AFL-CIO’s Trumka ‘ready to work with’ Trump

Published November 9, 2016 8:01pm ET



AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka offered a tentative olive branch to President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday, saying that the nation’s largest labor federation was willing to try to meet him part way on economic policy issues.

Trumka had been one of Trump’s harshest critics during the campaign, repeatedly calling him aracist” and mobilizing union support on behalf of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

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