If the federal government AKA Trump attacks organized labor the brotherhood will not support the government AKA Trump you can take that to the bank .
Want to lose keep fucking with citizens jobs !!!
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So just to be clear, in this story weâve got an alleged witness to piles of cash coming out of a garage and you think rank and file will think Trump was the one screwed get them over?
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UAW member Sean Crawford, who works at GMâs Flint Assembly plant, said the news will have a âreally negative impactâ on bargaining.
âCall me cynical but I feel the Trump administration willfully timed this to coincide with our negotiations so that the union would lose faith in the leadership,â said Crawford. âWeâre getting ready to go into one of the biggest negotiations of our lifetime and weâre possibly going to lose faith in our union.â
Justify a raid as opposed to a subpoena .
Things donât disappear before you can ask about them in raids.
As for your confidence, maybe you should never trusted these people to begin with? Sure, it may just be his own money he kept in the garage ⌠could beâŚ
Trump isnât attacking labor and there are more jobs in coal, energy overall, and steel under this administration than weâve had in decades because of his policies.
Democrats on the other hand have been steadily killing off jobs in every area of heavy industry with their policies since the seventies which is why we have few union jobs today than we had in 1940.
You donât think the timing was wrong ?
This investigation was going on for years with the UAW cooperating why not a subpoena instead of a raid ?
This stinks to the heavens the timing could not have lost to the deep state .
The socialist and until Trump the GOP were not friends of the working class as you posted .
Hats shirts and cups this is about pay to play and some people should be punished ! As matter of fact when it comes to pay to play most politicians could stand a visit from these investigators ! Never happen the well connected walk free while the common man does the time !
President Trump did receive MORE union votes than the vast majority of Republicans but NOT more than the wicked witch HILLARY .
" Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won 8 percent more of the union vote than Trump in 2016, a victory that was still a significant double-digit drop in support from unionsâ support for Obamaâs reelection campaign in 2012. @TWR
Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, won a 30-point advantage among union households in 1992 during his successful run for president."
Sounds like the âcorrupt FBIâ is still working to undermine TrumpâŚ
Yep, Wall Street always gets the pass.
Sounds like UAW workers smell a rat. You may be right, they may feel sabotaged.
There is no way anyone can say what percentage of the union vote went where !
We do know President Trump won states that havenât voted for the GOP in decades that was the union working class vote !
An aside: exit polling isnât necessarily reliable. Especially the more wrathful the Left gets.
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I see nothing wrong with the timing, even the rank and file know how crooked the leadership is.
Trump will carry a higher percentage of the AFL-CIO and UAW vote than he did in 2016 next year.
This is a major contract and two weeks before the UAW and GM are to start negotiations the federal government raids union officials .
The investigation has been ongoing for years but the government couldnât just subpoena what they needed it had to be a raid complete with the press on hand .
Trump won MI by a few thousand votes .
Trump won Michigan by just over 10,000 votes in 2016 in part by promising to bring jobs back. But now GM is laying off workers.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb8mgv/michigans-white-blue-collar-voters-helped-give-trump-the-white-house-will-they-turn-on-him-in-2020
In the general election, Donald Trump unexpectedly won Wisconsin by a narrow margin of 0.77%, with 47.22% of the total votes over the 46.45% of Hillary Clinton.
The Republican party candidate, businessman and former host of The Apprentice, an American reality television program, Donald Trump, won Pennsylvania by 44,292 votes out of more than six million cast, a difference of 0.72% and the narrowest margin in a presidential election for the state in 176 years, since 1840 when âŚ
Donald Trump won the election in Iowa with 51.1% of the vote . Hillary Clinton received 41.7% of the vote . Trump carried Iowa by the largest margin of any Republican candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1980.
The 2016 United States presidential election in Florida was won by Donald Trump on November 8, 2016, with a plurality of 49.0% of the popular vote that included a 1.2% winning margin over Hillary Clinton, who had 47.8% of the vote .
Even running against sleepy Joe it wont take much to lose any of these states it;s just bad timing !!
This wonât cost him a single vote from the rank and file, heâll get a bigger percentage of their vote in 2020 than he did in 2016.
Only if this is allowed to die a quite death .
Donât think for a minute that the democratic party isnât going to fight for the labor vote this time around and targets the rank and file this time they got burned in 2016 .
Is Trump a Champion of Workers? His Anti-Union Policies Indicate Otherwisehttps://www.newsweek.com/trump-not-champion-workers-1100483
Trumpâs anti-union orders could be reinstated https://www.federaltimes.com/management/2019/07/16/appeals-court-reverses-ruling-on-trumps-union-executive-orders/
The Myth of a Pro-Union Trumphttps://democracyjournal.org/briefing-book/the-myth-of-a-pro-union-trump/
The Workerâs Friend? Hereâs How Trump Has Waged His War on Workers
When it comes to wowing workers, Donald Trump is an absolute magician. Through some mysterious sorcery, he has convinced millions of American workers that he is their true friend, fighting hard for them, even though he and his appointees have taken one anti-worker action after anotherâdozens of them.
A labor leader recently explained to me, with considerable dismay, how Trump performs his magic on workers. Day after day, Trump pounds and pummels China over trade, and his macho trade war often dominates the headlines. That, this labor leader said, convinces many workers that Trump is their guy: While previous presidents refused to stand up to China, he alone has bravely launched this trade war to make sure that China stops cheating Americaâand American workers. The media trains its spotlight on this trade war day after day, while paying scant attention to the continuous stream of anti-worker and anti-union actions that Trump and his administration have taken. Not surprisingly, millions of people have little knowledge of Trumpâs flood of actions undermining workers.
Same crap democrats have been dishing out for decades just revised with Trumpâs name and policies.
Trade union jobs have grown at a faster rate under Trump than they have in decades, they know that.
You better get a grip and take an honest look at labor and their issues with Obama and now with Trump !
Not true 11.5 % union labor 2015 10.5 % union labor 2019 !
Some how Trump cobbled up a group of voters that got him elected he has stood for the most part with some of them BUT not with organized labor and he may be the last member of the GOP to sit in that white house ! Remember the GOP before Trump controlling states but not that white house he is at a point where he can stand with labor or roll the dice !
This apprenticeship thing is a deal breaker for all skilled trades workers we have been writing letters for weeks now !!
New Trump Labor Department apprenticeship rules, opening training for building trades jobs to cut-rate non-union firms and their bosses â while threatening quality training and building standards â are âlike the fox guarding the henhouse,â a veteran construction union apprenticeship trainer says.https://m.usw.org/blog/2019/construction-unions-protest-trump-admins-new-apprenticeship-rules
ABOUT NORTH AMERICAâS BUILDING TRADES UNIONS
North Americaâs Building Trades Unions is an alliance of 14 national and international unions in the building and construction industry that collectively represent over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada. Each year, our unions and our signatory contractor partners invest over $1 billion in private sector money to fund and operate over 1,900 apprenticeship training and education facilities across North America that produce the safest, most highly trained and productive skilled craft workers found anywhere in the world.
But workers and unions concerned over the Trump DOL scheme donât have much time left to object. Deadline for comments is August 26, the Laborers report. Comments can be filed, via building trades unions, at https://www.saveconstructionapprenticeships.org/#/34.
Right now, the nationâs construction unions run more than 1,600 training programs, all DOL-certified, providing top-tier training and letting thousands of apprentices earn while they learn. That relieves apprentices of massive college student debt and lets them step right into well-paying union construction jobs when they graduate. The jobs include health care coverage and retirement benefits.
At the behest of the corporate class, and particularly non-union construction companies, the Trump DOL wants to establish new certification requirements for Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs (IRAPs) that put the cut-rate contractors and their lobby in charge of crafting new non-registered apprenticeship programs with minimal government oversight.
Thatâs a lot of labor love, considering that Democrats in general have done little to stanch union losses in the past few decades. The percentage of workers in unions is at its lowest in more than a century â down to 10.5 percent from a peak of 35 percent in 1954. Still, labor remains a traditional Democratic constituency, even though Hillary Clinton won union voters by just eight percentage points in 2016, [the narrowest margin] for a Democrat since 1984. Democrats want that vote back, and they particularly need it in three states that flipped from blue to red in 2016.(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/10/donald-trump-got-reagan-like-support-from-union-households/?tid=lk_inline_manual_2)
Picking up union and blue-collar support in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin could be critical to winning the presidency â but it will be a tough haul. Union membership in those states has fallen steeply over the past decade, and Republican lawmakers have done their utmost to hasten the decline.
Largely because of that anti-union law, union membership in Wisconsin has fallen at a faster rate over the past decade than in any other state, plunging by 44 percent, or 177,000 workers, since 2008. Job losses from the Great Recession also fueled the decline, and so did an anti-union-fee directive, often called a right-to-work law, passed by Walkerâs Republican allies in the legislature. Such provisions let employees at unionized workplaces decline to pay any dues or fees to the unions that bargain for them. This encourages some workers to quit the union and stop paying dues.
The story is similar in Michigan. Between 2008 and 2018, union membership there dropped by 19 percent, or 146,000 workers, to 625,000. Trump won Michigan by just 10,704 votes. The decline in membership is largely attributable to the auto industryâs hard times during the recession â and to a right-to-work law that the Republican-dominated legislature enacted in 2013.
The story is somewhat different in Pennsylvania because Republicans there have not been able to push through an anti-union-fee law. Still, stung by the Great Recession, Pennsylvaniaâs unions have lost 182,000 members since 2008, falling by 21 percent to 665,000; Trump won Pennsylvania by 44,292 votes.
Many analysts attribute Clintonâs loss in those three supposed blue-wall states to her failure to connect well with blue-collar voters and to Trump wowing them with impossible promises to bring all the jobs back and stop the flood of factory closings. But it certainly didnât help that, year in and year out, Republican lawmakers and their billionaire-donor allies have pushed in myriad ways to further hobble unions â through legislation and through court cases like Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, in which the Supreme Court ruled last year that teachers, police officers and other government employees canât be required to pay any dues or fees to the unions that bargain for them.https://beta.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-gop-attack-on-american-unions-could-cost-democrats-the-2020-election/2019/08/27/2e5b2992-c465-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html?noredirect=on
In December, the Trump Labor Board rammed through a series of pro-employer rulings demolishing Obama-era gains for unions. Among these rulings was a complete reversal on Specialty Healthcare , once again giving employers substantial power to ensure that the size and composition of a bargaining unit benefits the company, not the union.
Trumpâs Labor Board Likely to Strip Auto Workers of Southern Victory
Following the Boardâs reversal, the D.C. Circuit Court kicked Volkswagenâs appeal back down to the Labor Board to be decided under the new precedentâall but guaranteeing that the skilled-trades vote will be overturned.
I have a grip and always have. While as a percentage of the whole union membership keeps dropping there are more union jobs today than there have been in decades as heavy industry is seeing a rebirth that is putting a lot of out of work members back to work.
He had better call of the dogs and start making nice to the people that stood with him when the GOP and most republicans wouldnât .
No citizen wants corruption any where . When we find it root it out and make sure it punished across the board equally .