{"id":20149,"date":"2015-06-18T12:48:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/?p=20149"},"modified":"2020-08-24T19:10:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:10:52","slug":"president-perrone-todays-fast-track-vote-displays-desperation","status":"publish","type":"press_releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/press-releases\/president-perrone-todays-fast-track-vote-displays-desperation\/","title":{"rendered":"President Perrone: Today\u2019s Fast Track Vote Displays Desperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20150\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/via-stopfasttrack.com_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20150\" class=\" wp-image-20150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/via-stopfasttrack.com_.jpg\" alt=\"image via stopfasttrack.com\" width=\"275\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image via stopfasttrack.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong> \u2014 Today, Marc Perrone, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the largest private sector union in the nation, released the following statement in response to the U.S. House passing stand-alone fast track trade legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today\u2019s vote in the U.S. House displays the desperate levels that supporters of this terrible trade deal will stoop to, and a complete disregard for America&#8217;s workers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of addressing the massive failures of past trade agreements, the House and the President have doubled down on a disastrous strategy that will cost jobs, lower wages and worsen already record levels of income inequality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake, every member of the House, both Republicans and Democrats, who sent Fast Track to the Senate today will be remembered for turning their backs on America&#8217;s working families when it mattered most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing forward, we will shift our focus to the Senate where multiple Senators have already expressed doubt about this latest and most frantic attempt to pass Fast Track. We will make clear to every Senator that the best place to stand is against Fast Track and with the hard-working men and women of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\">United Food and Commercial Workers International Union<\/a> (UFCW) online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\">www.ufcw.org<\/a><u><br \/>\n<\/u><br \/>\nWe are 1.3 million families standing together to build an economy that every hard-working family deserves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UFCWinternational\">www.facebook.com\/UFCWinternational<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/UFCW\">@UFCW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 Today, Marc Perrone, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the largest private sector union in the nation, released the following statement in response to the U.S. House passing stand-alone fast track trade legislation. &#8220;Today\u2019s vote in the U.S. House displays the desperate levels that supporters of this terrible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":204,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20149","press_releases","type-press_releases","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President Perrone: Today\u2019s Fast Track Vote Displays Desperation - The United Food &amp; 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