Tag: President Donald Trump
OPINION: How Trump got trickled down
He pretended to be different. He was lying.
By PAUL KRUGMAN
One thing many people forget about the 2016 election is that as a candidate, Donald...
Trump’s budget ‘another broadside attack’ on postal workers
In addition to major cuts to Medicaid and other social safety net programs, President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 takes aim at...
The Trump Budget: The other shoe drops
When Congress passed a $2 trillion tax cut for corporations and the wealthy in 2017, the AFL-CIO warned that the obscene cost of the...
The REAL state of the union for working people
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
President Trump’s State of the Union speech spent a lot of time focusing on jobs and the economy, putting a predictably positive...
The state of the union for working people
In preparation for President Trump’s State of the Union speech, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) assembled research from the last year that examines the...
Trumka, top Dem. Neal skeptical of Trump’s China trade deal
Washington (PAI) — If President Donald Trump thinks he’s going to easily push through his China trade deal on Capitol Hill this year, he’s...
OPINION: How Trump betrayed workers and allowed jobs to become disaster...
By TOM CONWAY
International President, United Steelworkers
Within two months of starting work at an Amazon warehouse in Eastvale, Calif., Candice Dixon ruined her back.
Dixon had...
OPINION: 10 things Trump has done to hurt workers
With one year left in Trump’s term, here are 10 things that prove he is no friend of unions
By KRIS LAGRANGE
Since President Donald Trump...
OPINION: Most dangerous 13 months ahead
‘Potentially the most dangerous months in world affairs since 1939’
(PUBLISHER’S NOTE: The reality of 2020 is a world awash in turmoil and real dangers....