Trump to discuss NAFTA with union leaders

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By IAN KULLGREN 08/21/2018 02:23 PM EDT

President Donald Trump will meet with union leaders at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the status of NAFTA negotiations, the White House said.

Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will meet with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Teamsters President James Hoffa Jr., United Automobile Workers President Gary Jones, International Association of Machinists President Robert Martinez, and United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard. They’ll be joined by several top White House officials, including chief of staff John Kelly and trade adviser Peter Navarro, deputy White House press secretary Lindsay Walters said.

The U.S. and Mexico have struggled in recent weeks to nail down labor provisions in NAFTA. Negotiators are still figuring out how to make the agreement’s new labor rules enforceable in way that will overcome the Trump administration’s aversion to being bound to trade rules. Unions in both countries argue that wage suppression south of the border is largely the result of workers being threatened or stymied when they try to organize.

Trumka and other labor leaders have praised Trump’s approach on trade, even as they routinely spar with his administration on other issues such as worker safety and union rights for federal workers. Last month, Trumka praised Trump’s threat to hike tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods from 10 percent to 25 percent. The UAW and AFL-CIO have reportedly expressed support for moving forward with tariffs on cars, trucks and automotive parts as well.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/trump-to-discuss-nafta-with-union-leaders-745703

[C Moon]

1. That will be interesting.

[atreides1]

2. Of course the Unions support the tariffs

The price for a product goes up and the Union will be negotiating for higher wages for their members...meanwhile the rest of us will be SOL because we'll have to pay those higher prices!!!


Good to know that the Unions are as money grubbing as the corporations!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. They'll support tariffs until they start losing more jobs than they already are.

Free-er trade has created union jobs.

It's a bit bizarre, their stance, because union jobs in the US assembling cars depend on union jobs in Canada making parts which depend on union jobs in the US producing steel. And vice versa.

[maxrandb]

3. How a union could sit down with these pricks

is beyond me.

How are these "union" leaders elected, and when is someone going to run to replace them.

These fucktwits have overseen the absolute desolation of Unions in this country.

They are no more worthy of being Union reps than Scott Walker.

Trumka, the Koch brothers favorite Union leader.

[olddad56]

5. he had better hurry, before he is living in exile in Russia.

That might be Putin's plan at some point in time. He will reward Trump for doing a good job, and bring him 'home' to Moscow. I bet Melania can't wait to be reassigned.