AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (UMWA) hosted a series of town hall meetings in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan this week, where he talked with working people about NAFTA and what working families need from a new deal.
Here are highlights of the trade tour from Twitter:
We’re here in #Pittsburgh ready to kickoff the @AFLCIO #TradeTour with @RichardTrumka at @PFT400! Join us online: https://t.co/4Byps36I4Y pic.twitter.com/ev0rN28r4n
— PA AFL-CIO (@PaAFL_CIO) June 17, 2019
Are you watching the Pittsburgh #NAFTA #TradeTour Town Hall tonight? Here’s a message from President @RichardTrumka #1u
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 17, 2019
📺: https://t.co/5Ow5EJF7oD pic.twitter.com/imKFH6wrWO
38,000 jobs have been lost in this area due to bad trade! @Darrinkellypgh @AFLCIO @RichardTrumka @PFT400 #Pittsburgh #TradeTour pic.twitter.com/2eiMjbVfSH
— PA AFL-CIO (@PaAFL_CIO) June 17, 2019
If a trade deal is good for our workers, we will support it. If it is give aways for the rich we will oppose it. - Nina Esposito-Visgitis #tradetour #nafta #1u pic.twitter.com/7an3ggJriu
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 17, 2019
.@steelworkers VP Fred Redmond, “CEOs and Corporations are rigging the economic playing field and exploiting workers across borders.” @AFLCIO @RichardTrumka #TradeTour pic.twitter.com/RjP4eR1gsK
— PA AFL-CIO (@PaAFL_CIO) June 17, 2019
“Right now, this agreement does not work for workers! Bad trade deals devastate communities and our economy.” President @Rwbloomingdale @AFLCIO @RichardTrumka #TradeTour pic.twitter.com/WZUsn3zwt6
— PA AFL-CIO (@PaAFL_CIO) June 17, 2019
AFL-CIO NAFTA #TradeTour stop in Pittsburgh where President @RichardTrumka says tell Congress NO VOTE ON THE NEW NAFTA until working people are prioritized in the agreement. @steelworkers @AFLCIO @PaAFL_CIO pic.twitter.com/AYoD7AzvQv
— Tamara Lefcowitz (@TLefcowitz) June 17, 2019
The proposed new #NAFTA will include even more giveaways to Big Pharma a d other corporate special interests. #tradetour #1u pic.twitter.com/vY16HCsm5d
— Richard Trumka (@RichardTrumka) June 17, 2019
NAFTA has stymied the economic growth of workers in Mexico. Latino workers have suffered under this bad trade deal. @AFLCIOLatino @AFLCIO @RichardTrumka @LCLAA #TradeTour pic.twitter.com/JYXNY2yIa0
— PA AFL-CIO (@PaAFL_CIO) June 17, 2019
Here’s what you missed tonight in Pittsburgh. #NAFTA #TradeTour #1u pic.twitter.com/NsIE6SJrCQ
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 18, 2019
Goodbye Pittsburgh 👋🏼
— Richard Trumka (@RichardTrumka) June 18, 2019
Onward to the next leg of the #NAFTA #TradeTour in Ohio, see you later today? #1u pic.twitter.com/s2Cyb9ESLS
Morning, Ohio! President @RichardTrumka is kicking off day two of the @AFLCIO’s #TradeTour with a worker roundtable in Youngstown. #1u pic.twitter.com/nPsWElbLFD
— John Weber (@jmatthewweber) June 18, 2019
We’ve known that #NAFTA was detrimental to communities across the country and we know that the new NAFTA will be too.
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 18, 2019
🔊Take a second and hear how detrimental it will be. #tradetour #1u pic.twitter.com/UEQlgXDSFQ
Harriet Applegate, Executive Secretary of North Shore AFL-CIO kicking off our second stop on the #NAFTA #TradeTour #1u pic.twitter.com/P0uu3Lut0A
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 18, 2019
Tim Burga, @ohioaflcio President “we remember the debate 25 years ago and saw a trade deal based on hope. Now we take no joy in talking about the devastation that #NAFTA caused.” #TradeTour pic.twitter.com/qdym33Vpkb
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 18, 2019
.@RichardTrumka speaking in Cleveland for the last stop of #TradeTour Day 2:
— John Weber (@jmatthewweber) June 18, 2019
“Let’s be clear about something. NAFTA isn’t broken. It’s working exactly the way it was meant to. It was written to enrich corporations at the expense of working people.” #1u pic.twitter.com/ftizz4Keog
It’s not just about the number of jobs we lost. It’s about those people, our sisters and brothers and our communities who were devastated. Lives changed for the worst. Families who may have never recovered. #NAFTA #TradeTour pic.twitter.com/MLAjbABiNO
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 18, 2019
Q: what does effective enforcement look like?
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 18, 2019
A:
1. Mexico has to be able to enforce their own laws.
2. Agreement has to be able to be enforced
3. Being able to stop the product from coming into the country at the border until violations rectified. #NAFTA #tradetour pic.twitter.com/A4yIrafeWb
We need to pass the #PROact and here’s what it does. #NAFTA #tradetour pic.twitter.com/OpG7VREe85
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 18, 2019
We just wrapped up in Cleveland. We were reminded tonight that this #NAFTA #TradeTour is about the impact on our people. We must continue to fight for our people, we can't afford another bad deal. #1u
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 19, 2019
📺Watch the recap: pic.twitter.com/vW8qXdeg4o
At Northwest Ohio Building Trades in Toledo, @RichardTrumka convenes #TradeTour roundtable and calls on Congress to not vote on NAFTA agreement until it’s fixed to protect American workers. pic.twitter.com/FlGPDH3oxC
— Ohio AFL-CIO (@ohioaflcio) June 19, 2019
We’ve got to hold our elected officials accountable and call them on their BS. #NAFTA #TradeTour #1u pic.twitter.com/DjNHD11GnN
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 19, 2019
Daryl Newman, @MetDetAFLCIO President welcoming everyone to the #NAFTA #TradeTour town hall. #1u pic.twitter.com/JGvJuVFGzM
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 19, 2019
.@uawregion1a Director Chuck Browning thanks everyone for attending tonight’s #NAFTA #tradetour Town Hall pic.twitter.com/EeYzIBZ5AA
— AFL-CIO (@AFLCIO) June 19, 2019
President @RichardTrumka rounds out the @AFLCIO’s #TradeTour at @UAWRegion1A in Detroit. #1u pic.twitter.com/aXeKndrtV9
— John Weber (@jmatthewweber) June 19, 2019