Posted on 01/31/2017 6:44:41 PM PST by mdittmar
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement about last week’s immigration executive orders:
President Donald Trump has announced three executive orders addressing immigration that are an affront to core union and American values. Building a wall on our border, scapegoating immigrants and refugees, and shutting out people of Muslim faith will do nothing to uplift working people in our country. To the contrary, these orders sow fear of raids among workers, promote racial profiling and erode core constitutional protections. As such, they are a clear attack on our members, and elevated fear is a direct obstacle to workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively. We call on President Trump to revoke these orders.
We are better than this. Our nation must never turn its back on people fleeing violence and oppression based simply upon where they are from or the religion they practice. We call for our nation’s leaders to stay true to our long and proud tradition of providing safe harbor to those seeking to build a better life. We offer our solidarity and support to the working families harmed by this discriminatory ban.
As the groundswell of actions by union members and leaders around the country has made clear, the labor movement will adhere to our core principles of solidarity, dignity, and respect for working people of all races, faith traditions and immigration status. The labor movement will continue to defend all the members of our unions and communities whose livelihoods and rights are threatened by these punitive policies.
You making illegals pay union dues, or else, Dick?
That's kinda mean-spirited.
Trumka is the enemy of the American working class.
I wonder what he would say if Trump announce the wall would be built by American workers.
So the bulk of the membership of the AFL-CIO are illegal immigrants? Well, wonders never cease.
How can we get Keystone to go from Canada to its final stop without hitting a union state?
Blow it out your broad backside, Dick Trumpet.
Oh.......weren’t you then one that was NOT invited to the West Wing Union Photo Op with President Trump?
Trump has made you officially irrelevant.......this is going to be fun to watch you go down......you have sold your people out and they know it
Illigals attacking US Citizens hurts the US Economy.
This is easy.
Nobody has been trashing legal sane immigration.
The Left can’t defend their stance on this, so they have to skew the issue to make any headway.
Frauds...
Under the influence of the free market-oriented neoliberal "Chicago Boys", the military government implemented economic liberalization, including currency stabilization, removed tariff protections for local industry, banned trade unions and privatized social security and hundreds of state-owned enterprises.
When are people going to realize that ‘niceness’ concerning refugees that are infiltrated with ISIS/and or terrorists are not going to help them?
Don’t they know after time and time again seeing these types of people throwing ‘gay’ people off the top of buildings; a Christian person gets beheaded, or put in cages and drowned either in the water or acid, and children sexually abused and killed...
What more do these people need to see before they finally realize that they are the enemy that is here to KILL US, OUR FAMILIES AND OUR GRANDCHILREN!!!
Wake the heck up!!!
Keystone runs directly through the heart of Trump country. It runs from Canada through Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska Oklahoma and ends in Texas. Every state not only went Trump it went Trump big time.
That is what probably really frosts the Leftist twits.
Actually, they have to go to illegals because when many Americans are given the chance they don’t join the unions. It is like the Dems, they want the illegals for their votes and the unions want them for their dues.
Trumpka is essentially saying that we have to let the entire third world into America, and turn America into a third world he!!hole because he says we should fell guilty or some other stupid marxist fairy tale.
What at un-American jerk.
This from thugs that steal money from “working people’s” paychecks. Shut up Dick. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
“Attacking Immigrants and Refugees Hurts All Working People”
No, I’m fine.
Hey Trumpka you dolt - Nobody and I mean nobody is picking on ‘immigrants’ and ‘refugees’ that have been screened, vetted, are legal and are contributing members of American society. By definition, those here who flaunt our laws and remain illegally, those who are more loyal to their country of origin than to America, those who chose to be predators who fill our jails, cannot contribute in any meaningful way to American society. They gotta go. So, take your sob story, instigating, hatespeechifying roadshow and get to steppin’. Signed, The Deplorables
Ask him where Jimmy is.
Several of those union states—and lots of union members—voted for Trump!!!!
Trumka and the other bosses are afraid of losing their power!!!!
All he cares about are dues.....and funneling the $$ to the “Uniparty”.
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