Great...while in other news, trump is courting unions again.

[jmg257]

Trump administration sees a political rationale to courting the building trade unions, many of whose members appear to have voted for Mr. Trump last fall.

Both groups endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2015, but their presidents were effusive in praising Mr. Trump’s knowledge of the building and construction industry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/business/economy/labor-leaders-trump-.html

[Mc Mike]

1. You'd have to be mobbed up or insane, to be a union leader and praise dRumpf.

And he knows jack squat about the building and construction industry. LIUNA should dump O'Sullivan.

[jmg257]

2. With hundreds of billions of our dollars up for grabs??

"President Trump reiterated on Monday his interest in directing hundreds of billions of dollars to infrastructure investments, some of it from the federal government, union officials said.

“That was the impression I was taken away with,” said Sean McGarvey, the president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, an umbrella group, on a call with reporters after the meeting. “That the American citizenry and the American Treasury will be invested in building public infrastructure.”

Won't take much more to swing more unions to his side. NOT good.

[Mc Mike]

3. He's got a loooong track record of screwing union workers over.

He's got a loooong track record of gaming taxpayer subsidized construction endeavors.

He's got a loooong track record of not paying union contractors after the work is done, forcing them to spend millions in legal fees and/or go bankrupt.

I don't know what can be done about McGarvey, because I never understood how the various trades get together to elect the leaders of umbrella groups, but all the bullshit dRumpf pulled in Atlantic City that screwed all workers, contractors, taxpayers is legendary, well documented. The Taj just went out of business permanently, the day after Labor Day, last year.

That was just dRumpf's way of saying "Happy Labor Day", when he was on the campaign trail. It highlighted his jobs plan.

That was also his way of showing what a great businessman he is, and showing how he repays municipalities like Atlantic City for their confidence in giving him huge taxpayer subsidies in the name of infrastructure projects to promote prosperity.

[jmg257]

4. Ah - all good info - thanks! nt

[Mc Mike]

6. This is a long LTTE I wrote, but there are 14 links to dRump's anti-union moves in it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11179621

[Vinca]

5. Talk about dealing with the devil. What are these union people thinking?

The GOP is hell bent on eliminating them entirely. Trump thinks Americans are overpaid and when he hires workers he often doesn't bother to pay them. Small businesses have gone belly up because Trump has paid them pennies on the dollar.