Hypocrites.**** Labor supported both Obama and Obamacare.****
B**** ** ** http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/01/Citing-Obamacare-40-000-Longshoremen-Quit-the-AFL-CIO **** CITING OBAMACARE, 40,000 LONGSHOREMEN QUIT THE AFL-CIO****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<http://www.scribd.com/doc/164542066/ILWU-Disaffiliation-8-29-2013> 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<http://www.labornotes.org/2013/08/longshore-union-quits-afl-cio> 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<http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm> of the US workforce.**** ** ** ** ** __._,_.___ __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
