CNN: Democrats blast unions' pressure tactics on trade

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/03/politics/president-obama-democrats-unions-trade/index.html

By Deirdre Walsh and Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 10:27 PM ET, Wed June 3, 2015

Washington (CNN)The Democrats who support President Barack Obama's free-trade push are growing increasingly concerned about organized labor's hardball tactics.

The AFL-CIO and other leading labor unions have made defeating trade promotion authority -- which greases the wheels for Obama's massive Trans-Pacific Partnership by guaranteeing it an up-or-down vote with no amendments -- their top legislative priority.

"Labor is going a little overboard and I think there is some potential backlash for how far they are going," said Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond, a Democrat, on Wednesday.

The measure has already cleared the Senate, and it's expected to get a vote in the House in the coming weeks.

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