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.”
Big Labor’s AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has visited the White House over 30 times, appears in Administration web pages, and works with the the President of the Party of European Socialist Poul Nyrup Rassmusen to add new taxes on all financial transactions. But, what is this Big Labor boss doing to encourage investment and job creation for U.S. Workers? Trumka and other Big Labor bosses have been using their clout gained through forced unionism to promote their personal ideologies rather than representing union members for decades.
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