On Labor Day, Trump hits back at largest union leader

By Michelle Price

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at campaign fundraising luncheon for Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) and GOP congressional candidate Mark Harris at Carmel Country Club in Charlotte, NC, U.S., August 31, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Labor Day hit back at Richard Trumka, president of the United States' largest federation of labour unions, after Trumka said on Sunday that the president's policies had hurt American workers.

 

Trumka, who is head of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), said on Fox News of Trump's policies: "Unfortunately, to date, the things that he's done to hurt workers outpace what he's done to help workers."

 

The AFL-CIO president cited changes to the tax code that encourage companies to outsource jobs, the administration's failure to produce an infrastructure program and its overturning of regulations, including some protecting health and safety.

 

On Monday, the national Labor Day holiday, Trump tweeted that Trumka had represented his union "poorly."

 

"Some of the things he said were so against the working men and women of our country, and the success of the U.S. itself, that it is easy to see why unions are doing so poorly," Trump added.

 

In follow-up tweets, the president hailed economic growth, adding: "The Worker in America is doing better than ever before!"

A spokesman for Trumka, John Weber, declined to comment on Trump's tweets.

 

Trumka had also questioned Trump's Saturday tweet that there was no need to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The president warned Congress not to meddle with the trade negotiations or he would terminate the trilateral trade pact altogether.

 

"It's pretty hard to see how that would work without having Canada in the deal," Trumka said on Sunday, noting that the economies of Mexico, the United States and Canada were heavily integrated.

 

Trumka, who met with Trump alongside other labour leaders last month to talk about trade issues, is a highly influential figure on trade issues and his support will likely be necessary for the passage of any legislation on trade promoted by the administration.

Democrats are working to get union members to vote in the Nov. 6 midterm congressional elections.

 

Former Vice President Joe Biden marched in a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh, campaigning on behalf of Democrats. "We're in a fight for the soul of America," he said. "It's about time we restore dignity to work."

 

(Reporting by Michelle Price; Additional reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Andrea Ricci and Dan Grebler)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-09-04

Sooo who are you going to believe a flackery generalcontractor(trump)or the   pres. Of the AFLCIO well it ant trump he hates unions

committing political suicide day after day must get a bit tiring. 

6 hours ago, webfact said:

"The Worker in America is doing better than ever before!"

Just not almost 2 million federal employees who were expecting a negotiated across-the-board 2.1% pay increase slated to take effect in January.

Trump described the pay increase as "inappropriate." The Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/30/politics/trump-cancels-federal-employee-pay-raises/index.html

After all, it won't be the wealthiest 1-10% who got 80% of the trillion dollar tax cut that will be paying for those pay raises.

 

6 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

committing political suicide day after day must get a bit tiring. 

Not when you may be totally ignorant of what is happening outside your own ego 

Thought that US unemployment was at its lowest...???

14 minutes ago, wirat69 said:

Thought that US unemployment was at its lowest...???

Are you a ‘production and nonsupervisory’ worker? Your wages are falling

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/15/are-you-a-production-and-nonsupervisory-worker-your-wages-are-falling/

 

Growth Has Lifted Counties That Voted for Trump. Mostly, It’s the Wealthy Ones.

President Trump’s economy has left the most distressed swaths of the country waiting for their share of the good times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/us/trump-economy-missouri-illinois.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=US

Yeah,  but they got clean coal now 

15 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

committing political suicide day after day must get a bit tiring. 

 

It's called "winning" and boy, am I tired of it!