This is why truth and history is so important. I found this 1974 newspaper piece which recites the entire text of a speech given my then-AFL-CIO President George Meany regarding the United Farm Workers of
America and its President Cesar Chavez.

If you understand United Farm Workers role and actual lawsuits against Shirely Sherrod's organization in the 1970s, it makes this even more interesting.

The unions have morphed and changed many times over since their inception to the unions we see today. They changed from their conception to the 1974 unions you can read about.

But notice what Meany says about immigration and the teamsters union (International Brotherhood of Teamsters). How very insightful and timely. Who are the teamsters associated with today? Hmm, the answer is one of Mr. Obama's favorite groups. The SEIU.

This isn't to say that the AFL-CIO is better or worse than either the SEIU or the IBT. It's just interesting to me. Talk about corruption and deceit and there is Shirley Sherrod's name right in the middle of a long history of government abuse and deception.


http://www.farmworkermovement.org/uf...28,%201974.pdf