Changing America Forever: Behind the AFL-CIO’s Push for Financial Reform

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 30th at 03:09 PM  | 

With outgoing SEIU president Andy Stern having forever changed America through the nationalization of health care, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is picking up where Andy is leaving off As President Obama goes out on the road to use his bully-pulpit to push financial reform, the AFL-CIO staged a major march on Wall Street yesterday.  However, as with nearly every union grassroots astroturf effort, there is | Read More »

The Financial Reform Populist Hoax: Obama and his union-made ‘populist’ pitchforks

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 19th at 01:15 PM  | 

On financial reform, Americans are about to be duped into the Left’s agenda through cajoling and collusion just in time for the mid-term elections. Over a year ago, amidst the worst economic crisis in 70 years, newly-inaugurated populist President Barack Obama summoned Wall Street bankers to the White House to chastise them about the high salaries on Wall Street. Given that this meeting was before | Read More »