Labor & Employment Law

Unions Say No to Tea Time in Alaska Senate Race

By Mike Hall

Alaskan voters couldn?t be facing two more different candidates for the U.S. Senate?Scott McAdams, endorsed by 49th state?s working family unions and Joe Miller backed by the Tea Party and endorsed by Sarah Palin.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says McAdams is a union person.

“He understands what union workers go through, he understands what workers go through, period. And I think that he?d be a great voice and a great asset to workers, in Washington, DC.”

Thanks to our friends at The Mudflats for providing this video.

Miller on the other hand, reports TPM?s Christina Bellatoni:

wants to eliminate the Department of Education, believes the government shouldn’t pay for unemployment insurance and says of climate change on his campaign site that it “may not even exist.”

[Miller says he] would cut welfare; eliminate health care for the poor by scrapping Medicaid; and the Anchorage Daily News reported that he has called for sweeping cuts to Medicare and Social Security with a goal of phasing them out entirely in favor of total privatization.

Trumka says the ?country doesn?t need a Joe Miller. We have enough of those in Washington, D.C., right now.?

Mitch McConnell is like a Joe Miller, if you will, wanting to do away with Social Security, wanting to do away with public education, wanting to do away with all kinds of things.

Watch the video for more on McAdams and click here to visit his website.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).