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Trumka puts the democrats on notice
Posted: May 20, 2011
Evidently, he's not happy lately.
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka will use a lunchtime speech at the National Press Club on Friday to push back against the “destructive” austerity narrative driving Washington and urge lawmakers to create jobs, protect pensions and provide health care for everyone.
“We’ll only win investments in our future if we again embrace the idea that we are one national community,” Trumka will say, according to advance excerpts of the speech provided to POLITICO. “That our very identity is bound up with the promise that all of us have a voice-in the workplace, at the ballot box-and that we are responsible in a deep sense for each other. The fabric of our government, our democratic republic, is about making that responsibility for each other real.”
And Trumka suggested that the powerful union is ready to take on anyone — even a traditional Democratic ally, if necessary — who doesn’t join the chorus singing from the labor songbook.
“We’ll be less inclined to support people in the future that aren’t standing up and actually supporting job creation and the type of things that we’re talking about. It doesn’t matter what party they come from. It will be a measuring stick,” Trumka told POLITICO during an interview in his spacious eighth floor office.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55368.html#ixzz1MveOldh4
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Sounds like those socialist "Union THUGS" - are at it again...sm
[ In Reply To ..]We all know Corporate America is just waiting for the right time to shower the people with love. Trickle on down, please.
“Our national conversation right now is in a destructive place and the debate that we’re having is really over the moral character of the country . and it’s just going in the wrong direction with all of this cuts and all of this talk that we can’t afford secure jobs, good jobs anymore. We can’t afford health care. We can’t afford pensions,” he said. “The nation, right now, we feel poor. But we’re not, we’re a rich nation. We feel poor because most of the money is going to the people at the top. And yet the debate’s about how we can give more tax cuts to corporations who have had two years of record profits.”
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka
Health care, pensions, good jobs? Sounds too much like socialism to me ;)
Health care, pensions, good jobs sounds like what - I remember as the AMERICAN DREAM.nm
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Have you researched Trumka's background? - Backwards Typist
[ In Reply To ..]He's no angel. In fact, far from it. He advocates violence quietly.
Installed as AFL-CIO president in 2009 in his home town of Pittsburgh, he's given the green light to all concerned that he and other union leaders are ready to rumble. During his years as United Mine Workers president and then as AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer, he enabled union violence and corruption with open encouragement of intimidation and deception.
During a multi-state coal miners strike organized by the UMW back in 1993, Trumka ordered more than 17,000 workers to walk off their jobs. He was determined that nobody would find work in a mine without paying dues or agency fees to the union. He explicitly told strikers to "kick the shit out of" employees and mine operators resisting union demands. UMW enforcers obliged him. They vandalized homes, fires shots at a mine office, and cut power to another mine, temporarily trapping 93 miners underground.
During this strike,a union worker murdered heavy equipment operator Eddie York, a nonunion contractor, shooting him in the back of the head in his pickup truck as he drove past strikers at a Logan County, West Virginia work site then pelted his rescuers with rocks. Rather than apologize, Trumka offered the following rationalization: "I'm saying if you strike a match and put your finger in, common sense tells you you're going to burn your finger." In other words, Eddie York had it coming.
in April 1998 he silently approved criminal violence by loyalists against dissenters at a rally in Bentleyville, Pa. An eyewitness account put it this way: "Within minutes a group of UMWA officials and their supporters attacked the protesting miners, ripping leaflets and protest signs from their hands. Several miners were punched, knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly." Trumka, while not openly endorsing the violence, offered no words of condemnation either.
Trumka's corruption includes a pair of money-laundering schemes, among a half-dozen totaling $885,000 that helped re-elect Teamsters General President Ron Carey in 1996 over his close rival, James P. Hoffa. The election eventually was invalidated. Trumka had laundered $150,000 from the union through the AFL-CIO to a political advocacy group, Citizen Action, which in turn routed $100,000 of the money to the Carey campaign. Trumka had participated in another illegal arrangement in which he either contributed or solicited $50,000 in order to bankroll the Carey campaign.
I'm sure I could find more if I wanted to but I think the above info is enough to show that he really has no place running a union. I can only imagine what 2012 election will bring and it's not going to be pretty.
Research THIS - Union Thug
[ In Reply To ..]The Politics of a Dangerous Business
Jeff Goodell, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, is the author of “Big Coal: the Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future” and “How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate.”
There are two basic reasons why mine safety reforms have failed. The first is simply that tunneling deep into the earth to extract coal is a dangerous business.
The real lesson of this tragedy may be that the best way to make mines safer is to make politics cleaner.
The coal industry likes to tout its improved safety record in recent years — and it’s true, the number of fatalities in coal mines today is far lower than it was several decades ago. But the main reason for this decline is a shift in mining practices: the majority of coal in the U.S. now comes from big surface mines, which are much cheaper and safer to operate (although in Appalachia, this shift has lead to the environmentally devastating practice known as mountaintop removal mining).
Underground coal mining is especially risky in Appalachia, where they have been mining coal for 150 years, and where much of the easy-to-get coal has long been mined out. What’s left is increasingly difficult and dangerous to extract, even with today’s improved mining technology. Simply put, if you’re mining coal in these kinds of conditions, you’re going to have accidents, and workers are going to die.
The second reason mine safety reforms have failed is the political power of the coal industry. After every coal mining tragedy, there are passionate calls for new safety rules and regulations. After those reforms are proposed, they are fought over in Congress and state Legislatures, where politically connected coal operators make the case that the reforms are too onerous, too expensive, too difficult to implement. And so they are watered down, loopholes are inserted, timelines extended.
This is particularly true in West Virginia, where Don Blankenship, the head of Massey Energy, the coal company that owns the Upper Big Branch mine, holds sway over state politics there like one of the old coal barons of yore. In West Virginia, you mess with Don at your peril. If you want to know why a mine with a sorry safety record like Upper Big Branch wasn’t shut down long ago, that’s your answer.
Indeed, the real lesson of this tragedy may be that the best way to make mines safer is to make politics cleaner.
I can tell you one thing about coal mines (a little history for ya) - Backwards Typist
[ In Reply To ..]Where I live, coal was discovered in 1790 and used for blacksmithing since 1795 locally. That's 221 years! It was marketed to other areas of the country since 1825. In fact, the Workingmen's Benevolent Association (now known as the UMW) got its start here because of the conditions the workers and their families had to endure.
There has been only 2 deaths in the past 50 years and one was because a Euclid tipped over the bank and rolled (driver error). Most coal around here is surface mined, which is ugly to see, BUT laws are in place that the owners must restore the area after mining, filling them back in and planting the area with trees and grass. About 50 years ago, there were coal slag banks (the crap left over from the coal) as high as the mountains, but since that law has been in place, there is only one that I know about. There is a slag generation plant that uses those mountains and provides electricity and steam heat for the towns around it at a lower cost than mega-electric plants.
The deep mines are mostly a thing of the past here. They are strip mines because the company doesn't want to put their workers at risk and because they are absolutely ugly to see. Most are now hidden from main traffic areas now. The only deep mines left are small independents that are family-run; i.e., 5 or 6 people work there and all family.
Appalachia coal is bituminous coal which is not as clean and so the laws and regulations are mainly for those coal holes. The government will never learn the difference between bituminous and anthracite coal and that's a shame. Anthracite coal is cleaner burning and strip mining is not as dangerous.
I watched COAL on Spike TV and I could see the difference immediately between their coal and anthracite. Their coal looked more like anthracite slag. Anthracite is deep black and shiny, almost like a a shiny onyx stone.
So there's the short history lesson for today. Hope you enjoyed it. :-)
How about a 21st century comment on Don Blankenship - Massey Energy, sm
[ In Reply To ..]scalping mountains or progressing BEYOND coal to cleaner and greener? Got one of those laying around anywhere?
Can't discuss something I'm not familiar with. Sorry. - Backwards Typist
[ In Reply To ..]Care to show me a picture or link so I can see what you are talking about?
All I know about Massey is that it was a crime what happened in WV with the miners. They should go to jail.
Anyway, how did Trumka posting turn into Massey discussion anywho?
Here's your picture... - sm
[ In Reply To ..]"Care to show me a picture or link so I can see what you are talking about?"
You brought up incidents that occurred during a coal miners' strike. Differing opinions are presented in response to "YOUR" thread,in order to balance out your anti union rhetoric.
I will refrain from posting here(like some seem to take so much pleasure in) long, drawn out quotes from sources that back up my pov.
Sleep well, those coal companies - are taking GOOOOD care of you.
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He certainly WAS NOT responsible for this - sm
[ In Reply To ..]The news at the Upper Big Branch mine about 30 miles south of Charleston brought the death toll to 29 in the country’s worst mine disaster in four decades.
And, by all means research this guy - while you\'re at it
[ In Reply To ..]Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy, the coal company that owns the Upper Big Branch mine.
Now, spin it so he looks like a red-blooded capitalist and the union officals look like violent thugs.
Scabs - nm
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Add the politics of mountaintop removal mining - to your reading list. sm
[ In Reply To ..]As I recall, one of the last steaming piles W laid in his out box was gutting protections from mountaintop removal mining by essentially repealing the Stream Buffer Rule, thus green-lighting the dumping of rocks, dust, sludge and debris directly on top of fresh water mountain streams. Between 2001 and 2005 alone, 535 miles were added to the previous 2000 miles of mountain stream burial by Ws administrations refusal to enforce existing regulations. Repeal of this rule will add another 1000 miles to those stats in the not-so-distant future. The result has been accelerated erosion, flooding the destruction of local communities and the disruption of entire ecosystems in its path. The haunting images of missing mountaintops across Appalachia bring tears to my eyes every time I see them. Then there is that unresolved matter of Grand Canyon toxic uranium mining.
As far as I am concerned, the forces that oppose these practices on whatever level, whether they come from unions, workers, communities or a rare politician or two from time to time, need to employ any means necessary to stop this utter insanity. As an added bonus, clean energy initiatives = new jobs, and plenty of them, I might add.
Health care, pensions and good jobs. How DARE he? - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Trumka's comments, minus the title and editorial comments inserted by the author, indicate his unwillingness to support PEOPLE "that aren’t standing up and actually supporting job creation...It doesn’t matter what party they come from." This is a fairly benign generic statement which most democrats I know would endorse without reservation.
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