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US TRADE unions will freeze their contributions to federal candidates “until further notice,” federation AFL-CIO warned politicians on Wednesday.
Its intention is to channel funds into the intensifying battle to stop or at least help shape a proposed free-trade agreement being negotiated by the US and other nations that border the Pacific Ocean.
The unions are battling legislation going through Congress to fast-track negotiations over the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership through the House and Senate.
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
