Union President Just Resigned From Trump’s Manufacturing Board
Another one quits over Trump’s failure to denounce white supremacists.
After Trump failed to condemn white supremacist violence following the neo-Nazi violence in Charolloteville this weekend, several members of the White House Manufacturing Council announced their resignations. Another major member of Donald Trump’s manufacturing council has announced they are resigning.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and AFL-CIO deputy chief of staff Thea Lee announced in a statement Tuesday that he is resigning the Trump board.
“President Trump’s remarks today repudiate his forced remarks yesterday about the KKK and neo-Nazis,” Trumka said.
“We must resign on behalf of America’s working people, who reject all notions of legitimacy of these bigoted groups.”
The announcement for union leaders Tuesday came on the heels of announcements from Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing who also stepped down in the past two days.
Here is the full statement from Trumka:
We cannot sit on a council for a President who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism. President Trump’s remarks today repudiate his forced remarks yesterday about the KKK and neo-Nazis. We must resign on behalf of America’s working people, who reject all notions of legitimacy of these bigoted groups.
It’s clear that President Trump’s Manufacturing Council was never an effective means for delivering real policy that lifts working families and his remarks today were the last straw. We joined this council with the intent to be a voice for working people and real hope that it would result in positive economic policy, but it has become yet another broken promise on the President’s record. From hollow councils to bad policy and embracing bigotry, the actions of this administration have are consistently failed working people.
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