Commentary

Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the Continued Fight to Raise Wages

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2014. 

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The Senate failed yesterday to increase the minimum wage.  The rest of America marches forward, raising wages every way possible, utterly confident that we have history, economics, morality, and plain common sense on our side.

Any political oligarch in America who thinks they won yesterday is delusional.  Those celebrating the Senate’s vote are desperately clinging to greed, fooling themselves with an argument that is rapidly losing merit and muscle tone.

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