Donald Trump nomination has labor leaders scrambling to hold the line as the Republican frontrunner’s appeal to disaffected working-class voters threatens to upset the traditional political calculus.
The majority of America’s almost 15 million unionized workers can be usually be relied upon to back the Democratic candidate in a presidential year, but leaders are concerned by Trump’s populist message on trade and jobs – and his insistence that union workers are just one of many groups on a long list of those he claims “love” him.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I will never forget the words of my daughter’s longtime former Union activist Father in-law telling his son, my son in law, another Union booster, on the 2008 election of Obama after his promising to transform America,
“You are going to get a change all right. Just not the one you want.”
Was he ever right.
they’ll simply blow their own organization’s loyalty levels to hell - unions have not prospered under Obama
The union effort will be no more effective than the GOP establishment’s efforts and the mainstream media efforts. Do they not understand that no one trusts them any more?
Most of the union workers will probably support Trump. But the top union leaders don’t give a damn about the workers, as long as their pockets get well greased. This is the “leaders” talking.
Ah, episode 17 of The Establishment Strikes Back.
I was a member of the AFL-CIO till the day I retired. Me and two other AFL-CIO retirees I know, are all voting Trump.
Will the unions leadership start handing out “Don’t vote for Trump” bats...?
Yeah well, I am hearing a lot of the rank and file are voting for Trump.
That’s what I’m praying is happening, everywhere....that union members, and especially retirees are going to vote for Trump.
Good for you...and your union buddies for voting Trump.
Look at the massive crowd Trump drew in Wilkes-Barre, a union dominated town. He did well last week in upstate New York.
I don’t know what a Trumper is, but I heard yesterday that supposedly 16,000 border patrol agents support Donald Trump.
“We can’t be fooled,” Richard Trumka, president of AFL-CIO, ...”
sure, Trumka should campaign for Hillary based on her support for gun control, anti-hunting, closing down the coal industry, opposing Keystone XL, support for NAFTA, GATT, WTF, MFN China, Fast Track, TPP and TTIP, creeps in female bathrooms and locker rooms, gay marriage, and coastal gentry elite liberal snobbery...
should be an easy sell !
Yup, and Trump is the only one who understand construction, manufacturing, finance, international trade, currency, and business in general. Cruz and Kasich are bed wetting politicians.
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This article is BS!
A year ago the big unions let it be known to all their business agents and stewards that they were quite OK with Trump, but were not going to openly support him because they thought it would negatively affect his candidacy.
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Maybe we will see the Union Thug leaders removed from power while we remove the GOPe from power this year.
Ooh, Donald’s a real threat to their supposed automatons.
“I’m in a union, and I voted for Trump today.”
“Plenty of the guys I work with are voting for him as well.”
We have younger relatives who hire and manage so called blue collar guys in Unions.
They estimate a a very large % are for Trump and will vote for him, to protect their jobs, families and country.
“Trump isn’t interested in solving the problems he yells and swears about. He delivers punch lines, but there’s nothing funny about them.”
Well this guy is just another stupid angry democrat with no sense of humor.
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