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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....
...union federation, at a public event on the state of the economy organised by the Federal Reserve last week....
...union the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, and the Kentucky Democratic Party....
...The plaintiff, Mark Janus, is an Illinois child services worker who refuses to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees....
...Microsoft, Prudential Financial, American Express and Accenture stand out in that respect, according to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest trade union of public...
...Four unions that had opposed the plan — AFSCME Council 31, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois Nurses Association and Teamsters Local 700 — welcomed the ruling....
...The AFL-CIO, the US trade union federation, says that while the chief executive-to-worker average pay ratio is higher in the US than anywhere else in the developed world, countries such as Canada, Germany...
...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”....
...The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has appealed the ruling, and the judge is scheduled to hear arguments on the challenge today....
...The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees – which had opposed the city’s eligibility – immediately appealed the ruling, and is likely to be joined by others, which could delay negotiations...
...American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the union pension fund, which has lobbied for the chairman and chief executive roles to be split....
...Activist investor groups such as the American Federation of State and County Municipal Employees have led the calls for change to the board membership and structure but even institutional investors have...
...Henry Bayer, executive director of the Illinois chapter of The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), said the failed bills floated by the state’s governor and a bipartisan...
...It came after 15 months of negotiations with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees....
...Back in Milwaukee, Rich Abelson, an executive director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, says union rights will not be the main issue in the general election, but rather...
...Meanwhile, AFL-CIO, the labour federation, has started a super-Pac, Workers’ Voices, which raised $3.7m in the last six months of last year....
...Tim Burga, president of the AFL-CIO federation of trade unions in Ohio, says blue-collar voters in the state will see through Mr Romney’s rhetoric given his opposition to the Obama administration’s bailout...
...The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees had been pressing the bank to separate the dual role of chairman and chief executive – a position held by Lloyd Blankfein....
...The organisation’s super-Pac also received $500,000 from each of the following unions: the American Federation of Teachers; Unite Here Tip State and Local Fund; and the American Federation of State, County...
...Even so, at 377,000, it stands at little more than half the level of 2001. “These are certainly challenging times,” says Thea Lee, deputy chief of staff at the AFL-CIO labour federation....
...Two big trade union pension funds, belonging to the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, called for a protest vote from Dell’s shareholders at the annual meeting...
...Some were scathing: “With this report the deficit commission once again tells working Americans to drop dead,” said Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO union....
...While labour groups such as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (Afscme) often submit shareholder proposals to companies deemed to have weak corporate governance policies, the...
...The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest public service employees union in the US, plans to write to Citi’s board on Thursday, reiterating its call for the resignation...
...We believe the vote is a repudiation of their tenure on Citi’s board,” said Richard Ferlauto, director of pension and benefit policy at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, one...
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