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    Unions Are Wondering: Resist or Assist?

    Labor leaders are sizing up a president who could be a friend or, more likely, a foe.
    by Charlotte Garden Mar 15, 2017 5 minutes
    Source: Mike Segar / Reuters

    The first month of the Trump administration was mostly a discouraging one for labor unions. Since taking office, the president has frozen federal hiring (though he did pledge to hire 15,000 border patrol agents) and restated his support for a national “right to work” law that would disrupt unions’ funding mechanisms. He also sought the confirmation of Andy Puzder, a fast-food CEO who’s not fond of minimum-wage or overtime rules, to head the Department of Labor, only to see him withdraw amid public outcry.

    Still, some within the labor movement have cheered Trump’s use of the presidential bully pulpit to harangue employers who send jobs overseas, and voiced optimism about Trump’s stated desire to “buy American and hire American.”

    This has left many labor unions with a decision about how best to serve their members going forward: Should they try to get along with Trump, and ?

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