AFL-CIO Mission Statement-American Heros

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As a guy who managed large public sector construction for about twenty years before coming to DC, I was pretty agnostic about the labor unions and their role in construction (other than their silly work rules often left me shaking my head).

However, once I got here and negotiated with the big-wigs at various union headquarters downtown on behalf of 3 different Federal agencies and served with them on several national consensus standards committees, I lost a lot of respect for them. At the highest levels, the unions are pretty heavy-handed and corrupt (like much else in Washington, BTW). Some are better than others (Operating Engineers and Electrical Workers seem pretty squared away, while the Building Trades and OCAW (oil, chemical, atomic workers) were a rough, malicious bunch.)