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rug

(82,333 posts) Fri Dec 9, 2016, 08:13 AM Dec 2016

Trump launches war on unions

Labor leaders said after the election they’d give him a chance to deliver on his pro-worker agenda. But the ceasefire appears over.

By TED HESSON 12/08/16 05:24 PM EST
Updated 12/08/16 05:56 PM EST

The war between Donald Trump and the nation’s labor unions is on.

Labor leaders, who spent almost $100 million campaigning against Trump, said after the election they’d give him a chance to deliver on his pro-worker agenda. But the cease-fire eroded in the last two days.

First, Trump blasted an Indiana union boss personally on Twitter, prompting a blistering response from labor leaders. Then he announced his choice for secretary of the Department of Labor is fast-food executive Andrew Puzder, a union critic who’s even floated the idea of automating his restaurants to avoid worker costs.

“It’s part of a larger agenda, and you can see it playing out in terms of his picks, which is to destroy the labor movement,” said RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United. “They want to do away with democracy. That’s the problem. Labor is a check on the balance of power with corporations and they want labor out of the way.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-unions-war-232382

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Trump launches war on unions (Original Post) rug Dec 2016 OP

That tRumpster Fire and Putzder can go fuck themselves... if it's a war they want, it's a war they're going to get!! InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2016 #1

Do you have no empathy or concern for those who will be hurt or die Demsrule86 Dec 2016 #2

Totally agree calguy Dec 2016 #3

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,125 posts)

1. That tRumpster Fire and Putzder can go fuck themselves... if it's a war they want, it's a war they're going to get!!

Reply to rug (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 08:47 AM

Dec 2016

One thing I know for sure, the revolution Bernie started will have the American people fighting back with a vengeance!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!

Demsrule86

(68,775 posts)

2. Do you have no empathy or concern for those who will be hurt or die

Reply to InAbLuEsTaTe (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 08:55 AM

Dec 2016

during the next four years? The tear it down,and we win mantra seems pretty heartless and self-defeating to me...tear it down, and you lose the courts for a generation...such enthusiasm for whom, Bernie? And how is he going to fix the courts assuming he gets elected which I doubt? Some things can't be fixed by anyone at this point. This election was a disaster for all progressives. There will be no quick fix.

calguy

(5,346 posts)

3. Totally agree

Reply to Demsrule86 (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:15 AM

Dec 2016

The American people had a chance to defeat this clown, but simply put, they (we) didn't.
Now there results are upon us, there is no stopping it now. The GOP will push those hard line positions on us so fast we won't be able to keep up. You'll hear the Dems in congress put up a big fuss, but without the votes, they are powerless to stop it. Count on the GOP to shove their most radical and controversial agendas early on, where they know the public will be up in arms, but, as always, the next election is a full two years away, and most voters will have forgotten all about it by then.
And, as always, so many so called Democrats won't even vote in the mid terms anyways, thereby letting the GOP get anything they want.

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