<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="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">U.S.-China Trade Deal Fails to Address Workers’ Rights and Cheating</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the trade deal with China signed yesterday:</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in; line-height: 16.866666793823242px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">There is precious little in this deal that addresses China’s long-standing denial of basic labor rights. The deal also fails to address the worst aspects of China’s cheating—massive subsidies to its domestic companies and the predatory practices of its state-owned enterprises, which have cost millions of U.S. jobs and gutted our manufacturing base. And it lacks a mechanism for the United States to address the persistent currency misalignment between the dollar and the renminbi.<span style="color: rgb(60, 64, 67);" class=""> </span>Finally, it is another giveaway to Wall Street and Big Pharma and prioritizes new protections for companies that move to China, creating even more incentives for outsourcing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in; line-height: 16.866666793823242px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">It seems some progress has been made, but </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">the devil is in the details—and it’s important to remember that China has made and failed to honor similar commitments in the past. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> </span></p><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.866666793823242px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">###</span></div><div class="">
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