Southern
Region
USA
TODAY
By
Richard Trumka, president, AFL-CIO
January
24, 2017
On
Monday, the United States withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
President Trump may have signed the TPP’s death certificate, but it was working
people and our progressive allies who killed this unfair agreement. For years,
we have mobilized and organized in opposition to the TPP, winning the debate in
Congress and on the campaign trail.
WASHINGTON
POST
By
Danielle Paquette
January
23, 2017
Amid
tension with the organized labor community, President Trump met with a dozen
union leaders and members Monday afternoon at the White House for a “listening
session” about American jobs.
Federal
Times
By
Carten Cordell
January
23, 2017
Many
anticipated that President Trump would keep to his campaign promise of
instituting a hiring freeze for the federal government.
The
Hill
By
Richard Trumka, president, AFL-CIO
January
24, 2017
Much
has been made of President Trump’s sweeping comments and random tweets. But now
that he’s been officially sworn in, the consequences for American workers are
much more tangible.
Los
Angeles Times
By
Richard Trumka, president, AFL-CIO
January
24, 2017
“We
appreciate that Donald Trump laid it in its grave,” said Thea Lee, deputy
chief of staff at the AFL-CIO, referring to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
“But that’s only a first and small step.”
While
there are signs of more aggressive trade actions on the part of Trump, Lee said
it wasn’t clear how Trump’s approach — one of his popular refrains is “buy
American” — would manifest itself in actual trade policies.
“The
incoming administration has a narrower vision of America first,” she said. “It
could be negotiated and be worse for working people.”
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Texas
Houston
Chronicle
By
L.M. Sixel
January
20, 2017
"It
is completely unfair," said Rick Levy, secretary of the Texas AFL-CIO.
Over
the past few years, NFL players and their union have tried to fend off efforts
by the league to reduce workers' compensation benefits. In California in 2013,
the National Football League led a successful lobbying effort to bar
professional athletes from filing workers' compensation claims in California if
they spent most of their careers outside the state.
DeLane Adams
AFL-CIO Field Communications
Southern Region
Cell: 404-402-9764
Twitter:
@delane392
