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...United Auto Workers, the 391,000 member union that represents workers at General Motors, Stellantis and Ford, elected a new president in March who has also pledged to be tougher on employers....
...“No other public service has an obligation like it,” said Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union....
...Star-studded performances were woven in-between clips showcasing ordinary Americans, such as postal service workers....
...In the June primaries, which served as a dry run, 14,600 of them arrived after the deadline and the US postal service struggled....
...This puts American manufacturers and workers at a significant competitive disadvantage and forces the US Postal Service to subsidise a system that weakens America’s manufacturing base....
...Royal Mail results come amid an ongoing dispute with its postal workers and the Communication Workers Union, who are arguing for more pay and better working hours, among a whole range of other issues....
...I want manufacturing to be back in the United States so that American workers can benefit.”...
...Insofar as Americans have a popular image of postal workers, it has become increasingly squalid....
...Rare stamps sold London auctioneers Sotheby’s sells duplicate stamps from the British Postal Museum and Archive, with 191 lots including King George V “seahorse” issues, estimated to make a total of more...
...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....
...In a blunt message to members, Cliff Guffey, president of the American Postal Workers Union, said “crushing postal workers and slashing service will not solve the Postal Service’s financial crisis....
...The in-house publication of one of the United Auto Workers (UAW) locals in Cleveland is The Enlightener....
...Clients include Visa, Pfizer, Verizon Wireless and the American Postal Workers Union....
...Within the United States, workers in metropolitan areas with big cities earn 30 percent more than workers who aren’t in metropolitan areas....
...And may God bless the United States of America....
...“A keen and comprehensive appreciation of risk is at the centre of everything we do” is how Mr Blankfein, the Bronx-born son of a postal worker who made his way to the top from Goldman’s cut-throat trading...
...The AFL-CIO points to a poll that shows 73 per cent of Americans are in favour of card check but other polls are less stark or turn the other way....
...In April this year Mr Obama told the AFL-CIO (the main umbrella body for US unions) that he was “tired of playing defence” on workers’ rights. “We’re ready to play offence for a decent wage....
...And it is unsustainable for the United States of America....
...They are in an abyss out there,” said Patrick Eiding, president of the Philadelphia council of the AFL-CIO, a federation of unions....
..., students, marching together under the aegis of the union federation AFL-CIO, in a peaceful and sometimes witty demonstration....
...The body landed away from the road, near a postal service office. Postmen helped emergency workers clear up the mess so the day’s business could carry on....
...We have kept the line of full respect for community law and we will keep it… Widening the single market It means defending and widening the single market: financial services, health services, postal services...
...The other unions that will boycott the Chicago convention are the Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers and Unite Here....
...So far, the differences between the AFL-CIO's leadership, led by the president John Sweeney, and rebel leaders, led by Andy Stern, head of the SEIU service sector union, have centred on strategic differences...
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