A warning shot across the bow – from Bloomberg:
…“It will be more challenging this time than it was last time to motivate our members,” Trumka, 61, said in an interview today at Bloomberg’s offices in Washington.
Trumka, head of the largest U.S. labor organization, said union members are frustrated by “wasted energy” in Washington on issues that he said don’t help workers: “hysteria” about the federal deficit, a White House review of regulations and Obama’s support for free-trade agreements.
Labor leaders said in recent weeks that they would withhold financial support in next year’s election from candidates who haven’t sided with unions consistently…
I remember how in 2008 the unions were convinced they were going to entirely get their way after the election. A Democrat Congress, a Democrat President…”card check” (which would allows unions to legally bully workers in to unionizing) was just the tip of the labor iceberg. They wanted it all – and were sure they were going to get it. What was to stop them? Only the fact that union policies are radioactive and even with a big majority, Democrats were afraid to go out on a limb for the unions. Now the unions have lost their Democrat House, have no ability to pass union legislation through the Senate…and aside from a few absurdities like Obama trying to stop Boeing from opening up a non-union factory in South Carolina, Obama isn’t really doing much to advance the union agenda at the executive level.
I guess Trumka has found out what he was really for – just to provide donations and muscle for the Democrat part of the Ruling Class. Now he’s trying to get conditions on his continued support. Fat chance – once you’ve sold your soul, it is very hard to get it back. Perhaps if Trumka and the rest of the union bosses had concentrated on being pro-worker, things would be different…but as tools of the Democrat party, all they’ve done is tied themselves to a losing cause.
I do wonder – what made anyone on the really think that leftist policies were popular? No, don’t try to tell me “Obama won”: Obama won in spite of his (mostly hidden) socialist views…anyone with any sense at all knows that 2008 was an effort to find the man most unlike President Bush, and Obama turned out to be him. There was no vote in favor of Obamunism…but they all came in to power with dreams of the socialist dawn. Now they’re about to find out just how badly they miscalculated…
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