Andy Stern’s a thug, and he’s threatening Democrats to pass health care or the union will withhold its support in the mid term elections.
“It’s gonna be incredibly difficult to stay focused on national politics if by the end of 2010 we have minimal health care and minimal changes on what’s important to our members,” he said in an interview, ridiculing the emerging Dem approach as “fear masquerading as a strategy.”
Stern unloaded on Dem leaders in resonse to reports today that they’re mulling either a scaled down bill to win GOPers or a broken up bill passed in pieces. His anger suggests Dems risk paying a big price with labor if they fail to figure out how to pass the Senate bill and fix it later, as labor wants.
Stern hinted that if House and Senate members don’t move forward with the Senate bill and some kind of fix, they could see union members spending more time on races for governor, perhaps at the expense of their reelection campaigns. “If something significant doesn’t happen in Congress, I hope the legislators appreciate that there are 37 governors races important to our members,” Stern said suggestively. ….
Any question as to who’s callin the shots in Washington these days? But even the powerful unions are going to find it difficult to ram their agenda down the throats of the nearly 90% of Americans that aren’t in a union. Heck, even their own members aren’t on board with the agenda.
Hot Air has more and American Power finds some on the left are Abandoning Obama.
Via memeorandum
Hilarous. This is the same SEIU that basically wasted $899,000 in union dues for radio and TV ads alone for Coakley’s campaign.
Might as well have flushed it down the toilet.
Money well spent, Andy.
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The next administration should pursuit Andy Stern under RICO statues. He’s a radical Marxist union thug with organization and intent.
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Unions are nothing more than the Mafia. Who’s surprised by this, really? The rank and file are, for the most part, just hard-working Americans. The leadership is nothing but thugs.
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Dems are a lot of things but they aren’t all that stupid.
They know that they need to change their tune or find themselves un-elected.
Some Repubs too.
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Andy Stern should have step down a long time ago, it is a shame he has been given a position by the Obama administration. I am now retired and was a member of Seiu for forty years. I came up through the rank and file and retired as a Business Rep. And Contract Negotiator. Guess what folks!!!!! This very same Union that promoted Healthcare Reform doesn’t provide healthcare to this Retiree!!!!!!It was taken away from me by the Secretary/Treasurer because of her inoffice politics. As a past hardcore Union Member, I would not give you a wooden nickel for SEIU Healthcare Michigan, Detroit.
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Sorry to hear that Mary. My beef with the unions is that the leaders are out for themselves. They don’t care who they bankrupt.
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