Warner Todd Huston
Breitbart.com
Big Government
2 Sep 2013
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 Obama 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.
McEllrath also went on to say that they support stronger immigration reform than the AFL-CIO is supporting…
The article, with video, continues at Big Government.
Also at the site, White House mulls Obamacare subsidies for labor unions.
As union members and their leaders have become increasingly opposed to ObamaCare’s restrictions, the White House is reportedly considering a plan to offer health insurance subsidies–which were originally intended for the uninsured–to labor union members who already have employer-sponsored health insurance plans….
Unions: Obama, Democrats to Blame if Jobs, Insurance Lost over Obamacare
Update: What ObamaCare Means to Me: Top 10 graphic responses
The White House propaganda machine never rests, so conservatives made sure to use Twitter to deliver some hard truths and tell the world what #WhatObamaCareMeanstoMe. Here are 10 great graphic explanations…
Update 2: Trumka: The Health Care Bill We Helped Ram Down America’s Throat Is Flawed
From last week here’s Trumka answering a question about the shift to part-time employment under Obamacare. His message: No one intended some of these problems…
CAJ note: Puhleez. Any reader of this blog could have seen this train-wreck coming, but the smartest brains of the Ivy League could not? I call bullshit, Boys.
