Trump has single-handedly stopped Coal Country from assuming third-world status.
Trumka can hardly oppose him without annihilating his own base of support.
Trumka is just jerking a few chains. He must have a list of legislation he wants from his hirelings if they seize control of Congress in November. He has no more intention of endorsing Trump than I have of endorsing Dick Durbin.
The EXTORTIONISTS react.....
UAM member here. They represent me but I do not take political advice from them!! MAGA!
The rank and file still remember the paucity of jobs during the Obama administration, and are seeing their family fortunes and well being increase during the early part of the first Trump administration.
As an aside, might the WALL be built by union hands?
No matter what the bosses say, the working man will vote Trump.
Our President is the first since Jackson to stand up for the common man with no regard for the bosses
For the unions, Democrat liberalism far “trumps” much anything else.
The Labor Movement?
More like a bowel movement.
Scott Adams of “Dilbert” fame predicted all of this.
LMAO! Democrats have no scruples. They even shake down their own.
I’m sure it’s going to depend on who the Democrats run.
Don’t hold your breath on the AFL/CIO not endorsing the democrat, whoever it will be....
Won’t matter if it turns out Unions end up doing far better under Trump then they have in decades....
If anything this is just the AFL/CIO leveraging the Dems for more power in the next cycle.
This is a Union Shakedown.
They are trying to push the RATS to doing something to block Trump.
Now members....I highly suspect many are backing Trump.
Same as Reagan in ‘80 and ‘84.
Aside from teachers’ unions, it seems to me it is SOP for union “leaders” to pretend they might consider supporting a non-Democrat. They will will support whatever Dem is running despite what their rank-and-file want.
I worked with a guy who was very conservative until he became a steward for a skilled trades union. After that, he toed the party line and eventually became head of his local. Supporting democrats is a job requirement for a union official.
I doubt it.
:D
I have three unions in our shop. Overwhelmingly they voted Trump (in Illinois of all places). Hard-hats all around work sites had Trump stickers on them.
Our union leaders got the damned message. During and after the primaries, union meetings which used to consist of 100 or more people dwindled down to a dozen.
Every union meeting was a lecture on how we “owe the dem party”. Our members were not having it.
Then, the calls began to grow WITHIN our ranks, of making Illinois a “right to work state”. Yes... WITHIN the union ranks members began to wake up, they wanted to oust the unions, many being sick of paying dues to get nothing in return.
This has scared the hell out of the union bosses.
Democrats will have Trumka murdered before they would let him back Trump... He needs to lay low and have faith that his union members will vote to support Trump and his choices.
That’s enough. Then stay out of it... They really will kill him.
I don’t trust this guy, in fact I revile him, I always have. He reminds me of Joseph Stalin and an old boss that looked like Stalin, that was not good either. He is apparatchik and co-enabler of the swamp w/ the COC and it’s big kahuna. Show me in 2 yrs, and then I’ll believe it.