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AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka Is a Thug’s Thug

by News on November 3, 2011

in Union Politics and Transparency

By Matthew Vadum/Big Government

Richard Trumka is a thug’s 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 7th.

Like many union leaders, occasionally the slippery Trumka pretends to like capitalism. He supports vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, not because he actually believes in them but because his members work in industries that depend on their enforcement. Turning a blind eye to the manufacture of counterfeit machine parts could put union members out of work.

http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2011/11/03/afl-cios-richard-trumka-is-a-thugs-thug/

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