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In the Huffington Post, United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard writes that "[e]ver worsening is the chasm between the lo

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AFT's Weingarten: School Vouchers 'Polite Cousins of Segregation'

admin on Today, July 20 - 10:36am

In a blistering speech slated to be delivered to more than 1,400 teachers on Thursday, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten likens U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to a climate-change denier, saying DeVos refuses to acknowledge "the good in our public schools and their foundational place in our democracy."

Read the full article in the USA Today.

Reuters: Labor Unions, Democrats Pressure Trump Ahead of NAFTA Priorities Statement

admin on Monday, July 17 - 3:07am

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said the North American Free Trade Agreement had been an "unequivocal failure" and should be completely renegotiated. "We will do everything we can to make this a good agreement and to hold the president at this word and make sure we get a renegotiation," he told a conference call with reporters. "If it comes out that it is not a good deal, no deal is better than a bad deal," said Trumka.

Read the full articles in Reuters.

The Hill: Labor Board Is Set for Power Shift Under Trump

admin on Thursday, July 13 - 5:22pm

“The decisions and actions of the NLRB have real consequences for working people,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said on Wednesday. “A fair and functioning NLRB can protect the freedom of working people to negotiate a fair return on our work so we can provide for our families. A partisan, ideologically driven NLRB can further empower corporations and CEOs to take away our freedoms at work.”

Read the full article in The Hill.

Bloomberg BNA: Trump Team Unlikely to Fight for NAFTA Worker Safety Rewrite

admin on Monday, July 10 - 6:53am

“NAFTA is a disaster,” Celeste Drake, a trade and globalization policy specialist at AFL-CIO, told Bloomberg BNA. “We don’t think it needs to be tinkered with. We think it needs to be wholly rewritten. It’s not about taking a red pen and moving a comma here and a sentence there. Whole chapters need to be cut out and whole new chapters need to be rewritten.”

Read the full article in Bloomberg BNA.

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