Wednesday at The Christian Science Monitor breakfast, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said he could not work with the Trump administration because the faction that agrees with union leaders on trade “turned out to be racist” while the others are “Wall Streeters.”
The leader of a major union is accusing Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, of betraying union members’ economic interests to please a major environmentalist donor.
The president of the nation’s largest teachers’ union says that as a result of Hillary Clinton’s victories on Super Tuesday, she is the candidate who can unite the nation and “stand up against the fear and hateful rhetoric” of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
At an address delivered at AFL-CIO headquarters, the archbishop of Washington, D.C. announced that organized labor is recognized by the Catholic Church as one of the “instruments of solidarity and justice,” and that such solidarity should not be taken for granted or denied.
Pelosi took to the House floor to reveal that she would be opposing a the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) bill to “slow down the fast-track,” or Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). The 126-302 vote against TAA, represented a striking defeat for Obama who had visited the Democratic caucus that morning to plea for support.
Should Hillary Clinton support the trade effort, Richard Trumka warns, working people would take notice.
Tuesday at a a hearing on U.S. trade policy and the fast-track trade authority bill, long-time ally of President Barack Obama, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka testified that the fast track process is “unaccountable and un-democratic,” especially in light of the
