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The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding President Trump’s anticipated remarks later today about “taking care of seniors.” “We are on the eve of the May 1 start of Older Americans Month and seniors are more at risk for their health and economic security than they have been in decades.“The CDC’s national shelter in place recommendations expire today, putting millions of seniors further at risk. We...

30 April, 2020

BY WILMA B. LIEBMAN February 19, 2020 Wilma B. Liebman served as a member of the National Labor Relations Board, appointed by Presidents Clinton and Bush, and named chairman by President Obama (1997-2011). In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump declared that “our agenda is relentlessly pro-worker.”  Relentless, yes. Pro-worker, no. Look no further than the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency where workers’ rights are being rolled back radically by the...

20 February, 2020

BCTGM International staff gathered outside the U.S. Capitol with Federal and DC government employees to protest the Trump administration's war on federal workers. AFGE, NFFE, NTEU, and IFPTE hosted the Day of Action to protest the Trump Administration’s efforts to undermine federal employee unions. "We're taking to the streets because we're fed up with baseless attacks on the American worker, fed up with retaliation against whistleblowers, fed up with bad-faith bargaining at the negotiating table, and...

24 September, 2019

BCTGM International President David Durkee wrote the following column for the July/August BCTGM NEWS. For those who have watched the Trump Administration chop away at workers’ rights, it was no big surprise when President Trump nominated Eugene Scalia for Secretary of Labor. Scalia — son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — has made his reputation in Washington, D.C. as a lawyer for big corporations with a blatant disregard and disdain for...

29 August, 2019

President Trump ran for office as a champion of American workers and a friend of labor unions, but his administration has systematically favored employers at the expense of workers. In recent months, the administration has moved to tighten qualifications for who must be paid the minimum wage and who must be paid overtime. It is asking the Supreme Court to rule that companies can fire workers on the basis of sexual orientation. The number of workplace...

04 June, 2019

On the 20th day of the shutdown of the Federal Government by President Trump and the Congressional Republicans, the BCTGM International officers and staff joined thousands of government workers and labor activists outside AFL-CIO headquarters to demand an end to the lockout of 800,000 civil servants. About a dozen union workers spoke during the rally held outside AFL-CIO headquarters. The workers were employed at numerous government agencies, including the Justice Department, the Federal Aviation Administration, the...

11 January, 2019

Today marks Day 17 of the government shutdown, now tied for the second-longest ever, and yet no votes to reopen the government are scheduled in the Senate. The AFL-CIO has called on all senators to reject consideration of any bills or business unrelated to opening the government. Every day that the government remains closed, more than 800,000 federal employees in all 50 states—from federal air marshals to Smithsonian cafeteria workers—go without pay. The House of Representatives passed...

07 January, 2019

Under the Trump administration, the number of federal workplace safety inspectors has sharply declined. Since President Donald Trump took office, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lost 40 inspectors through attrition and as of October 2, has not hired new inspectors to fill the vacancies, according to data obtained by NBC News. According the the findings of NBC, the departing inspectors made up 4 percent of the OSHA's total federal inspection force, which fell below 1,000...

10 January, 2018

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 workers in our country and embolden employers to retaliate against working men and women who dare to organize on the job...

06 September, 2017

Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on his and Thea Lee’s resignation from President Trump’s council on manufacturing: We cannot sit on a council for a President who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism. President Trump’s remarks today repudiate his forced remarks yesterday about the KKK and neo-Nazis. We must resign on behalf of America’s working people, who reject all notions of legitimacy of these bigoted groups. It’s clear that President Trump’s Manufacturing Council was never an effective...

16 August, 2017

BCTGM International staff joined hundreds of American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and AFSCME members and Democratic members of Congress outside the U.S. Capitol to rally in opposition to Republicans’ Trumpcare bill and budget proposal which would strip funding from students, teachers, nurses and health workers. The rally was organized by the AFT and led by AFT President Randi Weingarten.  Congressional speakers denounced the proposed budget cuts, which would fall heavily on schools and other vital social services....

20 July, 2017

Approximately 87 percent of workers receive no paid family leave, a problem that BCTGM and other advocates for working families have been pushing elected officials to address for years. The issue finally emerged as a policy focus in last year’s presidential elections. In a July 10 letter to the president, more than 100 congressional Democrats urged President Donald Trump to support legislation providing working families with 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave “that is sustainable, affordable, and inclusive.” They...

18 July, 2017

As a candidate, President Donald Trump railed against the outsourcing of American jobs, using Carrier in Indianapolis as his prime example. The company has announced it will fire 632 workers by midsummer at the company’s Indianapolis factory and outsource the work to Mexico. The BCTGM joins with the AFL-CIO and the entire labor movement to demand that the president use renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement to level the playing field for American...

24 May, 2017

The withdrawal of Labor Secretary nominee Andrew Puzder is being hailed as a victory for America's workers. From coast to coast, workers made thousands of calls, attended mass rallies and demonstrations and met with their Senators to expose Puzder's record of driving down wages, harassment and worker intimidation. Puzder’s anti-worker views are no secret. He railed against a meaningful increase in the minimum wage, opposed expanding overtime pay and advocated replacing working people with machines. Of...

16 February, 2017

Yesterday, working people who have been employed by fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder shared their stories with Senate Democrats. They made it clear why Puzder is being called the #AntiLaborSecretary. Gathered by the AFL-CIO, here are some of the key tweets that captured the hearings. Meanwhile, read about Puzder's Record Defined by Fighting Against Working People ...

12 January, 2017