Or incredible, or unprecedented, or something.
Union leaders say they're looking forward to working with Pres Trump: "The respect [he] just showed us… was nothing short of incredible." pic.twitter.com/ra6T3lKsCR
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) January 23, 2017
Union leaders pledging fealty to a lifelong democrat…shocking.
“infrastructure, trade and energy policy…”
The Beltway Green Lobby just lost bigtime.
The unions liked what they were hearing just as much as the corporate CEOs did.
My games Trump is such a racist bigot homophobe or something
It’s called DIVIDING THE LEFT. Let the Dumbos have the unproductive greentards. Who would you rather have on your side, the brawlers or the betas? Besides, it sure looks like the traditional blue collar unions have had it with being betrayed by the lip service from the Dumbocrats
Trump has worked with trade unions in New York for decades. They put up his buildings. He knows how to deal with them from a position of mutual respect. This should not be a surprise to anyone. He’s never had problems with union workers, it’s always been the Democrat union leaders who have been political adversaries, but they put that aside to get jobs for their members.
So union goons like tariffs and protectionism? Shocking I tell ya.
They’re from trade unions and not e.g. government types.
You nailed it, Dan. Let the Dems keep all the feminazis and beta male ‘watermelons’ (green outside’ red inside) while Trump peels off the Dem’s union leaders ( = donations for 2020) and a million or more union voters (and @$$ kickers) for 2020. Trumps is EXTREMELY street smart!
It has been fairly well-documented that Trump is exceptionally good at small meetings. Even Chris Matthews – who has known trump for thirty years admits as much. apparently he is very positive, an excellent listener, a natural at appreciative inquiry and no surprise very effective at getting to a consensus/agreement. An executive’s executive…
It is rather apperant Trump is very good at getting things done and choosing people who get things done . Contrast this with our so called ” leader ” who has managed to accumulate 30 billion ++++ without getting a shovel in the ground . Please excuse me , this is dangerous fake news – they managed to spend a small fortune re decorating their offices !
Why wouldn’t they be friendly if he is going to fix the bridges, highways and airports.
My father was union. Printer. 40 years. His busiest years were when Reagan was prez. A strong business friendly president is a working man’s best friend. Period. E.O.S.
I never could understand why the unions … not the snowflake government unions, but the trade unions … those guys and gals never struck me as liberals.
They appear have awakened from a liberal dream that was always BS. I wonder if the negroes will ever wise up. They have so whipped and beat down by the democrats that I think they may all have the “stockhome syndrome” ….
Trump is saving us.
My father was union. Printer. 40 years. His busiest years were when Reagan was prez. A strong business friendly president is a working man’s best friend. Period. E.O.S.
They might be shitting their pants.
cgh and DanBC, exactly, and to the point. These fellows seem to be boots on the ground types that actually want real jobs for their members, and not Marxist rhetorical pie in the sky phony green jobs that never materialize.
Contrast that to what I recall during the last election as Canadian Unions supporting the Gaia nonsense of a green economy rather than their members and the meat and potato jobs that they need for their families.
J, union guys are not liberals, it is just that they believed the lies about employers and the lies that the Marxist theoreticians actually cared about them and their families. Mind you some employers deserved all the union troubles they got. For example, in Russia, the union members believed the lies of the Bolos and when the Bolos formed government they promptly arrested the union leaders and put their government hacks in charge.
Expect this story to be completely suppressed, as it doesn’t fit with the narrative promulgated by the communists. What would happen if people suddenly came to the conclusion that Trump will be the friend of the workingman ? Maybe people would start to then realize that this so-called million woman march was actually a 1 million communist stooge march. But people part with comforting illusions so reluctantly.
I’m sure the MSM will be accusing Trump acting to fast. They’ll say
he shouldn’t be jumping into things like this without first
having an environment impact study done by the EPA to see
how these jobs are going to affect the habitat of the spotted j-lo
butt beatle.
Oh great now Trumpets all show their love for the mafia/terrorist scum called labour unions. Because these are trade unions you see, so clearly all is forgiven.
I’ve never been a fan of unions. The public service unions like the gov’t unions, mail, transit, teacher etc unions have me particularly anti-union … they add nothing to society.
I don’t begrudge a working man/women making a living if the union they belong to doesn’t use extortion as a negotiation stance … as public service unions are wont to do … at the expense of everyone else.
Some of the unions officials finally recognized with the “us” and “them” debate – who the “them” and “us” was.
Ken, as you well know,many trade unionists are NOT socialists or liberals,but their leaders at HQ level are mostly outright communists.
I was in several Unions over the years,private and government,was even a shop steward. I never met a Staff Rep or higher who wasn’t socialist at the least and the higher up the Union ranks they got,the more communist they seemed to be.
The commie rhetoric starts to fail when the job market dries up and all the bullshit about solidarity and “brotherhood” rings hollow.
I was in the bricklayers,our pay and benefits were fabulous for the time. Within a few years of my joining,the market dried up due to the expense of hiring Union tradesmen. The government passed legislation in 1985 forcing the Unions to accept non-Union workers on government/taxpayer funded jobsites. Soon the idea spread to all job sites so that the only totally Union sites left were the pulp mills,and even they would allow workers on site with a temporary card.
They weren’t happy, you may have seen the coverage on the News, but the Unions lost, those of us who had a modicum of common sense remaining put away our Union cards and went to work non-union. The pay was about 25% less but a lot better than the “zero” we’d have gotten if we stayed with the Union.
The Union reps used to come on the open jobsites and try to convince us to join up and “Keep the Union strong”.
They just wouldn’t listen to our reply that it was better to work non-Union than not work at all.
So far,Trump seems to be coming up with nothing but good stuff.
With their very existence unions explicitly violate the fundamental human freedom, the freedom of association. They have no right to exist, they are cancer, period. The reason there is so little of them left in private sector in US is that they have driven to bankruptcy the employers they infected. And now the idiot Trump is promising them that he will punish employers who resit unionization by moving abroad and that he will punish more productive foreign competition. No wonder that the goons love him. And so do the employers. Crony capitalism at its best. No incentive to innovate, no need to provide a better product, instead lobby for more punishment of the competitors. It will be high life for everyone except the consumers who will receive a $hit product at an uncompetitive price. But who cares about the consumers? Right Trumpets?
Unions are a major driver of inflation. If doesn’t matter whether they’re public or private sector.
Right to work legislation is just starting to make a breakthrough in many American states.
That means people who don’t want to kick out some of their paychecks to Unions and therefore don’t want to join them can still get hired in their field of choice.
Unions are long past their best before date. They have always been a power base for the Left.
Karl Marx didn’t invent trade unions, but he most assuredly put them on the political path that they’ve followed for nearly 200years.
It will be interesting to watch Trump’s presidency. How, for example, will this work with Right-to-Work laws?
The union bosses followed their members this time, who peobably all voted for Trump. Self-preservation for themselves.
From your comments you seem to be a Hillary Rotten Clinton fan, or would have voted for her.
Please tell us what she would have done or been different than the Spread your legs and Give our Nations Treasury to the tune of another 20 trillion dollars and join the North Korean starvation and Misery Plan?
Don’t ever forget, Ted Cruz could have beat Hillary and Her Obathroom Clown.
Be Advised-
What we really need is a 6 million swinging dicks march to let idiots in the Hitlery Socialist Party know we will vote again in two years.
If what we just witnessed actually shows that Trump is leading the union workers rather than the union leaders leading them, then this is a profound development. What Trump is trying to do is to form a movement for conservative change among the people, because all the institutions of American society are against fixing the rot. Apparently you assume Trump is in this for some other goal, which is your right.
Is there any chance that the Trump supporters are not blind but merely taking Trump at his word?
Can we agree a trading environment in which a government subsidizes every level of a supply chain as China has, in order to control tgat industry is not optimal? Attacking that, as Trump has, does not equal contempt for the consumers, wouldn’t you agree?
Your insinuation is also not consistent with Trump’s desire for a trade liberalization treaty with UK, which is a prime topic slated for day 5 of his admin. Could it be Trump is actually attempting to destroy institutions like the EU, like China, whose rise pose grave threats to liberty? The EU is the UN, by other means (as witnessed by the “refugee” flood into Germany. Could it be that Trump just binned TPP because it would have made permanent unlimited immigration to the US, or did he do it because he wants to limit the choices of consumers?
How, for example, will this work with Right-to-Work laws?
If unions could be seen as “fairly” representing their membership instead of mindlessly gleaning power with unreasonable demands, then workers might voluntarily join.
I believe that the UNIONS have s-l-o-w-l-y l-e-a-r-n-e-d that the Marxist Democrap Party is NOT their friend. They have been totally screwed by TPP, NAFTA, and the Obamakkare “Cadillac Tax”. All Trade UNIONS have listened and watched the giant sucking sound of jobs leaving the US. Ridiculously overwrought global warming justified regulations and barriers to business have KILLED their membership.
The ONLY UNION that has gotten fat and happy is the SEIU … government worker UNION.
Thank you Obama ! For showing the American public what Marxism does to an economy. With Hillary, bread lines would have been just around the corner
2020 – who to vote for? The crybaby whiny elites of the Democrats or the results oriented Republicans. Hillary might be crying about the 80 % deplorables voting Republican. I’ve never seen anyone abandon their base more than the Democrats. Well maybe Harper’s Conservatives.
Unions: herds of sheep, led by the wolves. With predictable results.
If the union leaders are happy, it’s only because they figure that Trump’s industry rebuild promises will give them more $$$$, power, and prestige. Unions and union-friendly legislation have been driving industries offshore for decades.
I well remember all the union bosses standing on the stages and laughin’ and scratchin’ with McGuinty and then Wynne. That was a good omen, eh?
“I’ve never seen anyone abandon their base more than the Democrats. Well maybe Harper’s Conservatives.”
It was a shame to lose Stephen Harper in many respects and he did a lot for Canada.
He liked the challenge of confrontation with his adversaries and he liked the satisfaction of beating them at their own game. What he failed to do was kill off the CBC which was a fatal mistake. He had the majority and would have revitalized his base.
He also fell into that age old problem that most politicians succumb to, namely liking the attention derived from power.
In the end, Steve got weary and allowed the media to frame him into a corner.
Where the Mike Duffy non story was concerned, all he had to do was simply say that the PM’s job is to nominate senators and the Senate’s job is to police their behavior.
End of story…skip the cover up.
There is a war going on, folks. That was the first salvo. Here is the second salvo:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/us/politics/donald-trump-administration.html?_r=0
Immediately after Trump pulls support from the unions, the Senate Dems remarkably pull out a $1 Trillion Infrastructure spending spree that, you guessed it, lays myriad new projects at the feet of the unions. Who are they going to support, do you think?
“What he failed to do was kill off the CBC which was a fatal mistake. ”
He failed to do more than that. He failed to nut and gut this climate change bullshit that is driving this Country into the poorhouse.
Orson; not saying you have democrat hopes or leanings; But why are you similar to the continuing; vested interest bought off Democrat Press; ignoring the Wisdom-YES wisdom of POTUS # 44.
He is not concerned about the Lame Duck Senate “hiding behind the curtains” Democrats. Besides why would he want to share the Glory with such a weak-on their knees led by Clown known a Senator Schumer.
The betas are billionaires.
He is not concerned about the Lame Duck Senate…
mikesr replied to comment from Orson | January 24, 2017 1:34 PM | Reply
Mike…if you think that the fact that more Senators identify themselves with a (R) next to their names makes the Democrats a “lame duck” gathering, you are being naïve.
Murkowski, Hatch, Collins, Tillis, McCain and even McConnell are by no means dependable. There are others. Some of those are even anticipating the opportunity to stick it to the new president and see it as an obligation.
My point above was that the Democrats in the Senate were prepared enough to shove this “stimulus” pork barrel union goodybag proposal out the day after the unions had nice things to say about the new administration. You are welcome to believe that the Senate is a done deal on anything the sitting president wants…but I won’t join you in that fantasy land.
@fearles:
“From your comments you seem to be a Hillary Rotten Clinton fan,”
Oh I see, and if I criticize Ogabe it means I am racist? Oh wait, this was the other side, got you confused for a second here.
@small c conservative:
I think you are being optimistic. But even if, Trump was to become a champion of organized labour it would not be a good thing. Appeasing your enemies does not make them friends. Unions do not help a working man they create a class of privileged workers at the expense of all other workers, employers that offer them a job and especially at the expense of consumers.
“Apparently you assume”
I do not assume, you do. You’re defending Trump when he does something that Bernie Sanders would applaud.
“Can we agree a trading environment in which a government subsidizes… is not optimal?”
Absolutely, and Trump seems to believe that his optimal approach is to do the same. And then you go on tangents. I did not say that everything Trump does is wrong, on the contrary I support most of things he has done so far. But I criticize him for playing with a pet rattlesnake.
@glasnost:
Sure, except that it still unjustly violates employers’ right not deal with unions. You can’t go around it.
@Kenji:
The reason private sector unions do not get fat and happy is because they kill the host. It is much easier for them to kill a private host than a public one.
“The ONLY UNION that has gotten fat and happy is the SEIU … government worker UNION.”
Oh really? Does GM/Chrysler bailout ring a bell? Remember how these pension companies, that make some crap cars on the side, took our money? Remember how non-unionized parts suppliers went bankrupt while the unionized stayed? Remember how they were squealing from joy, like pigs in $hit, when Ogabe introduced, at our expense, the idiotic, capital destroying “cash for clunkers” program to subsidize them further? Are you suffering from amnesia? These are the same people that benefit daily from the lock they hold on government car fleets. These are the people that Trump brought to oval office today. Shame.
Listen up Trumpets, you do not have go full Lewinski on Trump every time he does something. It is ok to criticize him when you disagree with a particular decision, especially one that is so blatantly idiotic as this. Really, try it one day and see how it feels.
@Jamie MacMaster:
Exactly.
Forgot to add:
“Is there any chance that the Trump supporters are not blind but merely taking Trump at his word?”
Are you ****ing kidding me? How is blindly believing any different than “taking Trump at his word”. Seriously, pause for a second and think. Are Trump supporters so devoid of their ability to analyze, so infatuated with him that they are no longer able to analyze his decisions? This isn’t, and should never be, a matter of faith. To quote Ricky from Trailrpark Boys, “This ain’t rocket Scientology”. Either Trump made the wrong decision or the right one, it is your responsibility as a Trump supporter to analyze this decision critically and not sing hosannas instead.