Later today AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka is going to speak at a rally at an anti-Meg Whitman rally at Los Angeles City Hall. The Hill reports he’ll slam Whitman and Carly Fiorina as being “clueless CEOs”:
“So in the elections for governor and senator, who do the Republicans throw at the problem? Two clueless CEOs: Meg Whitman, who was too shady even for the board of Goldman Sachs; and Carly Fiorina, who laid off 30,000 Hewlett-Packard employees, shipped jobs overseas, got fired – with a $20-plus million golden parachute – and was labeled one of the worst CEOs of all time,” Trumka will say….
“Queen Meg? She’s not what we need on the throne of the biggest state in the country,” he’ll say. “And how about Carly Fiorina – who calls offshoring jobs “right-shoring”? She actually said that.”
It’s good to see that Trumka is not only coming to California to rally the labor rank and file against these two CEO candidates, but that he’s also going to hit them both hard. Whitman and Fiorina are as bold examples as you can find of the wealthy elite’s desire to take control of our country and channel the remaining wealth upward to themselves and their cronies at the expense of the rest of us.
UPDATE: Friend of Calitics Jeremy D. Thompson took these excellent photos of the rally:
AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka
US Senator Barbara Boxer
The crowd wants to work. Senator Boxer is helping put them back to work. Carly Fiorina just wants to lay them off so she and her cronies can get even richer.
Glad the shots were useful to the gang here. I’d somehow missed that this event was even happening until I read it on Calitics.
The heads is up so appreciated. I couldn’t have spent my lunch break doing anything better.
I’ll tell you what, Barbara was on fire today! She laid out the case against Carly and her party-of-no cohorts in no uncertain terms.
Whether its Green Jobs or any jobs, Boxer is going to put Californians back to work. Carly is a serial outsourcer, who’s done enough damage to the working people of this state and nation.