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The hypocrisy of Trump’s ‘Made in America Week’
Union leaders were enraged. Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers Union, called Trump a “phony” who has “never done anything for anybody but himself.” The AFL-CIO published a report decrying Trump as a “sellout” whose “decisions are all about higher profits for himself and his family at the expense of American producers and their employees.”
While Trump has promised steel workers in Rust Belt states that he will restore lost jobs to their economically battered communities, he has built at least two hotels with steel and aluminum from China — the persistent bogeyman of Trump’s campaign speeches in which he decried the decline of American manufacturing. When faced with the evidence of his Chinese steel purchases, though, Trump just plowed ahead, continuing the charade that he is an unemployed steel worker’s best friend.
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/07/...the-hypocrisy-of-trumps-made-in-america-week/
This cross-section of America includes more than a million former truck drivers, office and factory employees, bricklayers and construction workers who are threatened with cutbacks that could last the rest of their lives.
The Central States Pension Fund was the first to actually be approved for this triage under a 2014 law known as the Multiemployer Pension Fund Reform Act. Many pension advocates call it unfair.
Another blow for heartland workers: Slashed pensions
Government Employees Pension Slashed
Does a Border Patrol agent struggling to put his kids through college deserve to have his pension slashed so a Fortune 500 CEO can buy a second yacht? Does a VA nurse deserve to put her retirement plans on hold for another five years so a venture capitalist can tack another month onto his trip to Monte Carlo?
Trump’s budget trades workers’ retirement security for CEO tax cuts