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...Unions are paying close attention to the discrepancy between CEO pay gains and worker wage increases. The AFL-CIO, a US federation of unions, traces these in Executive Paywatch, its annual report....
...Because a lot of people don’t have the resources to be able to cover that gap for very long,” said Pat “Duke” Dujakovich, president of the greater Kansas City chapter of the AFL-CIO, the largest US trade...
...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
...Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO trade union federation, told The Washington Post this month that it would be a “colossal mistake” for the deal to be voted on before Thanksgiving, arguing it...
...It’s true that Pelosi secured some meaningful changes, and it was bordering on the incredible to watch Richard Trumka, leader of the AFL-CIO trade union, praise a trade agreement after spending his entire...
...Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO, the largest labour federation in the US, on Wednesday said he was unable to say whether the negotiations were moving in a direction that would benefit US workers because...
...He won a third term in a president election last month with 98.7 per cent of the vote....
...By that, he means the shadow state comprising the presidency, the ruling party, the security forces and the CIO — precisely the people looting the diamonds....
...Why give him carte blanche to fashion trade deals to the taste of the AFL-CIO and other union interests? Republicans will pass a law to implement the Keystone XL pipeline....
...For weeks, Samuel Lathem, a Baptist preacher who for more than a decade has been president of Delaware’s chapter of the AFL-CIO, the US’s largest trade union, has been fretting about job losses connected...
...Nonetheless the CIO believes there are advantages to being removed from the hustle and bustle of Europe’s bigger financial centres, despite the country’s regulatory stance....
...FGIC has the backing of the AFSCME and AFL-CIO unions and of Syncora, the bond insurer....
...Sharon Levine, a lawyer representing the AFSCME and AFL-CIO unions, said her clients viewed “the process as extremely one sided and heavy handed against the retirees”....
...(AFL-CIO) has vowed to make it a campaign issue....
...The AFL-CIO, America’s biggest trade union group, had urged Washington to take a tougher stance towards Bahrain on labour rights, particularly given the bilateral trade pact, which took effect in 2006....
...The AFL-CIO labour union, urged Tribune in May not to sell to the Koch brothers, saying they had promoted “an ideological agenda” and could affect the newspapers’ reputation for independent journalism....
...Celeste Drake, trade and globalisation specialist at the Afl-Cio, the largest US trade union group....
...All we want is to give this country a new chance and a new chapter. FT: So does that mean amnesty? MT: I don’t know....
...The AFL-CIO labour federation, which runs the largest organisational turnout programme, said its “Final Four” push to counter the Republicans’ 72-hour effort was its biggest election effort....
...President Clinton did not really do this well: he believed in Nafta and in the Uruguay Round; but he never really sat down with John Sweeney of AFL-CIO and other sceptics to confront their fears; hence he...
...study into four propositions, broadly following the four chapters of the study....
...Cooper Bagnall (PA): The supplier might say: we have a sub-arrangement over there and actually we didn’t to the credit checks on the sub and they went under....
...But he has the support of the TUC, the DGB in Germany, the AFL-CIO in the US, Cosatu in South Africa and many more....
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