Ex-NYT labor reporter: Trump has 'not made America great again' for workers
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has “not made America great again for American workers,” a former longtime New York Times labor reporter told an audience here on Monday.
Steven Greenhouse, who covered the labor movement for the Times for almost two decades, recently released a book titled, “Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.”
One of his objectives, he said, was to “sound the alarm about a hugely important phenomenon that far too few Americans understand or are paying attention to — and that is that worker power in the United States has fallen to a dismal low,” Greenhouse said Monday at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
Worker power in the United States is at its weakest point since the 1930s, Greenhouse said. “As a result, lots of things are badly out of whack, making millions of Americans feel that the system is deeply rigged.”
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I. AM. SHOCKED. 
