Citing Obamacare, (and Immigration) 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO

[BoomBen]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

The dock workers leaving is a huge statement.

Hopefully The workers realized the union has become exactly what they portend to fight against - greed, cronyism and corruption.
The worker is better off being on their own in 2013.

[pghquest]

Whats funny is I argued with numerous left wing kooks here about how Obamacare was very harmful to unions, and they didnt have a clue what I was talking about.

[parfleche]

One of the reasons the United Brotherhood of Carpenters left in 2001 was their dues supporting only dem policies.I was a member and have lots of family some pretty high up still active in the UBC andremember it well.This received little press at the time.

[Goinback2011]

This is what happened to the Democrats in the late 1960's and early 1970's when they jettisoned their existing southern and labor constituencies for the New Left and blacks.

Pretty funny.

[rso092]

Originally Posted by momonkey

The only real purpose of Obamacare is to destroy private insurance so that there no alternative to a single payer system.

Quoted for truth.

If anyone thinks that isn't what the ACA was about, they are delusional.