Posted on 07/14/2009 3:02:49 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The Washington Post has published a glowing article about likely incoming AFL-CIO president, Richard Trumka (photo), titled "Trumka Hopes to Mend the AFL-CIO." Writer Chris Cillizza asks in the very first sentence of his story, "Can Richard Trumka reunite the labor movement?"
Cillizza portrays Trumka as genuinely puzzled over the reason for the big split in the labor movement:
With Trumka's election virtually ensured, the central question is whether he can heal the rift that occurred four years ago when the Service Employees International Union and the Teamsters (among others) left the AFL-CIO to form a new labor coalition known as Change to Win.
Trumka, in a recent interview with the Fix, was puzzled over the reasons behind the fracture. "First they said it was because we did too much political action [and] that obviously wasn't the case since everyone spent a lot of time on political action," he said. "Then they said we didn't spent enough time on organizing."
Regardless of the reasons for the split, Trumka says his background prepares him well for the task of reunification. Elected as the head of the United Mine Workers in the early 1980s, Trumka helped unite warring factions within the group and bring it under the AFL-CIO umbrella. "Over the years, I've had a fairly successful record of bringing people together," he said.
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PING!
I had a friend who joined the Young Socialist Alliance in the late 70’s. They were associated with the Socialist Workers Party. Trumpka was an organizer for the SWP in the 70’s
Cillizza? Isn't that Snoop-dogg-speak for a part of a woman's genetalia...the man in the boat?
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