Trumka Silent On Massachussetts Restrictions To Collective Bargaining

From: The Daily Caller

In the traditionally far-left Massachusetts statehouse, House Democrats passed legislation this week that strips municipal public sector workers of their right to collectively bargain on health insurance plans. The bill has yet to make it to the state Senate or Gov. Deval Patrick, but national labor leaders like AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, National Education Association (NEA) President and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Mary Kay Henry don’t seem eager to get involved. Notorious left-wing advocate and filmmaker Michael Moore hasn’t showed up or weighed in either, nor has self-proclaimed civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson.

SEIU’s Massachusetts Political Director Harris Gruman told The Daily Caller he’s not worried about national labor leaders’ lack of support, either, and expects Patrick and Senate President Therese Murray to fight for their cause. “It is a Democrat-controlled legislature, so it’s absolutely newsworthy that they would do anything to take on any workers’ rights,” Gruman told TheDC. “We never support any decrease in workers losing a voice over conditions of work. But, the governor has said he absolutely believes in collective bargaining as a right.”