Check the Big Banks
From the AFL-CIO
Over the past several weeks, Republican leadership in Congress and the Trump administration have weakened our financial security by loosening rules that protect our economy from Wall Street bankers, opening the door for banks to discriminate and making it easier for Wall Street bankers to gamble with the savings of hardworking families.
America’s working families know that holding big banks accountable is essential to winning new economic rules that put Main Street first.
The right financial regulatory system will put Wall Street to work for working people, not the other way around.
The AFL-CIO is building a powerful and independent political movement to win commonsense financial rules that will keep big banks in check.
Break up big banks. Too few banks control too much of America’s financial system, which is risky because if they fail, they will bring down all of us.
Uphold the power of worker capital. Instead of making it harder for union members’ pension plans to have a say on corporate behavior, we should empower them to hold corporations accountable.
End racial discrimination. We want to make sure lenders don’t prey on people of color, the elderly or the poor by imposing unjustifiable fees, higher rates and other extra costs.
Democrats and Republicans alike are on notice. It’s time for new economic rules, so working families and our communities can thrive.
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