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.
I’m sure Trumka has gotten an earful from the rank-and-file.
“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. “
I agree. This is a powerplay by Trumka within the Demonrat party against the coastal free trade gentry liberals.
However, outraged Trump hating liberals may go mental and start fighting with organized labour.
For an old veteran Marxist labor agitator like Trumka to even think of endorsing Trump you’d have to believe in unicorns and fairies.
He hired to veteran communists for key positions in the AFL-CIO, Karen Ackerman (Political Director) and Karen Nussbaum (of 9 to 5, etc). Both were amongst the first Marxists to go to Cuba on trips sponsored by the SDS/Cuban-created Venceremos Brigade (1969).
There was a major report published by (if I remember correctly), the House Internal Security Committee in 1972 or 72 about the VB which had the passenger manifest lists for the first 5 trips and Ackerman and Nussbaum, plus key leftist members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Vietnam (VVAW), were on them.
Trumka supported numerous Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party fronts and causes during the 80’s during his rise within the United Mineworkers Union. Was it just political expediency/opportunism, or more likely, an ideological affinity to their Marxism?
Skunks can change the color of their coats but they still stink the same.