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...I sat down with four of America’s top union leaders — Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO (the federation of US trade unions); Claude Cummings, president of the Communications Workers of America; Randi...
...The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations is the largest umbrella group in the US labour movement, with 60 affiliated unions representing more than 12mn members....
...to the Chicago Bulls, would finally open up the hermit kingdom....
...Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, blamed Chicago’s city authorities for failing to implement the necessary safety measures required to keep schools open....
...a labour union with more than 1.7m members....
...The two most high-profile union initiatives of late seem tailor-made to anger a whole lot of Americans: teachers unions in cities like Chicago refusing to reopen schools, and police unions in places like...
...union federation, at a public event on the state of the economy organised by the Federal Reserve last week....
...The Hedge Clippers, an anti-hedge fund group, and the American Federation of Teachers said that GM had handed $25bn back to shareholders in the past four years through share buybacks and dividends — more...
...African-American and Italian immigrant “scabs”, who had been moved in by the coal owners to replace the striking Appalachian miners, were invited to join the illegal United Mine Workers union....
...The American Federation of Teachers, a union with 1.7m members and influence on public sector pension funds, has pressured private equity funds to avoid the industry....
...The move was welcomed by Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, who called it a “major victory for working people that will improve the lives of millions of families”....
...Education Aim Improve teaching standards and curb power of the 1.4m-strong teachers’ federation, Latin America’s largest labour union....
...Chicago did not initially follow suit, which meant the weather became one of many political footballs in the long-running feud between Rahm Emanuel, the city’s mayor, and the Chicago Teachers Union....
...(AFL-CIO) has vowed to make it a campaign issue....
...Chicago Press....
...They also included Albert Shanker, the president of the New York City teachers’ union who – an hour before the city was to file for bankruptcy – agreed to his union’s purchase of MAC bonds, which kept the...
...It is my task,” he said, “to report the State of the Union – to improve it is the task of us all.”...
...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...
...American labour unions, such as the AFL-CIO labour federation and the American Federation of Teachers, announced their commitment on Tuesday to investing $10bn over the next five years in energy-efficient...
...He said that his group, a joint project of several community organisations and labour unions, including the United Federation of Teachers, the New York State AFL-CIO and the Communications Workers of America...
...Last month, the billionaire mayor dipped into his own pocket to buy campaign-style television ads in response to $3m in radio and television spots from the United Federation of Teachers and AFL-CIO criticising...
...Soon, there will be new cars on the streets of Seoul imported from Detroit, and Toledo, and Chicago. I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products....
...The retired teachers, though, now find they are on the wrong side of the vessel, struggling to wrench free a lifeboat as the ship keels....
...In the US, corporate leaders earned 319 times more than the average worker in 2008 (although this was down from 525 times in 2000), the AFL-CIO trade union federation said....
...You understand the importance of this. The fact is, the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO don’t agree on a whole lot. Tom Donohue and Richard Trumka aren’t exactly Facebook friends....
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