Posted on 08/25/2016 3:59:15 PM PDT by mdittmar
Listen, nobody needs to tell working people in this state about the union advantage. Collective bargaining transformed Las Vegas, and lifted up the entire entertainment industry. Across Nevada, each and every one of you continues to show us how unionism works. You do it in the building trades. You do it in our schools, hospitals, grocery stores, factories and too many places to name.
When we stand together, wages go up. Consumers have more money to spend. Employers feel competitive pressure to do better for their workers. That’s the strength of collective bargaining and collective action. We have the power to set off a race to the top.
We raise the bar in politics, too. When you and your members get onto the front lines, we build momentum for our issues and elect candidates who share our working family values....
Working people are winning the debate. Now it’s time to win some elections!
We can do it, if we stand together. We need each other. We need your mobilization and groundwork.
We know unity. We practice solidarity. When we stand together, no one can turn us aside.
We built the middle class once, and we’ll do it again.
We build the bridges and the factories. We bake the bread and serve it, too. We drive the rigs and carry the loads. We do it all. We do what it takes. We answer the call. We wake our country up every single day, and we tuck her into bed at night. We don’t mind hard work. We do it with pride. We won’t be faced down or pushed around, and we will NOT be denied....
If you want to know where Donald Trump really stands, ask the brave men and women at Trump Tower in Las Vegas. First, Trump hired a union-busting firm to discourage workers from organizing. The workers won anyway. Then, Trump refused to recognize the union. He dragged his feet. He filed an appeal. He did everything except bargain a first contract. Sisters and brothers, if you actively block our fundamental right to speak up together for better wages and benefits, you will never, ever, ever get our support.
Donald Trump is profoundly unfit to be president. That’s why on November 8th, 2016, working people are going to turn the tables, and tell him, “You’re fired!”...
It seems like yesterday I was in the backyard with my son when he was just 3 or 4 years old. His grandfather had gotten him one of those battery-operated Jeeps. He and his buddy, Chad, were driving around in the backyard.
I was out there too—talking on the phone about what else—the union. Rich must have overheard me, because he drove up and said: “Dad, what’s a union?”
So I told him to try to push his Jeep up the hill. He strained and struggled and eventually got stuck. Then I told his friend Chad to give him a hand. Working together, they were able to do it. I looked right at my son and said: “That’s a union.”
Today, working people are climbing up our own hill. Wages are still too low. Benefits are still too few. And the economic rules remain skewed toward the wealthy few.
We have the power to change that.
So, does Trumka actually know any working people personally?
The biggest parasite that ever lived.
Shrillarity: “When I was young (you know I was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, right?) my mom used to sing me to sleep with that wonderful song, ‘Look for the union label’.... I fell asleep dreaming about what it would be like to dodge sniper fire in Bosnia someday... and I knew that someday I would be the first lesbian, er, female President of the United States”....
LOL! Desperately supporting Hillary!
Rank and file might feel a little differently!
Oh, he’s so clever!
I’m thinking there will be many, MANY union members who will not follow the dictates of their leadership when they decide to vote for Mr. Trump.
TRUMP!
What do ya get?
TRUMP!
TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!!!!!
Trumka worked in the mines. Doesn’t he get that Trump does NOT want mines to be shut ?
I hate to tell Trumpka but he IS DEAD WRONG about his rank and file members EXCEPT teachers unions ALL others WILL vote Trump!!! Trumpka has done NOTHING to keep their jobs at home and this BIG BLOWHARD is in for a RUDE AWAKENING!!!!
Trumpka is a crook that steals from working people!
Only government unions, hotel workers etc.
So, does Trumka actually know any working people personally?
Well, I think that he has worked over some working people. Oops, I meant “persuaded”.
Hey Trumka, speaking about baking, how did that Hostess Company, with Union Bakers contract work out for all of you? Yeah, they closed Hostess.
“The biggest parasite that ever lived.”
Do you know the difference between Richard Trumka and Hillary Clinton?
Me either.
There's nothing more odious than an ingrate.
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