AFL-CIO's Trumka at SMWIA: Which Side Are They On?

[Mischelle999]

Obama 2012!!! Thanks Rich..Good luck from the Labor movement in Australia! We have a great lady PM who has a Labor background..A WOMAN and also LABOR member..Life is good.;)

[dceamon]

God Bless you brother Rich

[donsmithshow]

Hey Rich, let's see how many union employees are left when there are no more profits. It's actually pretty simple math that most of us learned in school. At least before the unions ruined the education system as well.

[bulldogbell1980]

Keep giving money to this guy so he can socialize the world, then there will be real incentives to being an everyday worker.

[jeffleszczynski]

Richard your new name is DICK........

[raskel71]

My fellow Union members, our Union "Leaders " have taken us hostage, and forced us to support their goals of destroying the very foundation of a free country. I have no doubt I will loss my job, future retirement and face violence for posting this. All I ask is that you acknowledge your own thoughts. We wear Had Hats with USA Flags & have shirts with "America First" on them. While our gov./union officials sign NAFTA & CAFTA, TAKING AWAY OUR WORK

IT IS NOT ABOUT JOBS-IT"S CONTROL of U.

[raskel71]

As a member, I hear a speech made by a communist. If a Union Worker disagrees which the "established union leadership" he will be blackballed and threatened. The "Union" was for the worker many years ago, but now it is about control of the worker by the "Leadership". Good men & women are being subjugated to the "Union"cause, which unfortunately requires us to forfeit our individual rights to the collective(directed) common good. Marx, Hobbes,Hitler & Moa preached this very belief. U Decide.

[mrrepublican1234]

He look more like Joe Stalin.

[dwcorless]

Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) was for the EFCA when there was no chance of it passing, last year. This year, when there is a real chance of passage, she is suddenly against it. How could so much have changed?

[ellej28]

It is time the unions took those to task that have refused to support the Employee Free Choice Act. They have helped candidates every election and it is time they took a stand. Employee Free Choice Act allows am employee to become a member of a union without fear of reprisals. People who have wanted to unionize have been fired, threatened, lost seniority, just because they wanted to join a union. Now is the time to stand up for the unions! They helped you, now you should support them!

[D0ntClickThisNam3]

Don't click here!

[keyboardcatmoon]

Since 1980 we have seen capitalism deregulated. Wealthy individuals getting tax cuts. Wealthy individuals being able to hide money overseas. People like Bernie Madoff getting away with schemes while the SEC enjoys their honeymoon. Rex Tillerson is the new Rockefeller, the new robber baron. The SEC needs to be stronger, not weaker. Freedom creates greed.

Fuck the libertarians and fuck the republicans.

[Traveler2112]

Why should ANY AMERICAN have to choose "A SIDE" in this great country. That is a pathetic. True Americans should look at and learn about EACH INDIVIDUAL and then make an educated choice not for a party but for themselves. I am disgusted with partisan politics.

[Traveler2112]

added after "EACH INDIVIDUAL"

PROPOSAL

[audioflog]

here's the plan:

have the union make ridiculous demands.

fire the unioners.

hire the illegals for less.

have the unioners bitch that the

illegals "took 'er jobs!"

[robert7232]

Oh yeah,

"Workers of the World, Unite!"

Karl Marx

[robert7232]

The unions are a racket. I have worked on PLENTY of union jobs and there was RAMPANT corruption and lots of good buddy back door poiltics and pay-offs behind the scenes. And you union members know exactly what I'm talking about!

Big business has it's problems but unions are just as bad in their own right.

Only a union can justify having five people hired to do the work that 2 guys should be able to handle.

[jiggakilla666]

Douche

[revelwoodie]

Amen. It's about time. I used to say that a third party bid is suicide for the Left, because it guarantees a Republican victory. But what good is winning if we don't get anything out of the Democrats either?

National Health Care is the most basic core principle of the political Left. If the Dems won't deliver it, they don't get my support any more. The Republicans are in the toilet, so if a third party movement on the Left ever had a chance, it's now.

[jbc4re]

vote em out in the next primary

[Jelperman]

FUCKIN' A!

Primary their sorry asses!

[sliznim]

you tell those blue frauds

[KevinWalshVox]

Thanks, Labor, for looking out for the best interests of ALL Americans. As a member of two labor unions myself, I support this 100%.

[cdodge1]

amen! right on! we need REAL democrats working for the interests of working men and women in this country.

[knixphan]

Seconded!

No support for conservadems come next primary!

Vote for real progressives. People before profits!

[sweetandexcellent]

Right on! We don't need blue dogs who do not work for the people and vote for health care. What good are they???

They are republican good, the party of NO!

[ibilldavis]

the unions sold their sole to the devil.

[nycomedyradio]

They sold fish?

[Roystah]

like how the Republicans and the Blue Dogs sold their SOULS to private insurance companies? Between the two I'd pick the devil anyday.

[sburks]

Sold their sole huh? Would that be the scaly kind that swims in the water or the ones that are on the bottoms of their shoes?

[sliznim]

shoes.

[ibilldavis]

???

[ibilldavis]

I meant soul, not sole, forgive me, I am a product of the Chicago Public Schools.

[phpimen]

Interesting, I wonder why NAM would urgfe its supporters to come here to call people names? Maybe because they're worried about what the Blue Dogs would do once their biggest contributors stop donating?

[JaneHallNC]

What happens to the Unions when the big companies go down the tubes???

[JaneHallNC]

This is thug tactics at its best..............

[Roystah]

thug tactics? withholding donations from groups that don't support your causes is thug tactics?

damn...logic can be so hard sometimes.

[thatonetallguy2]

nice job Paul...