Trumka: Obama ‘Very Helpful’ in Wisconsin Fight
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In an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Thursday evening, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka was confident that Democrats and their union supporters will benefit from Republican attempts to crack down on burgeoning public employee pensions and collective bargaining privileges.
Following the Wisconsin Assembly vote to pass Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining crackdown, Trumka told Maddow that union workers know the president is on their side, and praised Obama for being “very, very helpful.”
“First, he called what was going on in Wisconsin the attack on working people,” Trumka said. “And then he met with the Republican governors and he said: ‘You’re wrong for villainizing public workers. They’re our neighbors, they’re our friends, they’re our nurses, they’re doctors, they’re teachers. They’re all of our friends – you shouldn’t do that.’ ”
“This is about those governors that are making war on their employees and trying to deny them a middle-class lifestyle,” he said. “Hopefully, there will be more and more support from politicians, including the president.”
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Comments (69)
JamesR
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:29amthe only thing I can think of is Obama must have been a cheerleader for Trumka and his union bros.
Report Post »Jim from Maine
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:22am-Birds of a feather flock together.
Report Post »temple62
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:15amWhat a team, Trumka and Obama, Obama and Trumka. They even look alike except Trumka is shorter, fatter and whiter. Maybe Trumka is Obama’s “pitty partner”? They are the Laurel and Hardy of “Hope and Change” so how’s that working out for you guys?
Report Post »kathyd6
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:06amIf the Governor and Republican Senators are recalled and the Democrats win re-election than I’d say the vast population of folks in Wisconsin deserve what they get. The majority don’t have collective bargaining, they don’t get the right to complain about working conditions, they have to pay more for benefits, so it‘ll be interesting to see what happens and where they stand on what’s been done. Thank you Governor Walker you did the right thing and if the folks don‘t think so and the recall is sucessful then you’re meant to be somewhere else.
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:14amTHE PATRIOTDAVE
Report Post »I never refer to Obama as president except here to say I say that man in the white house. By no stretch of the imagination does he deserve the official title. DESTROYER is the title he deserves.
wash1776
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:11amOf course Obama was very helpful to you and the Wisconsin unions. Why wouldn’t he be. You are both EVIL AND CROOKED AS A DOG’S HIND LEG!
Report Post »Obama Been Lauding
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:07amThe only kind of ‘Worker’ these people talk about, are ‘Public Employees’.
Report Post »The reason they want more ‘Public Employees’, is to get more “FORCED UNION DUES”.
More money in the pockets of the Union Bosses, and more for Obama’s campaign.
Obama/Unions are all for it.
poetopoet
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 3:52amWell, what the hell he is picking on white meat after all.
Obama’s submitted short form certificates of live birth (COLB) three versions), all proven forgeries and the only official proof released for Obama’s alleged right as a citizen to be president. However, all were proven fraudulent and forgeries by the israelinsider, wnd, esternjournalism and others as seen on YOUTUBE and “The Certificate of Live Birth” COLB, Obama posted as proof has been proven to be a forged fraudulent document by Dr. Ron Polland PHD., an expert regarding document analysis, as seen on YOUTUBE. The COLB as submitted cannot be used as Prima Fascia Evidence in any court in America or any Government agency.
Chief Supreme Court Justice John Marshall cited Vattel, “born on the soil of parents who are its citizens.” as stated in the U.S. Constitution to mean on American soil, by two American citizens and not one married to another at the time with allegiance to Kenya or the United Kingdom’s sovereignty and citizen of either. The president is the only elected office the U.S Constitution states that as law and a requirement.
Proudly, Timothy Adams, the former Chief Elections Clerk in Hawaii in 2008 stated: “There is NO long form Birth Certificate for Obama recorded born in Hawaii.” in a sworn affidavit.
The new D. governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie allegedly claimed to remember what happened fifty years ago and guess what? He had to retract his own words and fairy tale delusions, because he as governor could not see, say he witnessed anything to reproduce or resemble a legal Birth Certificate or COLB for Obama on record anywhere in Hawaii.
Then the governor failed to recall why Barry/Barack II appeared in Seattle Washington, as an infant (one month old (fact), by the way of and coming from where Governor Abercrombie? The Governor at five foot one sure does stand out in the anal passages of Obama’s short lived history of lies and deceptions.
Report Post »chinqua
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 2:41amTrumka: Obama ‘Very Helpful’ in Wisconsin Fight
Naw! You think. . .
Report Post »Matt39
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:17amTrumka picked the right dizzyass show to appear on…LIES & More LIES.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:52amWith Trumka and Obama on the same team the unions are sure to implode by scandal, severe abuses, and progressive-style mafioso tactics.
Report Post »PCFreeZone
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:30amPerhaps it‘s less about the middle class and more about losing union dues and negatively impacting Trumpka’s compensation and ego – money and power. He’s such a smug communist elitist pig, just like those he associates with every day by phone and in person a couple times a week.
Report Post »GingerC
Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:53amYou are absolutely right on. It is not about the “worker”.. it is ALL about the money, and of course, the power that goes with it. Trumka and his ilk know full well that when given the CHOICE the majority of folks would not pay those dues. I hear from teachers all the time that would love to not be forced to join a union to do their job.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:05amWe aren’t only going to stop you union thugs, Trumka, but Obama too, bc he isssn‘t ’very helpful’ to our country. He is out in 2012 and and he can take his admiration for you with him.
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:43pmThis is just a perfect storm of idiots running every aspect of this country. Unions, the dictator, the senate, judges and idiot voters. Bad time to be an American.
Report Post »royalstar
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:29pmTrumka, what a turd. It’s greedy unions that bankrupted many companies and drove them to other countries. That’s what happened to the jobs Trumka. You know it and don’t really give a damn you pos liar.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:14pmOf course the President is on your side, Trumka. He, like yourself, believes thuggery is a legitimate tactic to be used to get what you want. The President, like yourself, has ABSOLUTELY NO REGARD for those who pay the tab for YOUR EXCESSES and those of your ilk. The country is going under and you greedy bastards could care less AS LONG AS YOU GET YOURS. Cry all you want about the unfairness of capitalism, but it is you, Mr. Trumka and your merry band of thieves who are the true DESTROYERS OF AMERICA!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 9:15pmUnion Leadership + Obama Administration = World Wide Communist Organization and attempted domination. Union members are either innocent dupes or they are in collusion & have sold their souls to the devil.
Report Post »Jack G Scott
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 8:51pmWhy would anyone think these two idiots know ANYTHING about what the normal everyday US citizen goes through? These two talking heads are members of the so called ELITE they profess to despise so much! It is time for the REAL PATRIOTS to take our country back!!!! Read the damn constitution,90% of what the Feds do is ILLEGAL!!! 18 ENUMERATED POWERS,NOT UNLIMITED,WAKE UP CITIZENS OF THESE SEVERAL STATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Derfel Cadarn
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 8:31pmTrumka should be in prison for sedition.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 8:28pmWonder what the cost will be to “The” union?
>And, how much money ‘it’ will lose (ha, ha, ha)
Report Post »Contrarian51
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 8:21pmI can‘t believe you don’t get a picture of Trumka when you put “thug” in a search engine.
Report Post »teresa2010
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:00amTrumka won’t show up as Thug inthe search engine….That’s because Google controls the search results….Taxpayer paying for Trumka’s $500,000 plus wages…Robbery
Nuf said..
Report Post »Steel Awesome
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 8:13pmWho exactly are the working people in this country? Do you have to belong to a union to be considered “working class?”
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:37amAwesome question. The unions have been marginalizing those workers who are not in unions. It‘s time somebody pointed out to them that union members are not the only ’workers’ in America.
Report Post »odrade
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 7:17pmHe wasn’t helpful enough. The anti-collective bargining bill passed. Thank God!
Report Post »Thumpper1946
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:51amThe “President” should not have had any influence in Wisconsin at all. Since he is our “President” (certainly a Federal position) he has no legal right to attempt to affect changes in a state legislature. Wasn’t there something written a while back about powers not specifically given to the federal government become the responsibility of the states to handle. The last time I looked Wisconsin was not part of the Federal government.
Report Post »justice
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 6:52pmBLAH,BLAH. Notice your Fat A$$ is larger. You must be eating like a fat cat…
Report Post »Wildblue3
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 6:16pmCan‘t he realize that Wisconsin is broke and can’t afford these nice little deals any more?? and all the collective bargaining costs alot of money
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 7:54pmTrumka‘s acting like America doesn’t already know that he and Obama are joined at the hip. Those two are so deluded that they can‘t see that America has slipped through their slimy hands and the only place they’re going, together, Is To The Curb! Maybe, they’ve even earned a prison term together! Time Will Tell!
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 8:11pmThis is NOT, I repeat..NOT, an attack on union members or the hardworking Americans who belong to them. What this really amounts to is an attack on the union bosses and their corrupt methods of strong arming and taking monies away from those same hardworking individuals who don’t want their money going to political parties so the union BOSSES friends can get elected and they can line their pockets. Union members are being used by these scum and have been for a very long time. All the public sector employees will be harmed further as this continues to evolve from the union BOSSES and their strong arm tactics, boycotts, and threats. Where do you think your salaries are coming from, the taxpayers, to which YOU are also one of. Sooner or later, if the union BOSSES get their way, jobs will be lost in both the public and private sectors, but the union BOSSES will continue to get theirs.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:24amSomeone should sit Trumpka down and throw his words right back at him: “You’re wrong for villainizing the governors. They’re our neighbors. They’re our friends. You shouldn’t do that to them. By the way, they are trying to save their states from bankruptcy and their citizens from losing their jobs. What have you and your unions done to help that cause?”
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:26amOne other thought, while Obama is being ‘helpful’ in the Wisconsin fight, I think we can safely say that the unions try very hard to be ‘helpful’ to Obama.
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:11amWILDBLUE, do youi think Union bosses give a rat’s arse about the financial state of Wisconsin???
All they are concerned about is their own power and its requisite connections to maintain and grow that power, such as the White House!!!!!!!
Report Post »Ledger
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:07amBeing a retired state employee from Texas, I can see both sides. The government has to keep it’s promises to the retired workers, because the retirees are not young enough or healthy enough to start over in life. We don’t have unions here, and sometimes I wish we had them. The politicians cannot be trusted with great power and money any more than the union bosses. There must be reason and accountability on both sides. In Wisconsin, it is clear that the unions had amassed too much power and influence. The workers may be good people. But at least in the case of the Teachers Union, the union has become a parasite that is destroying it’s host.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 9:29amTrumka should respond to the way union members are being treated more harshly in Connecticut under a democrat Governor, Senate, and House, all with a super majority. Governor Walker is only taking 105 of what the Democrats in Ct. are taking from union. Labor movement is silent in Connecticut because it is democrats doing the union busting.
Report Post »orchidman
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 10:35amThis is really the battleground for 2012. We The People against the unions and all of their rotten politicians on both sides of the aisle. We will have to give our money to support individual candidates we want. I won’t support a national party with my money ever again. It’s up to us so get ready!!!
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 10:57amI don’t think the Gov villainized public workers. Not “…our nurses, they’re doctors, they’re teachers. They’re all of our friends….” He villianized fat, over-paid, self-serving punks like trumka!
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:32pmThe most important thing we have to do is to get off our chairs and go talk to our friends who think the democratic party is a legitimate political party and work on them. You need to organize for freedom and our Constitution. This is how we are going to win this. By exposing to the American people what the Left truly represents. We can use their own tactics against them even if it means that we have to take a shower right after that. Look I have a co-worker friend, he is from China, who liked Obama. He could not understand why I disliked him so much. It took three months, but now I have this guy with a US flag on his desk and a copy of our Constitution. He quotes Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin all the time. Some say I created a monster. I for one feel good but worried. Is this something else we are going to export to China?
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:54pmThis man has one agenda on his mind, and that is how to control as much money and power as he can, and he will ride Obama like a horse if he has to. I actually hope that Obama wakes up to who is really around him, and realizes that they don’t share his view of America. Obama is a socialist, but I don’t think he wants the US to be destroyed, he just wants to write the future for it.
Report Post »lionslayer44
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:16pmanother traitor to the country conspiring with foreign governments to implement the NWO. im sure hoffa would welcome a bed mate
Report Post »PJPony
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:36pmLedger,
I can understand some of your concern for the union retiree, however, they are usually younger and more able to go back to work than most private citizens. We are having to postpone our retirement later and later, in order to fund retirement as young as 50 for some union workers.
Perhaps some of us feel to old to keep working as well, however, we still have to trudge in to work everyday. Why should someone have it better than the rest of us, simply because they were able to join a union?
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