11/10/2016 – To APWU Members across the country,
The Presidential election is over and Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States. Throughout the primaries and general election there was a revolt against the “establishment” and politics as usual. People clearly wanted a change.
As a union whose members cover the entire political spectrum, we always believe that your vote is a personal decision. We commend all of those who got involved and engaged in the political process.
The recommendations of the Executive Board to support Senator Bernie Sanders in the primary and Secretary Hillary Clinton in the general election were based on which candidates were the most supportive of issues directly affecting postal workers.
We believe that the issues of defense and expansion of the public Postal Service is non-partisan.
We have many friends in Congress on both “sides of the aisle.” All elected officials, we hope, will support postal legislation to strengthen the Postal Service so it can continue to serve the people of the United States. I, and the other APWU officers, pledge to continue to work with all elected representatives, from all parties and political views, who will work with us to achieve our goals.
APWU members, regardless of our political views, will need to be fully united and mobilized to ensure the new White House and Congress will stand up for postal patrons, postal workers and the public Postal Service.
source: APWU
The support of this union for such an corrupt person almost made me leave it completely. I’m a union officer and I was 100% ashamed that any mention of supporting Killary even came up.
Non-AMERICAN, that what it meant to me…..I’ve always wondered about the APWU and now I know.
I don’t need the union to cover my rear, I do my job like I was taught. I belong to the union because Postal management is corrupt like Killary!
Once Comey the republican came back out as investigating her emails, I changed my position as well. Hillary did all this to herself, and the Russians were more than happy to assist.
This to me was nothing more than a protest vote by the american people. They weren’t happy with the current day to day politics and wanted a change. Trump gave them what they wanted, big time. He’s a true businessman. He con, lied and cheat his way to the white house.
If you do some real research you’ll see that she couldn’t muster up her own Democrats to vote for her.
2016: Trump 60,000,000 votes-Clinton 61,000,000 votes
2012: Romney 61,000,000 votes- Obama 69,000,000 votes
2008: McCain 60,000,000 votes- Obama 69,000,000 votes
Flawed candidate and we knew it and wouldn’t admit it! We like the Republicans were drinking the cool-aid.
I have come to realize in the first days after the election a few items, and because I was dealing with a death in our family, it may be a bit skewed due to brain and emotional overload, but here’s my theory:
The Democrats backed the wrong candidate from day one. Hillary Clinton proved herself to be a cold impersonal candidate. She was greedy and no doubt had help getting Sanders out of her way thanks to the connections she and Bill have. Personal ambition took precedence over the welfare of the country with both Trump and Clinton, and in the end regardless of how much one loves or hates him, Trump was much better at connecting with voters who weren’t all racist hate mongers, but are totally disgusted with Washington and the stranglehold the Capitol and its constantly reelected slime bags have over the political spectrum. Nobody who wanted to stop this insider’s game could have gained anything by electing HRC.
The media blew it big time. No time in history have pollsters, media shills and “experts” been so completely and thoroughly wrong about the election’s outcome, and they have been a whimpering pathetic disgrace all week trying to intellectualize a viable excuse for proving themselves worthless.
It isn’t working. What Washington and the media fail to understand, time and time again is that they are in bubbles of think tanks, useless data overkill and totally out of synch with the general population.
The Democrats, as Sanders pointed out, are anything but true progressives. They abandoned their historic bread and butter, the working class, unions and minorities in favor of being Republican lights, doing nothing to encourage more labor and union involvement, signing job killing legislation like NAFTA or the pending Pacific Pact Agreement which will make the overseas shipping of jobs to sweat shops even worse.
We need a return to real FDR style governing – before you GOP fans start screaming, remember FDR favored job creation, founded Social Security, wanted strong banks and industry, and organized labor with good living wages. His approach was so simple: pay people decent wages, the whole country, people and industry profit. Don’t let industry and finance get too greedy, have banks offer interest rates for investing that actually make a difference and lower the lending rates, and you would have a happy country. And he was in favor of a strong military. Had Democrats understood that, defeated Hillary in the primaries, and picked Sanders, it would have been a landslide for him. So when we want to point fingers, progressives, we need to start with ourselves.
More than a few Bernie Sanders supporters vote for President-elect Donald Trump. How else could Donald Trump have won in sectorMichigan and, even Pennsylvania? Yesterday morning Bernie Sanders admitted that some of his supporters, jumped to Donald Trump.
I was afraid that would happen with the negative rhetoric that was coming out of the Sanders camp. We are not sure if these people were real Democrats but the DNC didn’t help themselves when the leaks came out and tainted Clinton’s campaign. Let’s not forget FBI director Comey for putting an added spin in the election which did affect voters if you examine the exit polls.