ckaihatsu
2nd August 2017, 14:08
Does the working class in Illinois need a billionaire to represent its interests?
The Illinois Federation of Labor has hit bottom.
WGN today aired the IFL's new political endorsement campaign video, backing J B Pritzker against Bruce Rauner in the next gubernatorial election.
Pritzker is a Billionaire, same as Rauner. Instead of our state’s union leadership searching for ways to independently break from the Democratic Party of Clinton and imperialism, they sink further into the quagmire of corporatism. (Penny Pritzker, another billionaire in that family and notorious for her role on Mayor Emanuel's Board of Education, was the money bags behind the sudden viability of Obama’s run for President, for which she was rewarded when he appointed her Secretary of Commerce.)
But the labor movement is too weak to create a third political party of the working class and its allies! Absolutely false.
To quote Alan Benjamin, San Francisco Labor Council Executive Committee member:
Just in the 2016 presidential election, the unions spent $400 million to support Clinton; SEIU alone put up $70 million. The unions mobilized tens of thousands of canvassers and knocked on 9.5 million doors, according to the AFL-CIO. They spent $40 million alone in registering new voters.
The labor movement in 2016 had half a billion dollars and formidable organizational resources to micturate down the drain for the Democratic Party and Clinton. That kind of money and energy is there for a new, 3rd political party. But the union leadership that is married to the Democratic Party is apparently doing everything in their power to strangle this potential, this now with the IFL’s insolent and provocative Pritzker endorsement.
Illinois and Chicago-area unionists should immediately begin democratic discussions and meetings that will lay the foundation for a new, third party. We must publicly rebuke the IFL’s Pritzker announcement. We don’t need a billionaire to defend us; untie our hands so that we may defend ourselves!
Larry Duncan
member CWA 14408/Chicago Typographical 16, retired
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JB Pritzker being cheered on by the UFCW
The Illinois Federation of Labor has hit bottom.
WGN today aired the IFL's new political endorsement campaign video, backing J B Pritzker against Bruce Rauner in the next gubernatorial election.
Pritzker is a Billionaire, same as Rauner. Instead of our state’s union leadership searching for ways to independently break from the Democratic Party of Clinton and imperialism, they sink further into the quagmire of corporatism. (Penny Pritzker, another billionaire in that family and notorious for her role on Mayor Emanuel's Board of Education, was the money bags behind the sudden viability of Obama’s run for President, for which she was rewarded when he appointed her Secretary of Commerce.)
But the labor movement is too weak to create a third political party of the working class and its allies! Absolutely false.
To quote Alan Benjamin, San Francisco Labor Council Executive Committee member:
Just in the 2016 presidential election, the unions spent $400 million to support Clinton; SEIU alone put up $70 million. The unions mobilized tens of thousands of canvassers and knocked on 9.5 million doors, according to the AFL-CIO. They spent $40 million alone in registering new voters.
The labor movement in 2016 had half a billion dollars and formidable organizational resources to micturate down the drain for the Democratic Party and Clinton. That kind of money and energy is there for a new, 3rd political party. But the union leadership that is married to the Democratic Party is apparently doing everything in their power to strangle this potential, this now with the IFL’s insolent and provocative Pritzker endorsement.
Illinois and Chicago-area unionists should immediately begin democratic discussions and meetings that will lay the foundation for a new, third party. We must publicly rebuke the IFL’s Pritzker announcement. We don’t need a billionaire to defend us; untie our hands so that we may defend ourselves!
Larry Duncan
member CWA 14408/Chicago Typographical 16, retired
https://s1.postimg.org/f4zz1oycf/20170801_JB_Pritzker_being_cheered_on_by_the_UFC.j pg (https://postimg.org/image/es8kvig2j/)
JB Pritzker being cheered on by the UFCW