{"id":280169,"date":"2025-11-08T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/280169\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:57:10","slug":"us-unions-slam-trump-for-giving-china-a-pass-on-shipbuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/280169\/","title":{"rendered":"US unions slam Trump for giving China a pass on shipbuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A group of labour unions led by the United Steelworkers slammed the Trump administration for suspending port fees on Chinese ships that workers argued would bring about a revival in the once-dominant domestic shipbuilding industry.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The unions expressed \u201cstrong disappointment\u201d with the administration\u2019s decision and said it would have negative consequences in the nation\u2019s attempt to restore the US maritime sector, according to a letter sent to US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The letter, also signed by the International Association of Machinists, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, said the decision will allow China to continue \u201cpredatory behaviour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The strong comments come a week after US President Donald Trump touted a trade truce between the world\u2019s largest economies, assuring Americans that the Chinese would buy more agricultural goods and roll back export controls on rare-earth minerals that threatened to undermine US national security.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But the pushback also shows that the deal came at the expense of some blue-collar workers, which could hurt the president during next year\u2019s midterm elections in key battlegrounds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A member of the United Steelworkers union wears a sticker on his helmet depicting US President Donald Trump as an American football player during an event at the White House in April. Photo: TNS\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bcf82a2b-3cdf-4e44-a450-98ca7604ac42_595de0ff.jpg\" title=\"A member of the United Steelworkers union wears a sticker on his helmet depicting US President Donald Trump as an American football player during an event at the White House in April. Photo: TNS\"\/>A member of the United Steelworkers union wears a sticker on his helmet depicting US President Donald Trump as an American football player during an event at the White House in April. Photo: TNS<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cBy suspending 301 remedies for one year, the US government is introducing uncertainty at the very moment when confidence and long-term planning are most essential,\u201d the unions wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of labour unions led by the United Steelworkers slammed the Trump administration for suspending port fees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,72427,144,8192,12,148362,148359,148358,34381,3,148360,720,21,19,148361,22,20,25,102851,24],"class_list":["post-280169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-biden-administration","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-donald-trump","tag-international-association-of-machinists","tag-international-brotherhood-of-boilermakers","tag-international-brotherhood-of-electrical-workers","tag-jamieson-greer","tag-news","tag-section-301","tag-senate","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-united-steelworkers","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-trade-representative","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}