The
40,000-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union has dropped its ties
to the AFL-CIO in a letter that partly blames compromises over Obamacare.
The letter from
ILWU president Robert McEllrath to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, dated Aug.
29, sets out a list of the Longshoremen's complaints against the AFL-CIO. The
last page of the three-page letter accuses the AFL-CIO of "going along to get
along" with the Obama administration on healthcare, immigration reform, and
other issues.
"President
Obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009
AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our
benefits," McEllrath wrote. Instead, the AFL-CIO lobbied affiliates to support
the taxing of so-called "Cadillac" plans like the Longshoremen have
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