Labor leaders said Senate Republicans’ $1.3 trillion stimulus package to aid businesses reeling from the coronavirus pandemic would face heavy opposition from unions because there’s no guarantee money would flow to workers.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, head of the country’s largest federation of labor unions, called the proposal “an utter disgrace.”
“It gives free money to corporations, ignores the health crisis and does nothing to keep people working or help the unemployed,” Trumka said on Twitter Thursday evening, before congressional negotiators began hashing out the Senate majority’s proposal on Friday. “The labor movement will oppose this Main St bailout of ...