Joe Biden update: He meets with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka to talk about secret stuff

News report on LATimes.com 'Battle with unions widens in the Midwest':

The battle against unions in the Midwest escalated Wednesday as a second state, Indiana, effectively found itself trapped in a legislative stalemate.

All but three of the 40 Democratic members of the Indiana House of Representatives have temporarily moved to Illinois to avoid voting on legislation they consider to be anti-union.

Illinois is also where all 14 of the Democratic senators from Wisconsin sought sanctuary when they fled from Madison last week to block legislation that would have ended collective bargaining rights for public employee unions.

Public schedule of Vice President Joe Biden for Thursday, Feb. 24:

At 10:45 AM, the Vice President and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis will meet with President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka and with presidents of AFL-CIO labor organizations.

Whatever do you suppose they're plotting inside this transparent Obama administration White House?

Well, we'll never know. Because this meeting of an elected federal official with top labor union officers is closed to press.

Then there are the meetings with lobbyists held just off the executive office grounds to avoid reporting them in White House logs.

You are dismissed.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Photo: Michael P. King / via Associated Press (Trumka incites protesters outside the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Feb. 18, 2011).

Comments

[zayiflama]

Maybe if just ONE Palin fan/follower would ever dare to criticize ANY member of the Palin family, I might consider taking them seriously. But Palin fans/followers have become a cult = no criticism of the Dear Leader and her spawn allowed!

[tateofpa]

Wonder what this is all about, where is the press asking for more information?

[Chuck]

Joe Biden, Useful Idiot

[Chuck]

I am offended that my first comment was not posted. Here is what I said, in so many words;

Vice President Joe Biden is a shill for the Union. He is put out in the public eye to use his ever-diminishing popularity to make some nonsensical case in support of public unions. He knows it's a sham. He knows he is bought and paid for.

He only hopes that you don't know.

[Chuck]

Joe Biden is a great guy.

[Chuck]

If you are a Union Hack

[ew-3]

Is anyone at the white house paying attention to what is going on in Africa ?

Other countries started getting their nationals out of Libya several days ago, yet the US has done nothing.

The administration is voting present again.

[earl]

Can you do an expose' on Trumka someday? Just for kicks and grins?

[one person one vote]

Folks

I'm in a Union down south and I work for a private company. Both types of Unions have the same benefits and construction but the baseball field they play on is different. It looks like a baseball field but it not. The Public Sector has no real check and balances because it has no competition. Who will put the Government out of business? It continues to grow (more taxes) or it will cut services to pay for benefits or to allow benefits to increases. A private Business will have to negotiate with its union if it wants to say in business. You know, the customer can buy from the business down the street. But, the tax payers keeps getting taxed more and the delta for pay and benefits continues to grow between the Public Sector and the Private Sector. I enjoy that I’m in competition with the next guy. It keeps me alive and in tuned with the real world of economics. It’s time to cut some of the fat.

Southern Union Worker in a Private Business.

I copy an article that I believe has more truth about unions. Please read.

Notes From Babel
What’s the Difference Between Public and Private Sector Unions?

Collective bargaining in the public sector is fundamentally different than in the private sector. Put most simply, the government is not simply another market actor, because the government lacks the same economic incentives as private industry. Perhaps more importantly, the government is uniquely entrusted with the political power of the people to act for the benefit of the entire public. To provide to a special interest group unique tools and procedures to use as leverage to wrest that power for itself is anti-democratic and tyrannical. Finally, the public sector collective bargaining, unlike in the private sector, permits a union political leverage over the employer, making negotiations less than arms’ length.
For all these reasons, it cannot plausibly be maintained that there is no meaningful distinction between the ways public sector unions wield collective bargaining rights and the ways private sector unions do.

[catmman]

The administration getting its weekly marching orders, eh?

[MisterBee]

"Whatever do you suppose they're plotting inside this transparent Obama administration White House?

Well, we'll never know. Because this meeting of an elected federal official with top labor union officers is closed to press.

Then there are the meetings with lobbyists held just off the executive office grounds to avoid reporting them in White House logs."

OK, will someone tell me again why supporting a "community organizer" for Commander in Chief was a good idea? And how many of you who cheered his election are now scratching your heads saying, "Duh, gee. That's not what he promised us!" All you Leftists happy, content, and satisfied now?

[Red Pill]

"President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history…"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov/

[aday]

Well, since Trumka is visiting the WH so regularly, he might as well have a weekly meeting with Biden too, right?

[wayne]

I can guess...

"Hey Barack...we are going to have to take some of these Rethug governors and legislators out...you and Holder got our backs right?

Don't worry Trum...no media will ever show what was done. When I declare Marshall Law and round the rest up to "bring back the peace" after the Rethugs caused all of this bloodshed by violating your people's rights, we'll round up Fat Rush and that Nazi Beck for instigating it all.

The public will only hear that we were forced to round these scum up protect them from Rethug violence and we won't be havin' any more of that "Teabaggers winning elections" crap, either.

We won in 2008 and that was the end of the discussion, Trum. Take out whoever you have to...we rule. If you need any help from us, just tweet me.

[Se]

These democrats who moved out of state because they don't want to vote on bills they think will not go their way, are nothing but frauds. They do not work for tax paying people. These democrats pledge their allegiance to the fat public unions, (see one member in photo above), who drain tax payers of money to keep themselves richly funded and to help get these democrats elected to office again and again. I's time for this to stop.

[Appalled]

Good to see Joe Biden involved. Unions are for working Americans. Corporations cater to greed, power and wealth. Joe is for middle class America. He has always cared to working America. He'd be a great president.

Now the rest of you can go ahead and kiss the arses of the Kocks and other greedy corporations. I thank unions for child labor laws, decent pay, 5-day work-weeks, and vacation time...for all, not just the weathy business owners and select workers. Without unions, greed and power will move back into the American workers' lives at record speed. None of us want unions, but they are a necessity. If all businesses, especially corporations, treated workers fairly, we would not need unions.

[sueinmi]

Joe's gotta protect his cash cow. Elections approaching.

[Barry Hussein]

Trumka is making sure that Biden and Obozo work to keep the revenue stream flowing for the Union Bosses. If he really cared about his union members he would be lobbying for deportation of Illegal aliens and decreased immigration. Unfortunately that would make way too much sense.

[steve]

Bye bye public sector unions, it has been real but it has definitely not been good, don't let the door hit you in the a** as you leave, bon voyage, we don't want you or need you nor will we miss you, we don't accept or allow you to exist, don't fight it, you don't have to go away mad, just go away, there may be a place for you in other parts of the world, but definitely not this world.

[Tea]

Richard Trumka reminds me of Hitler, he dont care about the people he just wants there money and the power that goes with it.