Trump attacks severely Trumka

US President Donald Trump began the National Labour Day, which is celebrated every first Monday in September, attacking the head of the union umbrella organisation (AFL-CIO), Richard Trumka, who sharply criticised the president over the weekend.

Trump said today that Trumka “represented his poor television alignment this weekend. It's easy to see why unions are doing such a bad job. One Dem!”

The president's attack came after Trumka appeared in “Fox News Sunday” over the weekend, where he said efforts to review the North American Free Trade Agreement should include Canada. Trumka, whose organisation is an umbrella group for most unions, said the economies of the United States, Canada and Mexico are integrated “and it's very difficult to see how this would work without having Canada in the” deal.

Trump said on Saturday there was no political imperative “to keep Canada at NAFTA. But as American media write, it is questionable whether Trump can unilaterally exclude Canada from an agreement to replace the three-nation NAFTA agreement without Congress approval.

The administration's negotiations on Trump to keep Canada in the reintegration trade bloc will resume this week, as Washington and Otawa are trying to break the trade blockade. /Kosovo pres/