Obama Levels Cheap Shot At Unions - Again

[nadinbrzezinski]

77. But trumka needs the majority of presidents from local labor councils

to go YYAAAYYY boss.

This is one of the last working democracies. in the country. I do not expect that to become official until the national meeting of the AFL-CIOs, and then you have the SEIU to contend with, which broke with the AFL a few years back. Though I expect them to go there faster than the AFL-CIOs by the way, or AFSCME.

I do not discount what Trumka said. I think he can get the necessary votes, and I think there is an absolute danger that the Labor Councils will turn very local and abandon national politicians in droves.

But until those steps absolutely happen, and even after they happen, those same national politicians will continue to ignore the 11 percent of the American work force. Never mind that they have more power to turn people to voting than their absolute numbers say they should.

With the 15 and a Union movement, this is why that scares the ownership class, labor might turn those horrific numbers around... hug your SEIU for that, most labor councils are not participating in that mess. (Too much inside baseball)

This is precisely the political calculus at play. (And I should go back to the fracking articles, but that is another story).