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AFL-CIO Glad to Be Rid of Rahm

By Prescott Carlson in News on Feb 26, 2011 4:00PM

Apparently it's not just the UAW that is not fond of our Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, the animosity goes even farther up. In a video of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka taken last weekend when he showed up in Madison, Wisconsin, in support of the union members protesting there, he seemed to be more than pleased that Emanuel had vacated Washington, D.C., to return to the Windy City.

When organized labor would rather deal with a fat cat banker and lawyer over you, that's saying something: