Donald
Trump, even as a candidate talked about how much he cares for the
blue collar American worker in the manufacturing sectors in “Rust
Belt” states, but AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says president
Donald Trump has “actively hurt” U.S. Workers. Trump “joined
with corporations and their political allies to undermine the right
of workers to bargain collectively and made our workplaces less safe.
Trump wants to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure, but would include
only $200 billion in federal funds – with the rest coming from
states, cities and private-public “partnerships.” Critics fear
that most of the private-public money would wind up in Wall Street’s
pockets, rather than fixing the nation’s roads, bridges, railroads,
airports and Internet infrastructure. Tax
credits would go to private developers and investors, who will line
their pockets by issuing bonds for toll roads through rich
communities, while refusing to fund new water pipes in poor
neighborhoods. Let's look at a run down of the SOTU speech:
TRUMP:
Created 200,000 manufacturing jobs.
FACTS:
93,000 manufacturing jobs have been outsourced.
TRUMP:
New tax plan ($1.5T tax cut).
FACTS:
The law will make it tax-free for employers to create overseas
subsidiaries.
TRUMP:
I did away with more regulation than any other president.
FACTS:
Trump eliminated regulations that protected workers health and
safety.
Companies lose 150 workers daily lost to occupational injuries and
disease. Trump proposes a budget to slash safety research dollars
that eliminate safety and health training for workers. Employers are
not “required” to record injuries anymore (or that the
occurrences/incidents are not reported as such). Delays standards to
protect worker health and safety like silica or mine safety
inspections.
TRUMP:
Rising wages for American workers.
FACTS:
Actually
Trump's plan lowered wages by taking away OT or the way employers
calculate it for about 5 million workers.
TRUMP:
$200B for infrastructure projects ($20B for 10 years).
FACTS:
The Society
of Civil Engineers
say that over 3 trillion dollars are needed to repair our old
infrastructure and create a new system well into the next century.
Robert
Randle
776
Commerce St Apt 701
Tacoma,
WA 98402
February
1, 2018
robertrandle51@yahoo.com
