There they go again: Biden, McGrath and the "U" word
By BERRY CRAIG
AFT Local 1360
In yet another speech, Joe Biden talked jobs and used the word Donald Trump never uses when he talks jobs.
Union.
Okay, the AFL-CIO-endorsed Democrat was speaking to a union crowd at UFCW Local 951 headquarters in Grand Rapids, Mich. Trump avoids union crowds like the plague.
Biden again promised that his economic policies would create more "good paying union jobs."'
Trump ran in 2016 on a pledge to stop the hemorrhaging of U.S jobs to cheap-labor countries abroad and to bring American jobs "home." It was a con.
His "erratic, ego-driven, and inconsistent trade policies have not achieved any measurable progress, despite the newly combative rhetoric," wrote the Economic Policy Institute's Robert E. Scott.
"On top of that, COVID-19—and the administration’s mismanagement of the crisis—has wiped out much of the last decade’s job gains in U.S. manufacturing."
Indeed, the president's abject failure to provide leadership in fighting the coronavirus epidemic helped tank the economy. (His personal refusal to mask and take other necessary precautions to protect himself and others has landed him in the hospital.)
It's no wonder Trump gives union halls a wide berth. We've been on to his con from the start.
"Trump’s record of slashing rules designed to protect us on the job, cutting workplace health and safety inspectors to their lowest level in history, and taking away overtime pay from millions of workers are just a few ways working people have been hurt by the current administration," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in announcing the federation's endorsement of Biden. "Worse yet, America’s working families and communities are suffering because of Trump’s delinquent, delayed, disorganized and deadly response to the coronavirus."
We know Biden is in our corner. "“Joe Biden is a lifelong supporter of workers and has fought his entire career for living wages, health care, retirement security and civil rights,” Trumka added. “Our members know Joe has done everything he could to create a fairer process for forming and joining a union, and he is ready to fight with us to restore faith in America and improve the lives of all working people.”
Trump's just another Wall Street union-buster. He's for "right to work." Biden's not. Click here, here, here, here and here. The Trump administration is anti-union from top to bottom. Click here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Like Trump, Sen. Mitch McConnell despises unions. Click here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
McConnell is the president's chief Capitol Hill enabler when it comes to Trump's whole anti-union, anti-worker, anti-democratic and racist agenda. McConnell cheered when Kentucky became a right to work state. He's all in for a national RTW law.
Amy McGrath, the Kentucky State AFL-CIO-endorsed Democrat who wants McConnell's job, is anti-RTW and pro-union. When she talks jobs, she talks union jobs. Click here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
So vote -- absentee by mail, early or masked in-person--to Ditch Mitch and Dump Trump. But don't stop there. Gov. Beshear needs help in the state House and Senate. Also mark your ballot for our other endorsed candidates. Click here to see who they are.