I should have just told Richard Trumka to take all the new jobs in the hospitality industry he boasts that Democrats created to take them and shove them up his ass..
If this was the Chinese government treating working people this way Richard Trumka would be screaming bloody murder... but, here in our own country where the Wall Street financed Democratic Party he supports created this mess for two-million casino workers just as they wage these dirty wars and deny the American people the right to a national public health care system and public child care, Trumka remains completely silent in the face of this massive injustice.
Casino workers are thoroughly fed up with Richard Trumka's and his Democratic Party's hypocrisy.
These mobsters who operate and manage the Indian Gaming Industry have bank-rolled Barack Obama's campaign to the tune of millions upon millions of dollars which has purchased silence surrounding the "Compacts" these same mobsters bribed politicians to get in the first place... "Compacts" intentionally designed by the Democrats intended to deny working people their rights and assure the bosses greater profits through poverty wages and unsafe an unhealthy working environments.
Let Richard Trumka go work in these smoke-filled casinos and see what great jobs are like that have been created by the Democrats in the "hospitality industry."
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
I have had a large number of private message responses to this post... I guess a lot of people do not feel comfortable addressing this issue publicly... let me provide everyone with what my combined responses amount to:
I have met with the p...residents and staff of the Minnesota AFL-CIO and John Sweeney when he was AFL-CIO President along with Andy Stern when he was head of national organizing for the AFL-CIO. All meetings took place at THEIR requests and they refused all assistance.
Further, the United Steelworker's national head of organizing threatened me if we didn't discontinue our organizing and stop the attacks on the Democrats and one of the top officers of the IAM sent me the most disgustingly racist letter imaginable... which I turned over to Jody Beaulieu, the archivist for the Red Lake Nation.
The AFL-CIO refuses to take a stand on any of this. In fact, several locals around Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan were warned by Trumka not to even allow me to speak at their union meetings.
On top of this we had three casino operations here in Minnesota ready to bargain with us--- Red Lake Gaming Enterprises, Fortune Bay Casino and Resort and Shooting Star Casino; both the Teamsters and SEIU moved in and told managements, "Don't bargain with those commies, we will give you a better deal."
On top of this, the AFL-CIO agreed to sweetheart deals (still maintained by both the AFL-CIO and CTW) that enables building trades unions' members jobs in casino construction where union members would get jobs working on these casinos as long as there would be:
1.) no signed contracts,
2.) no business managers allowed on the construction sites; and
3.) no attempts made to organize casino workers.
The Indian Gaming Industry is one web of corruption from beginning to end that the Democratic Party and the AFL-CIO along with Change To Win is mired in up to there noses and they are going to suffocate themselves in their own shit.
Mark Dayton got a good taste of the way we are going to be operating when we forced him to agree to take up our concerns and agree to the idea of building state-owned/state-managed casinos to compete with the Indian Gaming Industry. Dayton had to come begging to us for our support in order to win the Primary Election. Without our support Mark Dayton would not have won his very narrow Primary victory. Other politicians beware! We sunk the aspirations of Valorie Solem, Mike Hatch and Tom Bakk and we are going to continue our very unique organizing campaign exposing this corruption between the labor fakers, the politicians and organized crime which profits from these casino operations in the Indian Gaming Industry.
By the way... it was our efforts that forced Mark Dayton to take a public stand to declare that he would enforce affirmative action in Minnesota which is opposed by the Republicans and not being enforced pursuant to federal Executive Order #11246 by Obama and his Administration.
Our Organizing Committees and our Organizing Councils are very proud to be in the forefront of organized labor in taking firm stands on a number of very important issues on which if our voice was not being heard liberals, progressives and the left would have no voice at all because they have been too bamboozled by these crooked politicians and labor fakers who care more about their campaign contributions from the Indian Gaming Associations than they do about the rights and standard of living of working people across the board.
There is nothing difficult to understand that when there are two-million casino/hotel/restaurant/theme park/hospitality workers employed under these most despicable, unsafe and unhealthy working conditions at poverty wages and without any rights; these workers will be used as a club over the heads of all workers in this country as surely as any policeman's billy-club.
I further point out that the former President of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, Ray Waldron, upon inviting me to come talk to him in his office told me:
"I'm not going to let a bunch of Reds take over our state fed. Not a bunch of Indians. Not a bunch of Communists."
Racism and red-baiting truly is the refuge for all those scheming to deprive working people of a voice at work, their rights and livelihoods... one expects this from the bosses but not from those who claim to "lead" the labor movement.
Feel free to share my response with ANYONE.
Thanks for your concern---
Yours in solidarity and struggle,
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
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