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WOW WOW WOW This got to hurting the DNC

Tam

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Politico reported AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka sent a letter to union officials in August saying that there would be no skyboxes, no delegate meetings and no major contributions on the part of the AFL-CIO at the DNC this year. By contrast, the organization gave an estimated $100,000 to the DNC for the 2008 confab in Denver. This time around the organization will focus on grassroots efforts, but keep the purse strings mostly closed.

Labor adviser Victor Kamber said the Obama campaign can expect support from labor unions but not with the level of excitement seen in 2008. Instead of donating cash directly to the campaign, Kamber said some unions that endorsed Obama "made the decision to pour the money into their own internal efforts to get out the vote."

"Unions are the American public," Kamber said. "They're not a different species." And just as polling shows a divided and less enthusiastic public, "that translates to organized labor the same as any other group virtually."

Kamber expects that despite the "slippage" Obama experienced in the hearts and minds of union workers, labor organizers will still put forth the money to educate members and "remind them what's at stake" in this election.

"The Republicans have made it very clear both by their actions for the last two years as well as their platform," Kamber said, alluding to high-profile legislative campaigns in Wisconsin and Ohio that have aimed to break public sector unions. "They would like to weaken if not destroy organized labor in this country."

WOW The Union bosses must be feeling the pinch after the results of their all out assault on Scott Walker. And the losts they got from Obama when he stopped all the jobs that would have resulted in the XL Pipeline plus the jobs outsoursed in the Oil field when he sent two billion dollars to Brazil and shut down Off Shore drilling in the US. .

This is not good for the DNC and
 

Steve

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labor organizers will still put forth the money to educate members and "remind them what's at stake" in this election.

sounds like a veiled threat... :? how does the seiu "educate ... and remind?

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Tam

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Here in Sask when it looked as if the NDP were going to lose power I heard that the Unions were posting letters on the lockers of union members that had tagged as being Conservatives, telling them that if they didn't vote NDP they would lose their jobs. One election I heard that NDP campaign workers were locked out of Nursing Homes in Weyburn as they were going in and telling the elderly that if the Sask Party won they would be closing the home and tossing everyone out on the street.

When the Unions look as if they are going to be limited in power they will pull every scare tactic they can to control their members and the Democrat supporters COUNT ON IT.
 

hypocritexposer

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Wisconsin public high-school teacher Kristi Lacroix has endured yells, curses, laughs, derision, and threats to her face.

It isn't students who give her grief, though. It's the other adults. One woman spit on Lacroix while she shopped for groceries at Pick'n Save. At Capt. Mike's Beer & Burger Bar, a table of teachers moved when she sat nearby, while another patron suggested someone should assassinate her.

Her sin? Being a teachers union member who opposed the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

As a political conservative, Lacroix had become frustrated when she learned her union supported liberal candidates and agendas. But the Kenosha, Wis., teacher was legally obligated to pay over $100 a month in dues-until Walker brought reforms last year. That November, Lacroix, a member of the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), appeared in a 30-second television ad endorsing Walker. The governor had done the right thing for Wisconsin, she told the camera. The recall attempt felt "a little like sour grapes."

After the commercial aired, Lacroix received a stream of hate mail calling her "idiot," "Judas," and worse. "You support Walker," read one: "Hope you share a jail cell with him."
http://www.worldmag.com/2012/08/teacher_walkout
 
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