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Big Labor's Legacy of Violence

Barbara B Wrote: Sep 04, 2010 2:13 PM

It's sad that legalized "Mafia" style Unions are still among us, and the current administration is in their back pockets. Look at Sterns at the White House more then any other visitor. Why was he there all the time? Who audits the Unions? Does it's members even know where their dues are going? How can they force their members to vote one way(thier way)? That is why I can't believe that Card Check can even be legal in a democracy. Why would their members have to show their vote? That is nothing but intimidation. This not the US of A when we could allow this to happen and our own Congress and President wants Card Check to go through. What has happened to our wonderful country now filled with deceit and corruption?

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Big Labor's Legacy of Violence

To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in Milwaukee and pose as champions of the working class. Bad move. Trumka's organizing record is a shameful reminder of the union movement's violent and corrupt foundations.

The new Obama/AFL-CIO power alliance -- underwritten with $40 million in hard-earned worker dues -- is a midterm shotgun marriage of Beltway brass knuckles and Big Labor brawn. Trumka warmed up his rhetorical muscles this past week with full-frontal attacks on former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He indignantly accused her of "getting close to calling for violence" and...

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