Tag: Richard Trumka

Head of main US labor union leaves Trump panel over Charlottesville response

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The president of the main United States labor union resigned from Donald Trump’s council on manufacturing Tuesday, saying the US president’s response to violent white supremacists in Charlottesville meant he tolerated “bigotry and domestic terrorism.” “We cannot sit on a council for a President who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement announcing his immediate resignation from the panel. “President Trump’s remarks today repudiate […]