While this is good news in general, the reason the Longshoremen are quitting is because the AFL-CIO isn’t radical enough for them! That’s right, they prefer a socialist single-payer system. Now it seems the union is fighting with itself over the fastest way to hose the United States. Everyone on the left is deluded, now it’s just the deluded versus the extremely deluded.
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 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 reason the Longshoremen are quitting is because the AFL-CIO isn’t radical enough for them!
I see the same thing in Boulder, CO. We’ve had a fight for the last two years over using eminent domain to condemn Xcel’s local power grid so that the city can form a municipal utility. There’s been only one representative on the city council that I’d remotely describe as “conservative.” All the others are liberals of one stripe or another, and they’ve had quite a rivalry going on between what I’d describe as moderates vs. the far-left, with the far-left statist central planners dominating. In years past I’ve wanted to leave Boulder because I’ve thought my job prospects and cost of living might be better elsewhere, but for the first time I’m uncomfortable living in the city that’s been my adopted hometown for 33 years because of its politics. This may be the straw that finally gets me to move out.