Dick Trumka makes empty threat to Democrats.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 7th at 09:56 PM  | 

Alternative title: Dick Trumka’s ego writes checks the AFL/CIO can’t cash.  To summarize, the Hill article reports that Trumka is kind-of, sort-of threatening that if the Democratic party doesn’t pay more attention to Big Labor, then Big Labor will start thinking about going politically shopping elsewhere.  This is an… interesting proposition, to be sure – given that Trumka does not exactly say where Big Labor | Read More »

Union murder apologist upset at being called a thug.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 27th at 09:00 AM  | 

AFL-CIO head thug Dick Trumka is worried about THAT WOMAN’s ‘poisonous‘ rhetoric.  The thug feels that a June speech in which she referred to ‘union thugs’ hit a little too close to home is an incitement to violence: “And down in Tyler, Texas, she’s talking about — and I quote — ‘union thugs.’ What? Her husband’s a union man. Is she calling him a thug? | Read More »