Longshoreman Quit AFL-CIO over Democrat Care and Taxes - Granite Grok

Longshoreman Quit AFL-CIO over Democrat Care and Taxes

SObamacare-Screwedome 40,000 longshoreman, the ILWU, have just quit the AFL-CIO.  They are pissed off and think the leadership screwed them by bowing to politIcal pressure to support the Patient Affordable Care legislation and everything that went with it, including the taxing of benefits.

So they are taking their toys and “going home.”  ILWU will run its own union pressure campaigns and intimidate people into supporting what they wanT, single payer healthcare.

That’s right.  The ILWU is mad because the members of this large untaxed union will have to pay taxes on benefits and they wont get socialist insurance inc.

The Longshoreman leader said, “President Obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits.” But, regardless of that promise, the President has pushed for just such a tax and Trumka and the AFL-CIO bowed to political pressure lining up behind Obama’s tax on those plans.

I hope that’s not the only broken promise the ILWU are upset about.

Wouldn’t it be great if they rose up and tried to stop Democrat Care altogether so it didn’t tax them, and then agitate for what they want after it was defunded or repealed?  Why don’t I think they will be doing that anytime soon?

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