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September 6, 2010

Michelle Malkin: Remembering Labor's Legacy Of Violence

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Americans ought to take a break from their labor day activities, long enough to reflect on the kind of people their day off from work and our president are celebrating:

[...] To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in Milwaukee and pose as champions of the working class. Bad move. Trumka's organizing record is a shameful reminder of the union movement's violent and corrupt foundations.

The new Obama/AFL-CIO power alliance -- underwritten with $40 million in hard-earned worker dues -- is a midterm shotgun marriage of Beltway brass knuckles and Big Labor brawn.

Trumka warmed up his rhetorical muscles this past week with full-frontal attacks on former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He indignantly accused her of "getting close to calling for violence" and suggested that her criticism of Tea Party-bashing labor bosses amounted to "terrorizing" workers.

Trumka and Obama will cast Big Labor as an unassailable force for good in American history. But when it comes to terrorizing workers, Trumka knows whereof he speaks.

[...] In Illinois, Trumka told UMW members to "kick the s**t out of every last" worker who crossed his picket lines, according to the Nashville (Ill.) News. And as the National Right to Work Foundation, the leading anti-forced-unionism organization in the country, pointed out, other UMW coal field strikes resulted in what one judge determined were "violent activities . . . organized, orchestrated and encouraged by the leadership of this union."

This is not to say that there wasn't a time when unions played a positive role in America (Labor Day originated in Chicago), back in the beginning days of the labor movement when the average workday was 12 hours and the thuggery was mostly directed by captains of industry. My, have times changed. Nowadays, Democrats and labor unions have joined hands in what has become a symbiotic relationship of two institutions with the same objective - the destruction of capitalism and individual liberty and freedom (Obama's former "Green Jobs Czar" actually admitted this).

Update: AFL-CIO Prez Trumka Bashes Tea Party Patriots at Obama Rally (Video)