According to the AFL-CIO, since January, government agencies under the Donald Trump administration have taken steps to hide information from the public—information that was previously posted and information that the public has a right to know. But a recent move is especially personal. Early this month, the agency responsible for enforcing workplace safety and health—the […]
The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote this week on a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and end Medicaid as we know it. This mean-spirited bill, sponsored by Republican Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, would radically change our health care system, leading to unaffordable […]
Finally, after nearly a quarter of a century, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is being renegotiated. And while NAFTA negotiations have not progressed very far, and it is too early to say whether the effort will bring a New Economic Deal to working people or simply more crony capitalism, there was some fantastic, surprising, excellent news recently. The Canadian […]
Calling the boycott of Nabisco/Mondelēz products made in Mexico, “vital to saving good, middle-class American jobs,” BCTGM International President David Durkee urged U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) to call on Nabisco/Mondelēz to support American workers and bring jobs back to the U.S. Durkee, together with BCTGM International […]
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement on the announcement that the Trump administration will terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program: President Donald Trump’s move to terminate DACA and strip work authorization away from 800,000 productive members of our society is cruel and wrong. Ending DACA will increase the pool of vulnerable […]
