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Union Gangsters: Richard Trumka
Posted by Matthew Vadum
Sep 30th, 2011
Richard Trumka is a thugs thug, and a crafty one at that.
The AFL-CIO boss believes the end justifies the means. Breaking the law is acceptable if it advances the cause. Unions should forget about the law; this is about more than that, he said at the Future of Unions roundtable in Detroit on April 7.
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But unlike most high-profile leftists, Trumka doesnt even make an effort to conceal his radicalism. Being called a socialist is a step up for me, he told Bloomberg News in June. In 1994, Trumka proudly accepted the Eugene Debs Award named after the five-time presidential candidate and labor organizer who founded the Socialist Party of America.
As an AFL-CIO executive, Trumka helped to create Union Summer, a program for training young people as organizers and political activists. Participants were made to recite a pledge called Working Class Commitment that included the Marxist idea that we [union workers] produce the worlds wealth [and] will end all oppression.
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His 2011 compensation package at AFL-CIO totaled $293,750, according to LM-2 disclosure forms on file with the U.S. Department of Labor. Trumka apparently lives in a four-bathroom house assessed at $747,650 in Rockville, MD, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
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Trumka bears more than a passing resemblance to legendary gangster Al Capone, who ruled Chicagoland with an iron fist during the Prohibition Era.
Like Capone, Trumka stays close to his politicians. Trumka brags about his coziness with the Obama administration. Im at the White House a couple times a week two, three times a week, he said. I have conversations every day with someone in the White House or in the administration. Every day. Soon after being inaugurated, President Obama named Trumka to his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which is akin to inviting an arsonist to advise on fire safety.
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Union Gangsters: Richard Trumka | FrontPage Magazine