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This is a cross-post from the House Ways and Means Committee Democrats:
Currency manipulation costs the United States hundreds of thousands of jobs, yet the Republicans fail to act.
In this cross post from the Solidarity Center website, Tim Ryan, the center’s director for Asia and Europe, gives a rare glimpse of the Belarus workers’ continuing struggles.
It’s been a bad decade for the workers of Belarus. This former Soviet republic gained independence in 1991 and, for a time, new unions independent of government or company control grew significantly. But under continuing political repression by President Alexander Lukashenko over the past 10 years, recently formed workers’ organizations face extinction in what is often called the last dictatorship of Europe.
The effort to take away the right of public employees in Ohio is “disrespectful and unfair” to America’s workers. Speaking on the floor of the House yesterday, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) said it is “ridiculous” to blame public employees for the “financial meltdown caused by Wall Street’s recklessness.”
Leveling the playing field by enforcing our trade laws against currency manipulation is a no-cost action that will create jobs, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said today.
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