National AFL-CIO To Gerald Brady: “Resign”.
No, not from the General Assembly. From his position as the Executive Director of the Delaware AFL-CIO:
Liz Shuler, national president of the AFL-CIO, said in a statement on Friday that she was “sickened” by Brady’s “despicable remarks,” and called for his immediate resignation from the union chapter.
The AFL-CIO is the largest federation of unions in the country. Brady has served as the Delaware AFL-CIO executive director since 2003, according to his LinkedIn profile. (Look up the term ‘useful idiot’ in the dictionary, and perhaps you’ll understand why.)
“The AFL-CIO and I are committed to ending discrimination and bigotry in all its forms,” Shuler said via Twitter. “Every single union member must come together to root out hate – from inappropriate language to acts of violence. America’s labor movement must use our position of trust to lead by example.”
Gee, I wonder if Delaware’s AFL-CIO President James Maravelias feels the same way about that commitment to end ‘discrimination and bigotry in all its forms’. For that matter, I wonder if he was the intended recipient of Brady’s racist and xenophobic tweets.
The leaders of the House are still playing rope-a-dope with this dope. You know, still ‘investigating’ the complaint and remaining unavailable for comment. Until right after redistricting.
Liz Shuler did the right thing. She joins a select few.
This is one I did not see coming. Big shout out to the activists on this one. Huge blow to Brady.
Didn’t maravelias share racist things on his Facebook?
He indeed got in trouble for racist and xenophobic postings. Anti-Asian sentiments at that:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/coronavirus-anti-asian-labor-james-maravelias-20200427.html
Inspirational quotes:
“Maravelias, who is also president of the Delaware Building Trades and an official at Laborers Local 199, deleted a meme he posted on March 30 that showed Adam and Eve as two Chinese people eating a snake — an image fueling anti-Chinese sentiment and referring to suggestions that Chinese culture is to blame for the coronavirus. “Here you go come on you know it’s funny,” he wrote, according to a screenshot.”
In another now-deleted post that appears to feature a video of people eating wild animals, he wrote: “Hey snowflakes…See no nationality to insult your feelings…BUT eating this [expletive] is why the virus COVID-19 has killed a couple of hundred thousand people so far.”
Which is why I wonder if Brady was sharing his innermost thoughts with his boss. In fact, I think that’s exactly who he intended to message.
Which raises the obvious question: Shouldn’t the National AFL-CIO strip this asshole of his presidency?
Man, this Maravelias is really a piece of work. From the same Inquirer article:
“Maravelias did not respond on Monday to a request for comment, but last week told Politico: “Approximately 15,000 residents of New Castle County have been infected and you are hassling me about a Facebook post — unemployment is over 30% in Delaware and my personal Facebook reposts are news? No wonder there is no real media presence…. This is politically motivated by a far-left-wing faction to drive a wedge with radical political theatrics.”
Politico’s Daniel Lippman noted that “Delaware’s official unemployment rate in March was actually 5.1%, although it’s certainly risen significantly since then, and there are fewer than 1,400 cases in New Castle County.”
This is what happens when the cops and the building & construction trades control organized labor.