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- Top Labor Union Rips Obamacare: “if It’s Not Fixed… Then It Needs To Be Repealed”
I Won From CNS: (CNSNews.com) – Terry O’Sullivan, president of the 600,000-plus-member Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA), often referred to as the Laborers’ Union, said that if Obamacare is not fixed, then “it needs...
- Afl-cio To Issue Formal Condemnation Of Obamacare
Urkel Wants You To Bend Over Union members are upset that Obamacare regulations will prevent them from keeping their cadillac plans.The AFL-CIO Executive Council is expected to consider a resolution, subject to fierce internal debate, that will call...
- Trumka-afl/cio Chief Hates Walmart Plan To Hire Vets
This is some of the purest Orwellian ‘tru-speak’ I have ever seen.AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka bashed President Obama and Vice President Biden for “valorizing” Walmart pledges to hire returning veterans.“Walmart’s recent announcement...
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Obama Meets With Union Leaders and MoveOn.org(?) Today at White House From Gateway Pundit: Obama met with union leaders and MoveOn.org(?) today at the White House. Evidently, Obama felt it was important to include the radical leftist group at the...
- Takin' The Sonsabitches Out
Longshoremen storm Wash. state port, damage RR ..LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor...
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LABOR DAY: 40,000 Members of Longshoremen Union Quit AFL-CIO Due To Obamacare
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 disillusion 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.
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- Top Labor Union Rips Obamacare: “if It’s Not Fixed… Then It Needs To Be Repealed”
I Won From CNS: (CNSNews.com) – Terry O’Sullivan, president of the 600,000-plus-member Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA), often referred to as the Laborers’ Union, said that if Obamacare is not fixed, then “it needs...
- Afl-cio To Issue Formal Condemnation Of Obamacare
Urkel Wants You To Bend Over Union members are upset that Obamacare regulations will prevent them from keeping their cadillac plans.The AFL-CIO Executive Council is expected to consider a resolution, subject to fierce internal debate, that will call...
- Trumka-afl/cio Chief Hates Walmart Plan To Hire Vets
This is some of the purest Orwellian ‘tru-speak’ I have ever seen.AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka bashed President Obama and Vice President Biden for “valorizing” Walmart pledges to hire returning veterans.“Walmart’s recent announcement...
- "america" Today
Obama Meets With Union Leaders and MoveOn.org(?) Today at White House From Gateway Pundit: Obama met with union leaders and MoveOn.org(?) today at the White House. Evidently, Obama felt it was important to include the radical leftist group at the...
- Takin' The Sonsabitches Out
Longshoremen storm Wash. state port, damage RR ..LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor...