Acting Labor Secretary Seth D. Harris addressed the Annual Legislative Conference of the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) on Monday. As part of a scathing attack on attempts to reform public employee labor unions, Harris told a joke that he said was “making the rounds a few years ago”:
A unionized public employee, a small-government conservative, and a CEO are sitting around a table with a plate that has a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the conservative and says: “Watch out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie.”
Ironically, of course, since the IAFF is a public employee labor union, there are no CEOs. Rather, the firefighters work for the taxpayers, hardly the greedy CEOs caricatured in Harris’s joke.
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