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*******Trumka steps down from manufacturing initiative****** Is that six ? seven ?
Top labor leader resigns from Trump’s jobs council after Trump blames ‘both sides’ for Charlottesville violence
Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the largest group of labor unions in the country, quit President Trump’s manufacturing council Tuesday evening, with the labor leader saying he refused to accept any tolerance of “bigotry and domestic terrorism.”
“President Trump’s remarks today repudiate his forced remarks yesterday about the KKK and neo-Nazis,” Trumka said in a statement. “We must resign on behalf of America’s working people, who reject all notions of legitimacy of these bigoted groups.”
Trumka announced earlier this week that he was “assessing” his role on Trump’s bench of factory-job advisers after the president took two days to explicitly condemn a white supremacist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/15/afl-cio-president-richard-trumka-quits-trumps-jobs-council-after-president-says-both-sides-to-blame-for-charlottesville-violence/?utm_term=.f80e8226a6db
Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the largest group of labor unions in the country, quit President Trump’s manufacturing council Tuesday evening, with the labor leader saying he refused to accept any tolerance of “bigotry and domestic terrorism.”
“President Trump’s remarks today repudiate his forced remarks yesterday about the KKK and neo-Nazis,” Trumka said in a statement. “We must resign on behalf of America’s working people, who reject all notions of legitimacy of these bigoted groups.”
Trumka announced earlier this week that he was “assessing” his role on Trump’s bench of factory-job advisers after the president took two days to explicitly condemn a white supremacist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/15/afl-cio-president-richard-trumka-quits-trumps-jobs-council-after-president-says-both-sides-to-blame-for-charlottesville-violence/?utm_term=.f80e8226a6db
Is that six ? seven ?
I want this Council to be so small you can fit it in a bathroom.
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