Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO

[cpwill]

Unions are starting to get angry.

The coalitions of the GOP and DNC have always had different flavors - one ideological, one identity-group-based. The unspoken agreement between Republicans has always been that, so long as everyone sticks together, everyone will get a say on the platform and in legislation. The unspoken agreement between Democrats has always been that, so long as everyone sticks together, everyone gets paid. Well, we're running out of money to keep all those groups in hoc. Gonna be fun to watch 'em duke it out opcorn:

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 disillusion 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.....

 

[CalGun]

if not posted I doubt we would hear it. The lame stream only chats up the division on the Republican side between tea party and not tea party republicans.