Posted on 01/23/2017 1:37:12 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka praised GOP President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Trans Pacific Partnership once and for all on Monday with an executive order officially killing the Pacific Rim trade deal.
Trumka also praised the decision by President Trump to reopen negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal from the 1990s, a deal that saw millions of U.S. jobs leave the country for Mexico and Canada—and the labor union leader praised President Trump’s harsh words for Big Pharma, the pharmaceutical industry, when Trump said of that industry that “they’re politically protected, but not anymore” in an interview with the Washington Post.
Trumka said in his Monday statement:
"Last year, a powerful coalition of labor, environmental, consumer, public health and allied groups came together to stop the TPP. Today’s announcement that the US is withdrawing from TPP and seeking a reopening of NAFTA is an important first step toward a trade policy that works for working people. While these are necessary actions, they aren’t enough. They are just the first in a series of necessary policy changes required to build a fair and just global economy. We will continue our relentless campaign to create new trade and economic rules that end special privileges for foreign investors and Big Pharma, protect our planet’s precious natural resources and ensure fair pay, safe conditions and a voice in the workplace for all workers. . .”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Truck=Trumka
We’ve turned into nationalists. Unions agree with that for the most part, ones that actually represent their rank and file membership at least. There’s a lot with which we’ll disagree, too. They’re largely marxist, the leadership is anyway. We’re not. Their rank and file membership is not. Going to be interesting to see this unfold.
You mean the AFL/CIO that told it’s members not to vote for Trump?
What a bunch of idiots.
Trump may be what the nation needs now, but as I posted several times innthe primaries, he is not what one normally describes as conservative.
Teamsters loved it also..
Spot on!!!! Trumpka is in it for Trumpka.
When last seen, Trumka was on his knees....***-kissing Hillary and Obama.
NOW he’s praising Trump?
He must be dizzy from all that whirly-gigging.
Depends on how many of the states are right to work. There are more and more going right to work.
You are either friend or foe. Come on big labor figure out which side you want to be on of if you will never again take sides.
Have been to and lived in Hell Norway. Yes, there is such a place and the icicles on the sign are about late November. January and February are all the way to the ground.
There’s also the Hel Peninsula in Poland.
“What in the world is happening?”
I think Trump is putting together a party from the two parties. What is left will be the new Dem Party ie the Saturday protestors!
According to Dems, the greatest threats to the planet and humans are perverts not being able to use opposite sex bathrooms and cow farts causing hurricanes.
What a bunch of idiot drama queens! They are perfectly ripe for being squashed!
I remember yelling “Hillary for TPP” to some pro-Hillary union guys at a Trump rally in Toledo. I thought maybe I saw the light washing over them.
They’ll support Trump. After 8 years, if we’re lucky, if not, affer 4 years, it will be back to the Dem-Rep globalists screwing over the working class for their Corporate masters.
OUTSTANDING!!!
I doubt they’d get it.
We’re not talking the world’s brightest people out there.
Reagan years all over again!
True Conservatives want to conserve the USA's industrial base and the core of its economy. Free Traders want to de industrialize the USA and create some new world order. Not Conservative at all.
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