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...Richard Trumka, the leader of the AFL-CIO labour union federation, who has previously criticised the pact and whose support could be pivotal among Democrats, was briefing members of his organisation’s executive...
...Darrin Kelly, president of the Allegheny County Labor Council, a local branch of the AFL-CIO labour federation, says: “I think over generations there has been a loss of message between certain Democrats...
...Last week, Sharon Levine, a lawyer representing the AFSCME and AFL-CIO unions, told the FT her clients viewed the process as “extremely one-sided and heavy handed against the retirees”....
...John Olsen, president of the AFL-CIO union federation in Connecticut for the past 23 years, puts the blame for wage stagnation squarely on decades of attacks on unions....
...They are in an abyss out there,” said Patrick Eiding, president of the Philadelphia council of the AFL-CIO, a federation of unions....
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