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Just days after the big women’s march, the leaders of the building trades unions in the US held a nice sit-down with Donald Trump, helping to give him cover for his anti-worker and bigoted policies. It should come as no surprise. Back in November, Doug McCarron, president of the Carpenters Union, sent a letter to the union’s membership saying that he was going to try to work with Trump. (See here <https://oaklandsocialist.com/2016/12/15/carpenters-union-leader-we-will-work-with-trump/comment-page-1/#comment-7738> for the letter plus a translation.) As the letter makes clear, their position is that they favor any construction, anywhere, any time, just so long as they get a cut – through the dues money – for it. We should not be surprised if they actually support building the wall along the Mexican border! In fact, there is a long history to this sort of thing. Back in 1981, when Reagan was president, the Carpenters Union president invited President Reagan to address their general convention in Chicago. This was right in the midst of Reagan’s busting of the air traffic controllers’ strike. The California delegation wanted to walk out when he spoke, so the union president got them all together and laid down the law. “We’re going to have to work with this president,” he said. In other words, he was wanting to cut his own deal with Reagan and leave the other unions hanging, starting with the air traffic controllers. It was what amounted to political scabbing. Now, Doug McCarron and the others are doing the same thing but worse. read more: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/01/25/building-trades-leaders-meet-with-trump/ -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
