The Real McCain Record (7/21/08)

With the November 2008 Presidential election cycle underway, Republican nominee has made it clear that, if he's elected, union members can count on having a new enemy in the White House.

"John McCain's record on the problems that matter to workers and their families is essentially a carbon copy of George Bush's and Dick Cheney's," said RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum.

Appelbaum points out that McCain isn't only a bitter opponent of the important Employee Free Choice Act, the Arizona conservative also backs allowing employers to fire striking workers and denying the right to organize to police and firefighters.

"John McCain was even happy to cross a Writers Guild picket line," Appelbaum adds.

Over his years in public life, McCain has taken special delight in bashing teachers' unions. On one occasion he declared "it's time to break the grip of the education monopoly that serves the union bosses at the expense of our children." Not surprisingly, McCain has also been a strong supporter of "right-to-work" laws that have long weakened unions throughout the South.

"The bottom line is that John McCain is no less an enemy of the labor movement than George Bush and Dick Cheney," Appelbaum said, pledging that the RWDSU "will do whatever it takes to make sure that our members and their families get the facts about the real John McCain."