Smaller Unions Complain Of White House Cold Shoulder

Samuel acknowledged the White House liaison’s office has been a problem for some.

“I know he rubbed some people the wrong way,” Samuel said of Tamarin, acknowledging that it was easier for a top official at the AFL-CIO to get his calls returned quickly during Obama’s first term than it was for, say, the president of one of the AFL’s smaller affiliates. And Samuel said that Tamarin didn’t do much hand-holding, an important part of a job where people are desperate to feel like they’re being heard.

“Nate is a very straight shooter. If he thought you were full of shit, he’d tell you,” Samuel said. “Or if you’re asking for something that was just impossible, which sometimes people do. They get angry at the White House when the president goes somewhere they don’t want him to go or says something they don’t want him to say. They’d call and complain and he’d tell you, you know, ‘chill.’”

When word went out in labor circles that BuzzFeed was writing a story about the White House liaison office, top officials from the nation’s largest unions reached out to heap praise on Tamarin, Twigg, the liaison office, and Obama.

“She did want me to pass along that she found Nate responsive, and honest, and her dealings with Carri have been the same,” Marcus Mrowka, spokesperson for American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, said in a typical email.

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