Joe Biden threatens ‘personal price’ if business leaders oppose attempts to unionize

New York Post ^ | September 7, 2020 | Steven Nelson

[karpov]

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Monday threatened to impose “a personal price” on business leaders if they resist attempts to unionize during his presidency.

Biden made the threat as he vowed to be the most pro-union president in history during a Labor Day webstream with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

“I’m going to hold company executives personally liable for interfering with workers who are attempting to unionize. It’s not enough just to have their corporations pay a fine. If they’re part of the problem, they are going to pay a personal price,” Biden said.

“I’m going to be the strongest labor president you have ever had,” the former vice president said.

Biden urged a $15 national minimum wage and a ban on right to work laws, which prohibit the forced payment of union dues in 27 states.

Biden spoke after Trump held a press conference slamming Biden on labor issues, particularly for his record on trade deals and outsourcing to China. Trump often hits Biden’s support for China joining the World Trade Organization and for trade deals that led to outsourcing, such as the recently replaced NAFTA.

The pitches to union workers are especially significant in Rust Belt swing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which narrowly broke for Trump in 2016.

Biden, a former Delaware senator born in Scranton, Pa., invoked his family connection to labor unions and promised to proudly used the word “union” as president.

“My uncle in Scranton, Uncle Ed, used to say, ‘Joey, you’re labor from belt buckle to shoe sole’,” Biden said. “I’ve never been afraid to say the word ‘union.’ … You can be sure you’ll be hearing that word ‘union’ plenty of times if I’m in the White House. The words of a president matter. ‘Union.'”

[ClearCase_guy]

Exactly right.

I recall having many teachers and professors discuss communism. Some of them seemed to like the idea, others not so much. But it was a frequent topic -- no private property, dictatorship of the proletariat, end of the class war, etc. Whether people liked it or not, there was the idea that you ought to know what Communism was all about.

But schools never seemed to do that with Fascism. What is Fascism? It's the 'big meanie' was about as much education as I ever got on that topic.

But you've accurately described what Fascism really is, and it's basically China today, and we're just inches away from it now. People don't see it because they were never taught about it.

[econjack]

Another example of Joe selling favors to get a few votes. He’d sell his own mother to get another vote. Not only can he not put a coherent thought together, when he does blurt out a sentence, it’s to offer to buy someone’s vote. Disgusting.