Union members say lawmakers launching attack on the working people (Kentucky)

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http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article125140549.html

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Angry labor union members on Saturday said they don’t know how they became public enemy No. 1 in Kentucky’s 2017 legislative session. Hundreds of workers in boots and heavy coats poured onto every public floor of the state Capitol to loudly protest final passage of three bills that they say will weaken unions and reduce construction workers’ wages.

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Bill Londrigan, president of the Kentucky AFL-CIO, said some union members who came to the Capitol in recent days to protest legislation are social conservatives who voted for Republican politicians. Now they’re watching a newly Republican-led legislature pass measures that will cut their paychecks, Londrigan said.

“Believe me, we’re well aware that many of our members went to the polls last November and voted the straight Republican ticket to elect Donald Trump, not thinking about who else they were putting into local and state office and how that was going to impact their families,” Londrigan said in an interview.

“So that’s why we’re bringing them up here now, so they can see the consequences of their actions,” Londrigan said. “And maybe the next time they will believe their unions when we tell them to vote for their own economic interests.”

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2. They did not understand Republican message: Where work is a right, pay is a privilege.

These voters had to have know that Trump runs his Florida palace on imported, low-pay, seasonal workers who "do the jobs that supposedly no American-not one out of millions- is willing to do. Trump is thus forced to import semi slave workers who are bound to their employer-importer until they are shipped out at the end of the season.

They had to have known that Trump has a long history of not paying workers just like them.

They thought they were members of a white club -but now they know their white legislators don't see it that way.