<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">For Immediate Release </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">June 10, 2015<b class=""> Contact: </b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Carolyn Bobb, 202-637-5018<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Baltimore Steelworker Invites Pres. Obama to Witness Results of Past Failed Trade Policies<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">AFL-CIO, USW Launches New Trade Ad<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXAUhfW5FE" style="color: purple;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">See Mike’s Message to President Obama Here</span></b></a><b class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></i></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">(Washington, DC)</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> – A </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXAUhfW5FE" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">new ad</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> from the AFL-CIO and USW highlights how the loss of manufacturing jobs due to bad trade policy over the past 30 years has hit African-American populations especially hard in cities like Baltimore. The video makes clear that the battle over Fast Track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not about politics: it’s about people like former steelworker Mike Lewis.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“One can’t help but be saddened. This was once called the ‘Beast of the East.’ We made the steel that went into the Golden Gate Bridge…” Lewis says in a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXAUhfW5FE" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">video message</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> to President Obama, while standing on the decimated site where he proudly worked for 32 years as a full-time crane operator. The dream of economic opportunities disappeared in August of 2012 when Mike and 2,100 of his steelworker brothers and sisters who permanently lost their jobs at the steel plant in Sparrows Point in Baltimore.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The union hall where workers came together for so many years in good times has been a food bank that many rely on to feed their families. The closing of the steel plant and other manufacturing plants started the economic downfall that many in the African-American community have not recovered from.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">“We want the American people to know that bad trade policies have terrible consequences for workers. This battle isn’t about a political party, it’s about the thousands of people just like Mike Lewis who simply want a fair chance to earn a good living and put food on their table,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Mike has a simple message for the President: “President Obama, we welcome you to come to the site of what failed trade policies have brought, the devastation of this facility. Please come, please take a look at the devastation of three decades of failed trade policies.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The ad will begin as an initial web buy with key targeted audiences and escalate based on the timing of the Fast Track trade fight.<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXAUhfW5FE" style="color: purple;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">See Mike’s Message to President Obama Here</span></b></a><b class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">###</span></p></body></html>