AFL-CIO says lawmakers should remove ‘pro-China’ provisions from chips bill


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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A researcher plants a semiconductor on an interface board during a research work to design and develop a semiconductor product at Tsinghua Unigroup research center in Beijing, China, February 29, 2016. REUTERS / Kim Kyung-Hoon By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The largest U.S. labor organization said on Monday it wants lawmakers negotiating a measure to boost funding for semiconductor chips production and U.S. competitiveness to remove “pro-China provisions.” The AFL-CIO trade federation, representing 12.5 million workers, took aim at the Senate version of the bill in a letter to lawmakers, saying it “would benefit China’s...