Citing ObamaCare, 40,000
Longshoremen quit the AFL-CIO
Breitbart – Warner Todd
Huston – 9/2/2013
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 disillusion 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 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.
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