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By Warner Todd Huston
September 4, 2010
Richard Trumka “violent activities … organized, orchestrated and encouraged by the leadership of this union”
For his Labor Day weekend trick, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka leveled the charge of McCarthyism at former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. This is a bit rich from a guy with blood on his hands — and I don’t say that figuratively, either.
At a September 2 meeting sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, Trumka claimed that “Palinism” was the “new McCarthyism” and warned that if she kept up her rhetoric she would be guilty of inciting her followers. “She can’t use loose language that foments… that anger to hatred, or that action to violence,” Trumka said.
The comments were “totally consistent,” Trumka said. “She has taken on a position of leadership, and whether it is rightfully given to her or not, she is there. And so she can’t use loose language that foments … changing that anger to hatred or that action to violence.” He continued, “If she doesn’t change her ways, then Palinism will be equated with other forms of McCarthyism that fomented division among the populace and acts of hatred among the populace.”
This is a bit rich from a guy that has the death of a non-union worker in New York on his head. Michelle Malkin does the good work of reminding us all of the violence that Trumka has supported in the past.
Meet Eddie York. He was a workingman whose story will never scroll across Obama’s teleprompter. A nonunion contractor who operated heavy equipment, York was shot to death during a strike called by the United Mine Workers 17 years ago. Workmates who tried to come to his rescue were beaten in an ensuing melee. The head of the UMW spearheading the wave of strikes at that time? Richard Trumka. Responding to concerns about violence, he shrugged to the Virginian-Pilot in September 1993: “I’m saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you’re likely to get burned.” Incendiary rhetoric, anyone?
And Malkin also chronicles the time when Trumka incited violence in Illinois.
There is more……HERE including video
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Trumka — The Eddie York Slaying
United Mine Workers President, 25 Years Ago
Ground Action for 2008 Election:
***Listen carefully from 0:58 to 1:50 about mobilization****
“Targeting undecided voters: Hit them between 15 and 25 times…..talking at worksite, on the phone, or at their home.”
“doesn’t say how unfair; how cruel that allocation of things can be in a free market”
“401 Savings gimmicks”……
“they worship at the altar of deregulation”
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Employee Testimonial of “Card Check” Union Organizing Abuse
Mike Ivey of Gaffney, SC, details abuse he and his coworkers suffered under a coercive “card check” union organizing drive. If the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill the House of Representatives is voting on today passes, we can expect similar abuses to grow like wildfire.
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FORCED UNIONISM
Coercive “Card Check” Union Organizing Victims Speak Out
Union Intimidation and Violence
Union Violence Meets the Sopranos
On April 8, 2008 US Attorneys announced the indictment of 12 OPEU union officials for extortion, harassment and acts of violence.
A local newspaper compared the acts described to an episode of The Sopranos… but this is REAL.
This video, which features actual text from the indictment, serves as a reminder that union violence is all too real, and that often the victims are rank-and-file workers.
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