By The PA. AFL-CIO

– Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Rick Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Frank Snyder both join with millions of working families across the United States and here in Pennsylvania in celebrating the abrupt departure of the union-busting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker from the Republican Presidential race.

“Fortunately for our nation and for millions of working families, Scott Walker will not be pushing his anti-working family economic agenda from the Oval Office. His sudden and abrupt drop in popularity happened as he decided to double down on attacking workers and their unions, calling for the elimination of the National Labor Relations Board and further tilting the playing field to billionaires. People want to hear about growing the economy and creating good paying jobs. This anti-worker, anti-union agenda wasn’t good for Wisconsin, isn’t good for Pennsylvania, and wouldn’t do anything for Americans except drive down wages,” Bloomingdale said.

“He couldn’t run away from his own divisive politics of attacking good jobs and waging war on the working people of Wisconsin. Here is a politician that displayed the audacity to compare his union-busting crusade in Wisconsin to fighting terrorists on a national stage. His brief foray into national politics and his humiliating departure should serve as a lesson to politicians of both parties that working people want good jobs and good wages not someone who blames them – a lesson that politicians in Pennsylvania, who share this misguided agenda, better be aware of,” Snyder said.

Source – http://www.paaflcio.org/?p=6394