Buffenbarger

AP Photo/Evan Vucci Thomas Buffenbarger , president of the International Association of Machinists union, said he planned to focus more of his union's political spending on states—not the presidency.

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Thomas Buffenbarger, president of the International Association of Machinists, credited Mr. McEntee with building the AFL-CIO's political machine into a force.

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The current Machinist president, Tom Buffenbarger--who comes from a GE plant where the UE was ousted--never met a missile system he didn't like.

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"If we lose in these states, then they'll be coming after us for more in the private sector as well," said Thomas Buffenbarger, president of the machinists union, who has questioned whether public-sector unions appreciated the sacrifices private- sector unions like his have made.

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"We've got a very effective program whether you agree with all points or not," Mr. Buffenbarger said.

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"While such talk may appear to some as good politics, the reality is that it hurts one of the leading manufacturing and exporting industries in the United States," said a letter sent jointly to the White House on Wednesday by Peter Bunce, president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, and Thomas Buffenbarger, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

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Citing direct experience with then-Senator Obama in labor disputes, Buffenbarger termed the future President "a poet, not a fighter," who would have no stomach for the Republican attack machine.

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Citing direct experience with then-Senator Obama in labor disputes, Buffenbarger termed the future President "a poet, not a fighter," who would have no stomach for the Republican attack machine.

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Citing direct experience with then-Senator Obama in labor disputes, Buffenbarger termed the future President "a poet, not a fighter," who would have no stomach for the Republican attack machine.

Mark Olmsted: How the President Can Be a Poet and a Fighter Mark Olmsted 2010

Citing direct experience with then-Senator Obama in labor disputes, Buffenbarger termed the future President "a poet, not a fighter," who would have no stomach for the Republican attack machine.

Mark Olmsted: How the President Can Be a Poet and a Fighter Mark Olmsted 2010