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| Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO |
| 2013-09-03 |
| [BREITBART] In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation. In an August 29 letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, ILWU President Robert McEllrath cited quite a list of grievances as reasons for the dissolution of their affiliation, but prominent among them was the AFL-CIO's support of Obamare. "We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along," McEllrath wrote in the letter to Trumka. The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their "Cadillac" healthcare plan. The Longshoreman leader said, "President B.O. ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits." But, regardless of that promise, the President has pushed for just such a tax and Trumka and the AFL-CIO bowed to political pressure lining up behind Obama's tax on those plans. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 These are all beer, cigarette, cheesesteak and baloney sandwich 400 pounders. No health plan, on anybody's dime, can overcome their chosen lifestyle... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-09-03 18:05 |
| #8 Pinto |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2013-09-03 17:17 |
| #7 Wait until you go from Cadillac version to Chevy Vega version of healthcare before complaining. |
| Posted by: airandee 2013-09-03 12:00 |
| #6 Took them long enough to wake-up from the "Kool-Aid" treatment, didn't it ? We still have 3 years and two months left of the Big O, wonder what other "union" organizations will wake up in the next few months ? |
| Posted by: Au Auric 2013-09-03 11:58 |
| #5 They're breaking my heart. /sarc |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-03 11:36 |
| #4 The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their "Cadillac" healthcare plan. ILWU - "Cadillac" limousine communists. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-09-03 05:35 |
| #3 If national Repub's were intelligent (big if, I know), they'd capitalize on this; use Obama's divide & conquer against him, or am I just being too logical? |
| Posted by: Raj 2013-09-03 02:21 |
| #2 National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-09-03 02:16 |
| #1 You shall know them by their works.(Or lack thereof) Screw The corrupt O' Crat AFL-CIO. What movement uses acronyms anyway. |
| Posted by: newc 2013-09-03 00:34 |