As all of you know I'm pro-labor. The labor movement is big, millions and millions of men and women. Big enough that there is always going to be differences of political opinion. That's all well and good. But when large unions with millions of members dollars play both sides of the fence, then this Teamster has something to say.
Two big players in the Change to Win Coalition are the Teamsters and the SEIU.
Workday Minnesota is reporting the story:UFCW, SEIU lead suit against Arizona immigration law. The UFCW and SEIU are pro-illegal immigration and pro-NAFTA.
On the other hand the Teamsters Rally to Keep Border Closed and Teamsters Oppose Trade Deal That Sells Out American Workers. The Teamsters are against NAFTA, especially the trucking laws allowing Mexican trucks on US highways.
The SEIU even protested our Teamsters shop, the Hennepin County jail recently because we hold illegal aliens for ICE. Imagine that, one Change to Win organization protesting another for doing their job!
So I'll discuss the elephant in organized labor's room. On the one hand we have the Teamsters wanting out of NAFTA and secure borders and on the other hand the SEIU wanting open borders and bleeding US jobs.
How can Change to Win simultaneously hold these two views. On the one hand secure borders and jobs and on the other not only supporting NAFTA but even allowing workers to illegally enter the US and take jobs from US workers.
Well, which is it? Is this about internationalism or U.S. jobs? Put me down for U.S. jobs.
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