AFL-CIO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL STATEMENT ON TRADE Without Fixes, We Must Oppose the New NAFTA September 2019 When the new NAFTA was signed, the AFL-CIO warned that we would oppose the agreement without major changes. As we said in our March 2019 Executive Council statement, the labor movement will mobilize to defeat the new NAFTA if […]

This shutdown is now on day 25 (as of January 16, 2019) – the longest in U.S. history  Here’s latest information and developments about the shutdown. The Shutdown Rundown… In case you missed it: Over two thousand union members, federal employees and every day Americans rallied and marched on the White House in Washington, D.C. […]

Entire article here:  https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/10/politics/shutdown-effects-list/index.html Federal workers are more concentrated in some states Employees of federal departments affected by the shutdown per 100,000 workers

Deciphering the Commerce Department’s April 2018 Release of Trade Balance Data  Statement of Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Note: U.S. trade data for the first four months of 2018 will be released by the U.S. Census Bureau Wednesday morning. Continuing its previous trend, the U.S.-China trade deficit is predicted to increase […]

America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before Donald Trump have we had a president who combined all these nefarious qualities. America’s great good fortune was to begin with the opposite – a superb moral leader. […]

WFTU Commentary on the recent statements of the U.S. President D. Trump The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) which represents more than 92 million workers in every corner of the world, expresses its unequivocal condemnation of President Trump’s declarations of hatred who, during a discussion with lawmakers at the White House, complained about immigrants […]