Headline Roundup • September 2nd, 2019
President Trump And AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Trade Barbs
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President Donald Trump Monday launched a Labor Day Twitter attack against AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka after the powerful labor leader Sunday said the nation's unions won't have "any choice" but to block the "unenforceable" United States-Mexico-Canada trading deal.
"Just watched AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on @FoxNews and thought to myself how different he is on TV than he is when he is with me at the White House," the president tweeted. "Likes what we are doing until the cameras go on. We got robbed on Trade and everything else while...
The president of the AFL-CIO union federation told Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Sunday that the Trump administration has “done more things to hurt workers” than to help them.
Richard Trumka, head of the group that includes 55 different unions, said wages are being swamped by rising health care and housing costs, and that President Donald Trump is botching his trade war with China.
Trump has also opposed every effort to increase the minimum wage and has stripped safety standards that used to protect workers, Trumka said.
“I’ve tried to...
President Trump on Monday lashed out at AFL-CIO President Richard Trumaka a day after the labor union leader criticized Trump's trade deal in a Fox News interview.
Trump, in a Labor Day morning tweet, claimed that Trumka doesn't share the same critique of Trump's trade deal when "he is with me at the White House."
"Just watched AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on @FoxNews and thought to myself how different he is on TV than he is when he is with me at the White House. Likes what we are doing...
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