Labor Radio Host, Kentucky Labor Leaders Say ‘Thanks, Mitch!’

[Omaha Steve]

Charles Showalter

http://nhlabornews.com/2016/04/labor-radio-host-kentucky-labor-leaders-say-thanks-mitch/

By BERRY CRAIG
AFT Local 1360

The host of a nationally-syndicated labor radio talk show wants union members to “thank” Sen. Mitch McConnell for his “help” with the Friedrichs case.

“He refuses to even consider a Supreme Court nominee from President Obama,” said Charles Showalter, whose Pittsburgh-based “The Union Edge: Labor’s Talk Radio” program is broadcast from coast to coast. “The high court, by a 4-4 tie, upheld a lower court decision favoring unions.”

In Rebecca Friedrichs, et al., vs. California Teachers Association, et al., the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected a teacher’s claim that having to contribute a “fair share fee” to the CTA to help pay for collective bargaining abridged her right to free speech.

Showalter, a member of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, got the idea to “thank” the unabashedly anti-union McConnell from Jeff Wiggins, a Kentucky labor leader.

FULL story at link.

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1. Good one

You know it just burns him up that this happened.

“Thanks, Mitch, you finally did something for labor,” said a grinning Wiggins, president of United Steelworkers Local 9447 and president of the Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council.

Love it!