Trumka Hopes to Expand AFL-CIO to Include Non-Union Activists

Breitbart's Big Government ^ | August 8, 2013 | William Bigelow

[2ndDivisionVet]

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is proposing that the national labor union become partners with the Sierra Club and the NAACP, even accepting their ranks as members of the AFL-CIO.

"What we've been doing the last 30 years hasn't worked real well," Trumka said on Capital Download. "We need to do things differently... None of us are big enough to be able to change the climate out there, whether it's economic, political or legislative. And all of us realize it takes all of us working together to get it done."

Trumka has said of the labor movement, "We are in crisis." In 2012, only 11.3% of American wage and salary workers were unionized; in 1982, that figure was 20.1%. The 2012 figures were the lowest in almost 100 years....

[2ndDivisionVet]

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." ~Barack Obama

[GeronL]

Why would non-union members want to do that?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I thought that the unions were being self-destructive in supporting illegal immigration and amnesty for illegal aliens.

I guess I was wrong. With Obama in the Whitehouse, and RINOs on the prowl, the unions will soon have a surge in "legal" members as the tidal wave pours in.

Good for the few union bosses who will be able to live very high on the hog with all those new union dues.

Not so good for the average union member who now has to cope with an increased supply and decreased demand for his labor.

[Mortrey]

“Trumka has said of the labor movement, ‘We are in crisis.’”

Join the party, pal.

Thanks!!! Just made MY evening!

[doc1019]

Panic is setting in.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Getting non-union types to pay union membership dues. That little Dick Trumka is slick. He could sell ice to Eskimos.

[Robert357]

Sounds like unions have jumped the shark!

[Rapscallion]

Call it union enslavement of once-free people.

[LS]

Actually this is good news. The Knights of Labor failed in large part because of the inclusion of unskilled workers. These people have no skills.