Grijalva on labor relations, union issues

by David Safier

Adam Sarvana, Raúl M. Grijalva's Communications Director, forwards this quote from Grijalva's comments on C-SPAN this morning:

“This union-bashing and this anti-union fervor, almost a frenzy, that’s going on right now, it’s a blame game. Let’s blame the unions for our economic woes. Let’s blame the immigrants for our economic woes. What that blame game does is gets us diverted into fighting among ourselves when we have common issues that we need to deal with. [. . .] The job creators that Mitt Romney and the Republican presidential candidates like to talk about were also the job shrinkers. They took jobs overseas. They got tax breaks, unbelievably. Individuals at the top one percent got richer in the last ten years, and suddenly, when we find ourselves where we want to create a balance and create jobs for people who have been hurting and are unemployed or underpaid, all of a sudden they become the bad guys.”

You can watch Grijalva on C-SPAN here.