Why are organizations that are supposedly pro-American worker backing the Democrats and pushing for Amnisty???


Key Congressman Warns that Unions See 2008 as Pivotal Year

Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon of California is the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Education and Labor. As much as any member of Congress, he is attuned to what organized labor is seeking for 2008 and beyond – and the lengths to which unions are prepared to achieve them. He recently shared his thoughts in an exclusive interview for Labor Watch, a monthly publication of a Washington, D.C. nonprofit monitoring group, the Capital Research Center. The unions are pulling out the stops, he noted, and they mean to persuade what remains of the 110th Congress to make good on its legislative pledges, especially the Employee Free Choice Act, which would mandate employers to recognize the results of a simple-majority union card check, thus overriding any possibility of holding a secret-ballot election afterward.



Congressman McKeon explained to Bryan O’Keefe, associate director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for College Affordability, that union positions on the issues are virtually identical to those of the Democratic Party. “One needs to look no further than the 2007 labor legislative record to see how closely the priorities of congressional Democrats track with those of their labor union allies. On one bill after another, Democrats have sought ways to increase the number of dues-paying union members while giving labor bosses a greater level of control over workers, businesses and entire communities.” The proposed reforms and the way unions fight for them, McKeon notes, are more aggressive now than during the Clinton era. “I think the environment today is far different than that under President Clinton,” he said. “Then, you saw a Democratic President seeking incremental changes with a Republican congressional majority focused intently on maintaining balance and fairness.” He cited the Employee Free Choice Act, the RESPECT Act, and the recent grilling of sitting members of the National Labor Relations Board before a joint House-Senate hearing as examples of organized labor’s escalating power grab.



The AFL-CIO has stated publicly that it plans to spend more than $200 million during the 2008 election cycle, and hire more than 200,000 volunteers. If the unions manage to put Democrats in the White House and give them a clear majority in both houses of Congress this November, the party will have major IOUs. And they’ll be in a position to get almost all of what they want, knowing a presidential veto would be virtually inconceivable. O’Keefe’s companion article in Labor Watch, “A Union Revival?: Unions Look to Democrats to Enact Sweeping Legislative Agenda,” summarizes what organized labor wants out of lawmakers. Union members currently account for about 12 percent of all workers in this country, a union-density rate less than two-fifths what it was 50 years ago. As the unions see it, a green light from Congress for aggressive organizing tactics is the best way to raise that figure. They’re preparing for a monster showdown. (Labor Watch, 2/0.

Unions continue push for amnesty for illegal immigrants. Fresh from defeat in late 2006 in their quest to persuade Congress to pass an amnesty bill, the unions, led by the AFL-CIO, were at it again in 2007, seeking full, unconditional legal resident status for illegal-immigrant workers. They wanted legislation to enable these workers to “come out of the shadows” – as if they could be out any more. Massive rallies and marches in city streets didn’t materialize this time around, but the political activism to promote amnesty is every bit as determined. A revamped but still massive amnesty proposal, backed by virtually all Congressional Democrats and the Bush administration, once again fell short, thanks to a mid-year Senate Republican filibuster. Labor, however, did score a partial victory a few months later in San Francisco federal court, joining with the ACLU and several other plaintiffs to successfully block the Department of Homeland Security from mailing out Social Security “no-match” letters to employers to discourage them from hiring illegal workers.

And yet they fight the cross border truck program.

Welcome to Teamster World 2008........

And people wonder why union membership is in the crapper.

New members and a new source of revenue for the B.A's

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Enemy of the O/O.......(Mary and her beyatch)

Feel the Wrath of the She-hag.....

Yet you ask a Union member about this and is Deny, Deny, Deny and they get upset!

For example, My old home state of Illinois.

State-level Political Donations
Public sector unions give thousands of dollars to local legislators, often in an effort to guarantee exorbitant benefits from the state.

Total Contributions Democrat $ 10,624,514 Republican $ 2,329,273

Federal-level Political Donations
Each election unions spend millions of their members' money supporting politicians, many of whom the union members don't even like. The following Illinois candidates received money from labor unions.

Total Contributions Democrat $ 1,826,131 Republican $ 422,400

Yes, we're fighting the cross border trucking program. We aren't fighting for amnesty though, considering we're not in the AFL-CIO. Were you fooled by this skewed anti-union brainwash article?

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Unions back the candidates who share their pro-labor views, and that's how it's been for at least 100 years or so. Where have you been? And where do you get this information from? If you post an article and you want to be taken seriously, you post a source and an author.

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The Teamsters Union is one of the largest labor unions in the world, as well as the 11th largest campaign contributor in the United States. While they supported Republicans [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. and [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. for President in the 1980s, they have begun leaning largely toward the Democrats in recent years; they have donated 92% of their $24,418,589 in contributions since 1990 to the Democratic Party. Though the majority of their donations have gone to the Democrats, there has been a higher majority since President Bush took office.

Powerful teamsters union endorses Obama

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Why get testy. The info is out there for everyone.....

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So brtecson, Your saying that the Dems are pro labor?? Why is it every time they are in power the unemployment rate goes up for the most part and when the Republicans are in power the Unemployment rate goes down?? I say follow the $$$ trail. That is the reason the Unions LOVE the Democraps............