Union Influence with the Obama Administration

[FrankRep]

http://www.thenewamerican.com/images/stories2011/11aFebruary/obamatrumka-t-ap.001.jpg
President Barack Obama stands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka



In a popular video, the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka leans back, drapes his arms over the chairs, and reports that he is a weekly visitor of the White House, sometimes as often as a couple of times a week. “I have conversations every day with someone in the White House or in the administration,” he proclaims. “Every day.”


Union Influence with the Obama Administration (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/6432-union-influence-with-the-obama-administration)


Raven Clabough | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
23 February 2011

[FrankRep]

http://www.site.politca.com/images/seiu_meeting4.jpg


Fuse is Lit: Obama and Unions to Take the WI Uproar Nationally. SEIU Solidarity Rallies (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?280526-Fuse-is-Lit-Obama-and-Unions-to-Take-the-WI-Uproar-Nationally.-SEIU-Solidarity-Rallies)

[Zippyjuan]

Which is it- pro or anti union? From 2009:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/17/obama-schools-education-contributors-unions.html

Education unions have spent millions in supporting Obama and other Democratic candidates, and also have spent millions in opposing the introduction of market-based incentives that would reward good teachers and good schools, and that would eliminate bad teachers and turn bad schools over to new administration.

But Obama proposed a broad set of reforms that significantly clash with education union objectives, and which, if enacted, would substantially weaken the stranglehold unions have had on American public education for decades.

In a speech last week, the president strongly supported market-based incentives, including merit pay for teachers and the expansion of charter schools, which tend to be non-union schools. The president said, "It's time to start rewarding good teachers, stop making excuses for bad ones … Too many supporters of my party have resisted the idea of rewarding excellence in teaching, even though we know it can make a difference in the classroom … the same stale debates have paralyzed progress and perpetuated our educational decline."

[FrankRep]

Uncovered Video Obama Leads SEIU Chant After Vowing to Paint the Nation Purple


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQj-xBH30-I


Shocking Level of Influence: Trumka Talks to White House EVERY DAY and Visits a Couple Times A Week


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4NrT2oTQqE