LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UNION: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Labor Day hit back at Richard Trumka, president of the United States’ largest federation of labor unions, after Trumka said on Sunday [9-2-18] that the president’s policies had hurt American workers. Trumka, who is head of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), said on Fox News of Trump’s policies: ‘Unfortunately, to date, the things that he’s done to hurt workers outpace what he’s done to help workers.’ The AFL-CIO president cited changes to the tax code that encourage companies to outsource jobs, the administration’s failure to produce an infrastructure program and its overturning of regulations, including some protecting health and safety. On Monday [9-3-18], the national Labor Day holiday, Trump tweeted that Trumka had represented his union ‘poorly.'”
–Reuters Staff, “On Labor Day, Trump Hits Back at Largest Union Leader,” The New York Times online, September 3, 2018