According to Cryptopolitan, five major U.S. labor unions, including AFL-CIO, urged senators to oppose the CLARITY Act on May 13 ahead of the Senate Banking Committee’s Thursday vote. The unions, representing tens of millions of workers, warned that the bill would expose workers’ retirement savings and public pension funds to cryptocurrency volatility risks, adding that embedding digital assets into the real economy would create instability.
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