Posted on 02/09/2017 12:18:51 PM PST by mdittmar
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General:
The AFL-CIO opposed the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General because of the nominee's long record of working to undermine the rights the Attorney General must uphold. The very process by which he was confirmed—the silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor--demonstrated what his nomination was really about. Now that he has been confirmed, Senator Sessions has the chance to show us wrong—to uphold the law and protect the Constitution, to protect all citizens' right to vote, and to guard the rights and dignity of those whom he has in the past sought to hold down. The stakes for our country could not be higher.
The AFL-CIO has a chance to prove that they care about the working man by discontinuing their blatant partisanship.
Lumpka it appears is not speaking for the rank and file at the moment.
Where was your voice when Eric Holder trampled the Constitution to death, you damn hypocrite.
Rule do not apply to Warren. She is protected.
Jimmy Hoffa jr. stated that he was pleased with what Trump was doing.
AFL-CIO very close to a terrorist organization.
Burning bridges, I see. They must see a world of hurt ahead for themselves.
If the union thugs oppose him he must be good.
Warren wasn’t silenc3ed for reading the letter.
She was silenced for breaking Senate rules.
They just aren’t learning. Any of them. This Administration and this Congress are ignoring these vague threats thinly disguised as concern trolling, whether they come from Democrats, unions, the media, random website pundits, the old guard, or anybody of a “Grievance Studies” faction.
Hey, that’s Squaw Elizabeth Warren to you...
all the right enemies
“the silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor”
Anybody got an over / under on how long this lie will be the two-minute hate? Another week? Two? (”Two minutes” is not acceptable.)
Richard Trumka is a communist and both Gompers and Meany would have despised him.
It also appears the rank and file didn’t listen to Trumka last November.
HAHAHA. Like I care.
i.e. Did not read. :)
Trump has no business being on the board of the AFL-CIO as he took the Fifth Amendment in a Congressional hearing which automatically makes him no longer legible to hold office as per union regulations.
Trump has no business being on the board of the AFL-CIO as he took the Fifth Amendment in a Congressional hearing which automatically makes him no longer legible to hold office as per union regulations.
Trump has no business being on the board of the AFL-CIO as he took the Fifth Amendment in a Congressional hearing which automatically makes him no longer legible to hold office as per union regulations.
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