Labor union executives, representing millions of American union workers, are blasting potential plans by President Joe Biden that would cut United States tariffs on China that were initially imposed by former President Trump.
Inflation is not being driven by United States tariffs on steel, aluminum, and other foreign imports, the United Steelworkers urge lawmakers.
American union workers are warning against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) coronavirus relief package over worries that it will gut employees’ pension plans.
Union bosses, closely tied to the Democrat Party, say American union workers sticking with President Trump in 2020 and his economic nationalist agenda is “a serious problem” for them.
Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign fundraiser will be co-hosted by a top union busting attorney, undercutting the leading Democrat candidate’s message that he is in favor of American workers while incumbent GOP President Donald Trump is not.
The top U.S. steelmaker is set to build a new state-of-the-art steel plate mill in the American Midwest with an investment of about $1.3 billion into the project thanks to President Trump’s 25 percent tariff on imported steel.
President Trump’s tariffs on imported steel and aluminum have led to higher wages for nearly 2,000 United Steelworkers (USW) in Michigan and Minnesota.
The Trump administration’s new trade pact with Mexico and Canada is much better than previous trade agreements in the area of workers rights, the United Steelworkers union leader said in a statement Monday.
President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum are a vital “part of national security” designed to counter China’s dumping of cheap, subsidized steel into the United States – which is “an attack on American jobs,” a representative with the United Steelworkers labor union says.
