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Title: FUCK OBAMA - Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern ... -Longshoremen-Quit-the-AFL-CIO
Published: Sep 3, 2013
Author: Warner Todd Houston
Post Date: 2013-09-03 05:08:20 by noone222
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Views: 145
Comments: 5
In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation. In an August 29 letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, ILWU President Robert McEllrath cited quite a list of grievances as reasons for the dissolution of their affiliation, but prominent among them was the AFL-CIO's support of Obamare. "We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along," McEllrath wrote in the letter to Trumka. The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their "Cadillac" healthcare plan. The Longshoreman leader said, "President Obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits." But, regardless of that promise, the President has pushed for just such a tax and Trumka and the AFL-CIO bowed to political pressure lining up behind Obama's tax on those plans. McEllrath also went on to say that they support stronger immigration reform than the AFL-CIO is supporting. One ILWU committeeman was even harsher on both the AFL-CIO and the President. ILWU Coast Committeeman Leal Sundet criticized the AFL-CIO telling LaborNotes.com that Trumka was marching "in lockstep" with Obama both on the "Cadillac healthcare tax" as well as immigration. Sundet slammed Obama's immigration plan saying it is "designed to give [only] highly-paid workers a real path to citizenship." Private sector unions have fallen to an all time low participation rate in the US workforce. Unionized workers now account for only 11.3 percent of the US workforce. Poster Comment: D.C. has just about fucked America comatose ...
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#1. To: All (#0)
No sane American owes any loyalty to the current D.C. trespassers or the nig- nog (P) resident.
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood’s school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. – Plato (429-347 BC)
Not quite over Obamacare ..... www.longshoreshippingnews...safilliates-from-afl-cio/ Among the MANY reasons given, the ILWU complained about AFL support for Obamacare despite the fact that it imposes a small tax on existing group health plans - something ILWU takes very seriously. But the bulk of the motivation for the separation was that the AFL was permitting other unions to siphon off some of ILWU's membership. Also mentioned was that the AFL had not supported a more liberal immigration reform proposal.
Will the longshoremen be going back to work as scabs? My understanding is that you can't get that kind of work without belonging to a union. I've never had a union job, anywhere. IMO, unions only make it harder to get work, as they are a closed shop and even apprenticeships require knowing somebody already in the union. John Howard says: There are 4 schools of economics: Democrats don't mind war as long as they can have big government. Republicans don't mind big government as long as they can have war. Your guess is as good as mine ! Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood’s school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. – Plato (429-347 BC)
The pressure from the membership is probably getting to the point where even the insulated union bosses can't ignore it any more. They sense the shift in the wind and need to jump aboard so they can pretend to have been against this all along, otherwise they will be tossed overboard unceremoniously by the membership.
#2. To: noone222 (#0)
#3. To: noone222 (#0)
Marxism: steal everything
Keynesianism: steal by counterfeiting whenever needed
Chicago school (Milton Friedman): steal by counterfeiting at a steady, predictable rate
Austrians: don't steal
'Wiped off the Map' – The Rumor of the Century
#4. To: PnbC (#3)
Will the longshoremen be going back to work as scabs?
#5. To: noone222 (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
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