AFL-CIO Head Urges Unions Not to Follow Members' Wishes for Presidential Nods

AP ^ | 2/24/03 | Leigh Strope

[cajun-jack]

someone please tell me when a democrat has ever helped any union member?? Helping them lose their money doesn't count.

[CyberCowboy777]

All parties

Tariffs - protect union jobs

[uncitizen]

During the 2000 election there was talk of the Teamsters going for Bush. So maybe there is more to that "hold off" statement than meets the eye.

[cajun-jack]

abolishing the epa and osha would protect a lot of jobs....all politicians, no matter what their walk of life, becomes an expert on everything once they are elected and will pass laws screwing anyone as long as some lobbyist pony's up enough cash. The only difference between politicians and the "lot lizzards" at truck stops is....at least the "lizzards" admit they're whores.

[nofriendofbills]

Sweeney said he wants unions "to stay unified and not to make any early decisions until they have as good an idea as possible as to where their members stand."

Your headline doesn't match what the article says, you are guilty of deliberate distortion...in plain English you are a liar.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Jean S]

Check the source, this is the title AP is using.
I do not lie and I do not make up titles.

[prairiebreeze]

Yes! The Teamsters were furious at the Dems about the failure of the Alaska Wildlife Refuge drilling bill too.

As I recall, they made some serious comments like "we'll remember this at election time"!

[prairiebreeze]

Title and post looks fine to me.

Prairie

[cajun-jack]

now..now....who pissed in your cheerios this morning....if you ain't got sense enough to leave the guard on a machine...well, then he probably would be a friend of yours. Everybody down south doesn't have gaps between their teeth, chew terbacky, have hair on their knuckles or 6 toes on their left feet and sleep with their cousins, BUT we do have sense enough to know how to work without the goobermint holding our hands and changing our pampers everytime we git skeered....

I'll bet you dad quit having sex with your mom after you came along because he was afraid he would mess up again.

[Admin Moderator]

Follow the source link back to the TBO site. You will see that this poster used the same title that they did.

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[FreeperinRATcage]

Don't worry...looks kike he got a little involuntary vacation.

[TheAngryClam]

Note that Hoffa isn't a trucker, but a lawyer.

I love how unions aren't even run by the employees they purport to represent. Nothing but a big leeching operation by the Democratic Party on the backs of the working American.

[pfflier]

Maybe he ought to tell the rank and file, that their dues are supporting ANSWER and Ramsey Clark's commie friends.

[arasina]

Does anyone know what the heck a "working family" is? I get so tired of hearing that term used by the Left. Is it a code word for union members? What about all their constituents who are on the dole? Would you use "working" to define that group? hah.

[Magoo]

I am a non union conservative minded working class hourly laborer. I support the Republican/Conservative ideology. I do however have grave concern about any action taken in congress to strip the 1938 Fair Labor act of it's teeth. All proposed legeslation to trim away at it comes from the republican side of the aisle. If legeslation such as the 40 hour work week were successfully changed as has been proposed, it would have an immediate and terribly negative impact on my family's lifestyle and well being. Bush is a Neoconservative Read; (Classic Liberal) and this legislation might be vetoed by him. Hence it has not come out of commitee for two years. We know Clinton would have vetoed it.

You sound like and elitist who is out of touch with reality.

[uncitizen]

Excellent point! A family is either a working family or a welfare family, no?