Bloomberg: Unions Drawing Line in Sand With Hillary Clinton and Democrats on Trade Deal
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-29/unions-drawing-line-in-sand-with-hillary-clinton-and-democrats-on-trade-deal
May 29, 2015 10:33 AM CDT
As the clash moves toward a vote in the House of Representatives, the union is beginning to pressure Democrats directly
By Emily Greenhouse,
The AFL-CIO, the largest labor federation in the United States, is typically allied with Democrats, but today finds itself moving away from the Democratic president over Obama’s proposed trade pact.
In an interview with Susan Page of USA Today, Richard Trumka, the union’s president, on Friday warned Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton that the wrong position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership could cost her much union support.
“She's going to have to answer that,” Trumka said of her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “I think she won't be able to go through a campaign without answering that and people will take it seriously and it will affect whether they vote for her or don't vote for her.”
As the clash moves toward a vote in the House of Representatives—which Trumka predicted would fail—the union is beginning to pressure Democrats directly. The AFL-CIO, the New York Times reported Friday, has launched an aggressive ad campaign against Democrats who support the president on the pact.
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Sanders response:
http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/02/bernie-sanders-on-the-tpp-not-another-nafta/
I rest my case, I support the man who supports me, and my union brothers and sisters, he has not sat on the side lines hemming and hawing
is the reason that I do not trust this woman.
Her evolution is based in part on my opinion when she was a Goldwater Girl.
I am reading three books by Rick Perlstein, about the republican machine during Goldwater , Nixon and Reagan, and it brought back many memories about why I have always been a democrat, anti-draft, war, pro -union, civil liberties, environment, ect.....
They (republicans) will do whatever it takes to subvert the Constitution, subvert any means possible to gain power at all means, and to hell with everyone else, and for some reason I see a façade in her, and this election is going to be about trust----------and I mean trust.
When she was on the board of directors at Wal Mart she hemmed and hawed on being questioned on why she didn't do more for the worker, men and woman.
And most people do not realize that she was there when they started to remove the made in America brand and replace it with foreign made products.
She did some other good things, for woman and others items while in the senate, but her position with the worker has not in opinion been totally with us.
The third way position gave us NAFTA-----------and then we have gotten the false promise
But her sitting on that board says a lot about her position of wage and unions, middle class, ect..... and then your fine piece on her position, which I thank you very much, truly says everything about her waffling and trying to have it both ways ------------------- its not going to happen this time.
Like Warren and Sanders, Brown ect.... have said many times the system is rigged and its rigged for the rich and the powerful.
Again Thank you for the opposition research
