Yeah, McEntee just might have stepped in it this time

Glad to see it happen. He may not win, but he’s going in the right direction. Rahm’s a bully – politically popping him in the nose is a good tactic. He just needs to keep trying to connect.

Go Gutierrez!

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this man could replace McEntee

http://www.inthesetimes.org/working/entry/6161/public_worker_union_leaer_ill_lucy_steps_down_speaks_out/

McEntee was only elected by 3000 votes. Maybe he needs to retire before 2012

Gutierrez makes a good call.

Emanuel is pathetic, just another corporate shill.

Gutierrez is a decent guy with some progressive credibility. He did sell out on the PO but i cant even remeber who didnt. they all did basically

Big Labor’s been making their announcements from the veal pen for quite a while now. Gutierrez is absolutely right to call McEntee out on it, but it’s also a predictable consultant-driven move for him. It’s time for the rank-and-file to step up and let their leadership know that union money won’t be spent supporting openly anti-labor candidates. McEntee needs to feel the heat from his own base.

slam Rahm, damn!

With the place Chicago has in labor history (Haymarket and subsequent rigged trial and state murder of defendants) organized labor should make sure that Rahm dies a miserable metaphoric death at the polls if he runs.

Do we know yet whether Rahm can legally run?

Brutal. Wonderful.

It seems like there are more progressives speaking the truth recently. Perhaps the spell has been broken. Or the pen is breaking

What is happening to popcorn futures. Have they already gone thru the roof, or is there still time to stock up?

Should be fun. All the dead people are just waiting to vote as usual in Chicago.

Do they poll the dead? Who’s ahead with the dead? How’re they doing in the horse race?

Good for Gutierrez.

Don’t forget that McEntee was a big supporter of Howard Dean until he screamed in Iowa.

McEntee probably believes (should now be believed) that Rahm was a slam dunk. His endorsement was to protect his members. Slimey, but that’s how most public sector unions work.

Maybe we could ask the guy on the left (Dia de Los Muertos in Oaxaca)? Not so sure about that one on the right, though.

McEntee is a living, breathing advertisement for term limits for union leaders.

Eli is upstairs!
Why Does The Humane Society Hate Puppies?

Fuck McEntee. A sell out to the U.S. working class. If the union members had any sense that would kick this piece of s_ _ _ out on his ass and get someone that will represent workers, not plutocrats.

Yeah, Rahm has been spotted making the rounds of Chicago cemeteries.

The unions purged the socialists and communists, their best organizers, in the 40′s and 50′s and McEntee is the consequence. Talk about paying your dues.

Jab, jab, jab and then land the sucker punch.

It’s what I have been saying for months now….McEntee is a first rate jackass, he & Trumka has misled union membership,he needs to go & he should take Trumka with him.

apparently Rahm may be ineligible to be on the ballot. that’s OK, he really only wanted to be chief of staff for the new mayor.

Rahm thinks he’s just going to waltz into the mayor’s office, but there are several others in the race (which the national media doesn’t seem to know about). The national media is acting like Rahm is going to get coronated as mayor. I think McEntree has been watching too much cable news lately, and figured that Rahm’s coronation was “inevitable”.

Uh, no. A union leader endorsing a man who went around saying “f*** the UAW” is no friend of organised labor. Rahm is also the point man for ramming NAFTA through Congress.

There was no more dynamic and driven labor leader in the United States in the ’70s than Gerald McEntee when he was the executive director of AFSCME in Pennsylvania. He saved then International President Jerry Wurf’s AFSCME in the late sixties when he convinced Wurf to gamble virtually the entire International’s treasury on McEntee’s assurances that Pennsylvania’s 90,000 Public Employees could be organized. That bet paid off. AFSCME would have gone to the scrapheap of dead and forgotten unions had McEntee failed in Pennsylvania.

Yet few among us doesn’t shed the passion of youth with elevation and too many years. Too many elderly labor leaders look down from their podiums at all the fresh young faces and think how insatiable and ungrateful these strangers are. Why do their eyes glaze over when the stories of old labor wars are told and, instead, demand what have you done for me lately?

What these labor leaders fail to do is ask themselves what have I done lately to put everything on the line to preserve what exists and make life even better for this next crop of young workers? Have I forgotten my own roots deep in the cause? Does the fire for justice still scorch my insides? Do I prefer the company of the powerful than breaking bread with my members? Do I prefer to sit with my paid staff than join the chat at the tables of the workers I represent? Am I representing those workers well or has the old fire to do so gone cold?

I will always hold affection for the young spirit of Gerald McEntee. Old McEntee used to be him.

McEntee supported Hillary at the beginning. And he was always tight with Bill. Shows how much McEntee has strayed from his roots.

I agree with Gutierriz, Rahm is no friend of labor. But, then I don’t want whiny Luis for mayor either. So no points for the call here Gutzy.