{"id":12314,"date":"2010-08-13T19:30:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-14T01:57:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T01:57:38","slug":"trumka-whitman-and-fiorina-are-clueless-ceos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/13\/trumka-whitman-and-fiorina-are-clueless-ceos\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumka: Whitman and Fiorina are &#8220;Clueless CEOs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/114079-afl-cio-chief-to-assail-whitman-and-fiorina-as-clueless-ceos\">The Hill reports<\/a> he&#8217;ll slam Whitman and Carly Fiorina as being &#8220;clueless CEOs&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;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 &#8211; with a $20-plus million golden parachute &#8211; and was labeled one of the worst CEOs of all time,&#8221; Trumka will say&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Queen Meg? She&#8217;s not what we need on the throne of the biggest state in the country,&#8221; he&#8217;ll say. &#8220;And how about Carly Fiorina &#8211; who calls offshoring jobs &#8220;right-shoring&#8221;? She actually said that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;s also going to hit them both hard. Whitman and Fiorina are as bold examples as you can find of the wealthy elite&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> Friend of Calitics Jeremy D. Thompson took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64804021@N00\/sets\/72157624594609401\/\">these excellent photos<\/a> of the rally:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64804021@N00\/4888908709\/\" title=\"IMG_5812 by Reelpolitik, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4122\/4888908709_fd06d2d002_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"IMG_5812\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64804021@N00\/4889514100\/\" title=\"IMG_5914 by Reelpolitik, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4099\/4889514100_0ec2eaebb6_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"IMG_5914\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>US Senator Barbara Boxer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64804021@N00\/4888919923\/\" title=\"IMG_5941 by Reelpolitik, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4101\/4888919923_42058ba670_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"IMG_5941\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/114079-afl-cio-chief-to-assail-whitman-and-fiorina-as-clueless-ceos\">The Hill reports<\/a> he&#8217;ll slam Whitman and Carly Fiorina as being &#8220;clueless CEOs&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;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 &#8211; with a $20-plus million golden parachute &#8211; and was labeled one of the worst CEOs of all time,&#8221; Trumka will say&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Queen Meg? She&#8217;s not what we need on the throne of the biggest state in the country,&#8221; he&#8217;ll say. &#8220;And how about Carly Fiorina &#8211; who calls offshoring jobs &#8220;right-shoring&#8221;? She actually said that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;s also going to hit them both hard. Whitman and Fiorina are as bold examples as you can find of the wealthy elite&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> Friend of Calitics Jeremy D. Thompson took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64804021@N00\/sets\/72157624594609401\/\">these excellent photos<\/a> of the rally:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64804021@N00\/4888908709\/\" title=\"IMG_5812 by Reelpolitik, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4122\/4888908709_fd06d2d002_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"IMG_5812\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64804021@N00\/4889514100\/\" title=\"IMG_5914 by Reelpolitik, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4099\/4889514100_0ec2eaebb6_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"IMG_5914\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>US Senator Barbara Boxer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64804021@N00\/4888919923\/\" title=\"IMG_5941 by Reelpolitik, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4101\/4888919923_42058ba670_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"IMG_5941\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3cC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}