AFL-CIO endorses Hillary Clinton

[onehandle]

Source: CNN

(CNN)The leadership of the AFL-CIO voted on Thursday to endorse Hillary Clinton for president, according to a spokesman for the union federation.

"Hillary Clinton is a proven leader who shares our values," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement after the vote. "Throughout the campaign, she has demonstrated a strong commitment to the issues that matter to working people, and our members have taken notice. The activism of working people has already been a major force in this election and is now poised to elect Hillary Clinton and move America forward."

The endorsement from the more than 12 million member organization is a boon for Clinton, who after clinching the Democratic nomination for president will face Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump in November.

According to the AFL-CIO, the endorsement means the organization will "put in motion its ground campaign to elect Hillary Clinton and union endorsed candidates across the country." "We will run a sophisticated, targeted ground campaign," Trumka said. "And with the dire consequences Donald Trump poses for America's working families, it has to be."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/16/politics/hillary-clinton-afl-cio-union-endorsement/

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[yallerdawg]

2. No unity?

NUMA!

[phazed0]

3. Endorsed, if only because there is no other option..

The Hill - AFL-CIO withholding Clinton endorsement, report says

Real Clear Politics - AFL-CIO Pres. Richard Trumka Says Unions Will Only Passively Support Clinton Because Of TPP

Clinton Gets No Love From AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

Union Members Seem To Want Bernie Sanders Over Hillary Clinton. Will Labor Leadership Follow Them?

Unions have suffered under the hands of the Clintons (Free Trade, NAFTA) and will continue to do so with the support Hillary has for the TPP, so, not exactly a glaring endorsement.

[onehandle]

4. Cool story, bro. nt

[phazed0]

5. As a Union Electrician that was basically put out of work..

by such policies... I find it not so much a "cool story", bro. Glad to see you don't give a hoot about others.

[azurnoir]

6. The DNC is only allowing 1 labor rep at their platform committee

and I was told that unions just weren't that important to the Democratic party anymore

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512177791

[phazed0]

8. +1

[Cryptoad]

9. Yea,,,,

its Trump and the GOP looking out for the working folk,,,,,, geeez.

[phazed0]

11. You look at it as..

one or the other as if they have opposing views... but what if they have the same view?

[Cryptoad]

13. Right, Democrats and GOP are the same...

u gotta be joshing, ? Ur time here is short, u may want to find another site that fits views.

[phazed0]

15. Is that what I said?

No, it isn't what I said.. reading comprehension is a must. Why not stop baiting people like you always do, Cryptoad, and post up how this Union member is so wrong about unions?

Somebody call the Whaaambulance! Cryptoad just found out that the GOP and DNC could actually have the same views on something and not be "the same"! Wow, what a concept!

[Cryptoad]

19. Baiting?

tick, tick, tick

[phazed0]

20. I'll take your silence on rebutting my argument

as an agreement that I am right and you are wrong then. Seems all you can do is focus on denigrating members, instead of the issue at hand. Typical.

[Cryptoad]

23. No Need to

bother with disproving something u have not proved... all u have done is the same ole anti Democrat attack,,,,speculation, hearsay and innuendo.

[phazed0]

24. Lol, you are unbearable..

So you think this is the DNC and Democrats are helping?

2013 - TIME - The Decline of Unions Is Your Problem Too

Last week came news that the share of America’s workforce that’s unionized hit a 97-year low. A mere 11.3% of workers now belong to a union, and a great chunk of those are in the shrinking public sector. In the private sector, unionization fell to an abysmal 6.6%, down from a peak of 35% during the 1950s.

Speculation. Yeah, the guy in the union and TIME magazine don't know what they're talking about. 97 year low, nothing to see here, says Cryptoad.

[phazed0]

26. tick, tick, tick... indeed...

... as your post is hidden.

TIME - Hillary Clinton Faces Unrest Among Organized Labor (July 2015)

Salon - Hillary Clinton’s labor problem (2007)

One of her top strategists is CEO of a union-busting P.R. firm.

Economic Policy Institute - NAFTA’s Impact on U.S. Workers (2013)

The Atlantic - Does Labor Actually Like Hillary Clinton - and how does she feel about labor? (Nov, 2015)


... so that you may shout from the rooftop a bit more intelligibly.

[azurnoir]

14. No my point is something else entirely

[LiberalFighter]

27. So at the state convention I am going to this weekend

there should be more than one person from my congressional district on each of the standing committees?

All of these delegates are members of a labor union or work on behalf of one. Some of them might be considered lobbyists but they work directly on behalf of their labor union. They are DNC members for their respective state party.

AK Kim Metcalfe Labor: AFSCME retired
AL Darryl Sinkfield Labor: Education
CA Steven Alari Labor: SEIU
CA Maria Durazo Labor: AFL-CIO
CA Alexandra Gallardo-Rooker Labor: CWA
CA Tefere Gebre Labor: AFL-CIO
CA Keith Umemoto Labor: SEIU
CA Laurence Zakson Legal: Labor
CO Diana DeGette Labor: AFSCME
CT John Olsen Labor: AFL-CIO
DC James Boland Labor: Bricklayers
DC Mary Beth Cahill Labor: UAW
DC Larry Cohen Labor: CWA
DC Lily Eskelsen García Labor: NEA
DC Carrie Pugh Labor: NEA
DC Steve Regenstreif Labor: AFSCME
DC Lee Saunders Labor: AFSCME
DE Karen Valentine Labor: AFSCME
FL Angel Gomez Labor: Teachers
FL Alma Gonzalez Labor: AFSCME
GA Richard Ray Labor: AFL-CIO
HI Russell Okata Labor: State Employees
HI Doug Pyle Labor: Activist
IA Danny Homan Labor: USW Activist
IA Sandy Opstvedt Labor: IBEW
IL Steven Powell Labor: UFCW
IN Cordelia Burks Labor: AFSCME
IN David Frye Labor: Laborers
MA Virginia Barnes Labor: Teamsters
MA Debra Kozikowski Labor: UAW (CAP Chair)
MD Maria Cordone Labor: IAM&AW
MD Glenard Middleton Labor: AFSCME
MI Steven Cook Labor: MEA
MI Norwood Jewell Labor: UAW
MI Daryl Newman Labor: AFL-CIO
MI Al Garrett Labor: AFSCME
MN Javier Morillo-Alicea Labor: SEIU
MO Sandy Querry Labor: IBEW Spouse
MP Thersita Pertduo Labor: UFCW
NC Jeffrey Cox Labor: AFGE
ND Renee Pfenning Labor: IBEW
NE Ronald Kaminski Labor: LIUNA
NJ Lizette Delgado Polanco Labor: SEIU
NV Artie Blanco Labor: AFL-CIO
NY Stuart Appelbaum Labor: RWSDU
NY Laphonza Butler Labor: SEIU
NY Hector Figueroa Labor: SEIU
NY Dennis Rivera Labor: SEIU
NY Randi Weingarten Labor: AFT
OH Patricia Frost-Brooks Labor: OHEA
OH Ronald Malone Labor: OAPSE
OH Joseph Rugola Labor: AFL-CIO
OK James Frasier Legal: Labor Law
PA Richard Bloomingdale Labor: AFL-CIO
PA Amanda Green-Hawkins Labor: USW
PA Sylvia Wilson Labor: Teachers
TX Montserrat Garibay Labor: Teachers
TX Carol Guthrie Labor: AFSCME
TX John Patrick Labor: USW
UT Wayne Holland Labor: USW Attorney
VA Doris Mays Labor: AFL-CIO
WA Juanita Luiz Labor: IBEW
WV Elaine Harris Labor: CWA
WV Patrick Maroney Labor: AFL-CIO Counsel

The person representing labor on the Platform is the executive assistant to the President of AFSCME. That is high up in the chain of command for AFSCME. It could had easily been the President of AFSCME but it would had involved more work that his assistant could handle better. As it is the President of AFSCME is a DNC member.

[azurnoir]

28. still and none the less the DNC is only allowing 1 member of labor on the platform committee

that in and of itself sends a message as to labors importance or lack there of to the DNC

[LiberalFighter]

29. How many positions are there on the platform committee?

Should labor take away positions from other interest groups? There are only a limited number of positions.

[rjsquirrel]

30. Yet Cornell West is on there

How about he steps aside for another union rep?

He is a hideous choice who called our first black president the N word. Such a symbolic choice by Bernie.

[azurnoir]

31. The labor choice that may have had his position was rejected by the DNC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/01/sanders-dnc-vetoed-union-leader-pick-for-platform-committee/

[rjsquirrel]

32. Well someone has to go

so Bernie's temper tantrum could be assuaged.

Mark my words, Cornell West will hurt our party by saying something hateful and stupid about Hillary or Israel at just the right moment.

The guy is a charlatan as a philosopher. He also gets paid tens of thousands of bucks per speech and is likely quite rich from it. Man of the people right there.

He called Obama a "niggerized black man." Look it up. Bernie's selection of West for the platform committee erased my last bit of respect for Brother Bernie. West is a clown.

[Cryptoad]

7. So u are saying

u losing ur job is cause of democratic Party and its leadership?

[phazed0]

10. No, I didn't lose my job..

I essentially can't work for 2-3 months out of the year and have constant pay cuts bargained for to compete with low-wage labor that is imported. (I started my own business as a side job, which became successful - so no more doing electrical work. I still am a union member and can sign the book at any time).

I wouldn't say "because of Democratic Party and it's leadership" only because there are plenty in the D's that do not try to railroad the unions and there is obviously another political party that wants to demolish unions, too. But to say that Hillary or the recent Democratic establishment is good for unions simply isn't true (in the eyes of history and facts).

If you are for the TPP, you are against unions and the very idea for which they stand... period.

[Cryptoad]

16. so u r a small biz owner, heh

that has a bone to pick with union, Democratic Party is not running ur union. take it up with ur union leadership. And u finally got around to ur real reason for posting, "Hillary" bashing,,,, u only talking teh same ole "Hillary" bashing by speculation and innuendo -- whisper attack. u do realize that DU is a site that promotes Democrats?

[phazed0]

18. Sorry, you're clueless...

I'm not claiming that the D's run unions... I'm claiming that D's have implemented policies and look to implement the TPP which flies in the face of unions. Prove me wrong, please.

It's not bashing if it's true. Is Hillary supporting TPP or not? Who was instrumental to passing NAFTA and the 1994 Free Trade Agreements?

Stick your head in the sand all you want. Democrats used to be pragmatic thinkers, not cheerleaders.

[Cryptoad]

21. this is thread abt a Union endorsement of Hillary

and u have hijacked it to spew ur anti Clinton venom ,,,,tick, tick, tick

[phazed0]

22. I'm on topic, you're not. Who's hijacking?

Go ahead at let us all know of some empirical facts regarding Hillary or this DNC being good for unions. Thanks.

[yallerdawg]

12. Today.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said:

Hillary Clinton is a proven leader who shares our values. Throughout the campaign, she has demonstrated a strong commitment to the issues that matter to working people, and our members have taken notice. The activism of working people has already been a major force in this election and is now poised to elect Hillary Clinton and move America forward.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has brought an important voice to this election and has elevated critical issues and strengthened the foundation of our movement. His impact on American politics cannot be overstated.

We are ready to fight hard to restore faith in America and improve the lives of all working people. Hillary Clinton has proven herself as a champion of the labor movement, and we will be the driving force to elect her president of the United States.

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Working-People-of-the-AFL-CIO-Endorse-Hillary-Clinton-for-President

[phazed0]

17. Well, you didn't expect them to endorse Trump, did you?

Nor did you expect to see Trumpka say, "Lesser of two evils", in a sense, did you? Or am I missing your point?

[Hotler]

33. "Hillary Clinton is a proven leader who shares our values,"

Keep drinking the Kool-aid Richard, again I think the man just sank lower than Elizabeth Warren. Again I can't control myself.

[LenaBaby61]

34. So happy....

To have this wonderful endorsement.