Union-Only Port Terminal Suspends Operations
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka apparently has never seen a group of radical leftists he didn’t like. With members of the Communist Party and other socialist organizations protesting Wall Street for the past few weeks, Trumka hailed those who “occupy” Wall Street.
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
One longtime IAFF official who is now in the spotlight for his crass denigration of “two-hatters” -- that is, professional firefighters who also serve as volunteers -- is Pennsylvania Democrat politician Bob Brooks.
Incoming NEA President Princess Moss: Teachers Must Be Full-Time Political Activists