Union Leader: "We begged Hillary to speak out against fast track trade authority, and she wouldn't"

[imagine2015]

The Pennsylvania Federation BMWED-IBT represents and protects the rights of America's rail workers who construct, maintain, and inspect the railroad track and structures, and in some cases the electric catenary system on the following roads:

Akron and Barberton Belt Railroad Co., Amtrak - (Former Penn Central), Chicago Union Station Company, Washington Terminal Company, The Canton Railroad Company, Norfolk Southern Railway Company (Former Consolidated Rail Corporation - Baltimore & Eastern Railroad, Buffalo Creek Railroad, Ironton Railroad Company, The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, Penn Central (PRR), Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, Monongahela Railway Company), CSX Transportation, Inc. (Former Consolidated Rail Corporation - Baltimore & Eastern Railroad, Buffalo Creek Railroad, York Rail (formerly Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad), Middle Fork Railroad Company, and Western Maryland Railway Company.
The Pennsylvania Federation is affiliated with the Teamsters Union

Bernie Sanders endorsed at Convention

August 5, 2015 - The Pennsylvania Federation BMWED-IBT unanimously passes a resolution endorsing Bernie Sanders for President of the United States while calling on workers to unite against the power of concentrated wealth and its corruption of our democracy.
Larry Cohen, the outgoing president of the Communications Workers of America spoke to Penn Fed delegates at our 22nd Regular Convention. The longtime leader of one of the country’s most powerful labor unions is joining the Democratic presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and he says presumed frontrunner Hillary Clinton made it an easy call.

Cohen said he will serve as an unpaid volunteer for Sanders as the Vermont senator seeks the Democratic nomination. One of the main factors in his decision, Cohen said, was Clinton’s equivocation on granting President Barack Obama so-called fast-track authority on his mammoth trade deal.

“I did everything I knew how to do to get Clinton to speak out on fast track, and she wouldn’t,” said Cohen, whose 10 years leading CWA came to an end in June. "We begged her to speak out."

Cohen, a staunch progressive, said Clinton's handling of the trade issue helped clarify why he wanted to get behind Sanders, whose candidacy is still considered a long shot despite standing-room-only crowds he's been drawing early on the trail. Sanders has been a vocal critic of giving Obama fast-track trade authority.

“Without a candidate like Bernie, we’re going to get a repeat of the same stuff," Cohen said. "Bernie is movement-building, and we need a new movement. We need to get big money out of politics."

http://www.pennfedbmwe.org/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=514877

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

1. Did they pay her $225,000 Speaking fee?

Then how would they expect to get any special favors...

[imagine2015]

3. No. The unions don't have as much money as Wall Street banksters. They can't afford her fees.

[Jackilope]

2. Yep. Kick and Rec. n/t

[Chasstev365]

4. BECAUSE SHE IS A REPUBLICAN!

And they say Bernie is not a democrat! It's obvious that many Hillary supporters have no concept of the party or its history.

[Lizzie Poppet]

5. No way she'd buck her paymasters.

That would require actual principles.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

6. The people of Pennsylvania will need to decide if they want someone who will help unions

or someone who will not. They'll need to decide whether to vote for a documented liar or an honest person. I think it's going to be very close.

[reformist2]

7. "We need to get big money out of politics." That's the refrain we should all be repeating, over and

over and over!

[Sparkly]

8. On the Issues...

http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Hillary_Clinton_Free_Trade.htm

[Dragonfli]

10. Quoting what she "claims" doe's not erase the truth or the actual circumstance posted in the OP

So, can you answer the OP?
They stated a fact, what they begged her for and how she refused, Hilary often claims one thing but does another, in fact, it is her most well known trait.

[IdaBriggs]

11. That would be more helpful if there were date stamps so we could keep

track of which positions she is CURRENTLY holding, as opposed to the ones she held before she changed her mind the last time.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

12. thanks for the proof that she is a liar

not that is is hard to find

tell me about her trip to bosnia

lol

[rhett o rick]

13. LOL. We don't buy that schit. A ploy to get votes. Convenient change of attitude just

before an election. Tell her to condemn NAFTA and the WTO. She is in the pocket of big corporations and doesn't give a schit about the workers in this country. While her and Bill count their hundreds of millions the working class is struggling no thanks to the Clintons and Bush's.

This is a class war and the Clinton Aristocracy sure as hell aint on our side.

[tokenlib]

21. You should know better than to believe the creative writing on her website....

With Hillary, you have to look at her free trade record. And then if you must see something in print, there is always a chance the truth is hiding on the Third Way website.

[jwirr]

9. They begged her to denounce TPP but she would not. Now

after Bernie is pushing her for the win she is saying that she does not support it.

Cohen's words is why I do not believe her. IF she were truly against it she would have not taken that much time to come out against it.

[HughLefty1]

23. The head of the Chamber of Commerce (Tom Donahue) is fully expecting her to support TPP

After the election. You can easily research it.

[bjo59]

28. Every time I hear it reported that Hillary changed her position on the TPP...

I roll my eyes and can feel my lip starting to curl. It doesn't matter what she says in a debate or in an interview, that is just so obviously false. "Free trade" agreements like the TPP are a cornerstone of globalization and Hillary is a staunch globalist (or, if you prefer, global corporatist).

[BernieforPres2016]

14. Apparently they didn't go to Davos. Hillary did speak out on Fast Track Authority there in 1998.

Hillary complained about progressives and people on the right who were opposed to so called free trade, and got on business leaders for not being aggressive enough in pushing against them to get Fast Track provisions for Bill.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/21/401123124/a-timeline-of-hillary-clintons-evolution-on-trade

<"Now again, I have to conclude that either American business doesn't care about opening markets around the world — but I find that very hard to believe — or they feel that their involvement in politics is something that they wish to minimize or steer clear of and don't want to become participants in any effort to pass such legislation, or some other reason that I have yet to understand. But the effect was the same. For whatever reason, the fact that the American business community made a very limited effort on behalf of the fast track, left the field completely clear to the rather unusual alliance between the right of the Republican party, which is isolationist, anti-American engagement, quite critical and not supportive of the United Nations, IMF or any multilateral group, and the left of the Democratic party that believes that trade authority, and trade agreements are not in the interests of American workers. So that alliance carried the day. Now when the President comes back to the Congress with a request for fast track authority I hope that American business voices will be heard.>

[imagine2015]

15. Hillary was for and against fast track before she was for it and is totally against it today

But she may support a new and improved fast track authority .... or she may not.

Isn't her position perfectly clear?

[ibegurpard]

16. But Bernie thought

The New York subway still takes tokens so there's that...

[imagine2015]

17. Do they run on a fast track?

[tokenlib]

22. Bernie is more honest remembering tokens than Hillary remembering workers...

..those cards are only a recent development for A LOT OF US!

[Cheese Sandwich]

18. How did I miss this

I used to read DU for campaign news. Now everything good is buried under a sea of nasty content.

[ibegurpard]

19. certainly worth keeping kicked

Although the Popegate threads are MOST entertaining.

[Avalux]

20. Fantastic News! Good for Bernie in PA.

[imagine2015]

24. Kick for weekend DU'ers

[arcane1]

25. Posts like this are the reason GDP posts don't appear on the home page.

We can't make the employer of DU admin's family look TOO bad, can we?

[Avalon Sparks]

26. It's all about the money

Kaching

[imagine2015]

30. And that's why Hillary Clinton was called the Senator from Wall Street

[SamKnause]

27. It is all about her.

She doesn't care about us.

#Not With Her; Never

[99Forever]

29. This exposes the REAL Hillary Goldman Sachs Clinton.

In the tank for for her BIG $$$$$$ cronies. Corrupt beyond redemption.

[Avalon Sparks]

31. Kick

[Uncle Joe]

32. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, imagine2015.

[AzDar]

33. That's our sHillary... Those propping up this shameless fraud of a Progressive should be ashamed.