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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...
...Under Abruzzo, a career NLRB attorney who has also worked for the Communications Workers of America union, the agency has taken a union-friendly approach....
...“You can have the fanciest technology but in the end we need to make sure workers feel their companies respect their right to a collective voice,” says Feingold of the AFL-CIO....
...Brandon Rees, deputy director of corporations and capital markets at the AFL-CIO trade union federation, said labour activists “wanted to put the record straight” after press reports and rumours around Capitol...
...I’ll never forget an interview I did years ago with the late Richard Trumka, the then-president of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labour union....
...Person in the news Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest union group, has said he will bring a labour dispute against Mexico under the US’s USMCA trade agreement once Joe Biden takes...
...Tim Schlittner, communications director of the AFL-CIO, said the federation believed “all workers, including police officers, have the right to organise and bargain collectively....
...Tim Burga, head of the Ohio branch of the AFL-CIO, the biggest US union organisation, said the state had been losing jobs for years, opening the door to Mr Trump in 2016....
...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
...Of those, 18 were based in just six “right to work” states in the Deep South, according to a new study from the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labour union....
...Ashtead, a £6bn company, is down by a fifth with no news on the tape other than Bank of America repeating “buy” advice....
...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...
...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...
...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”....
...“This is an agreement that is going to hurt the American workers and their families,” Rosa Delauro, one of the TPP’s leading opponents in Congress told a rally convened by the AFL-CIO this week....
...Businesses throughout the “low-wage economy” would now feel extra pressure to raise pay, said Damon Silvers, the policy director for the AFL-CIO, America’s union umbrella organisation....
...Despite the limited reach of the suspension, Richard Trumka, the AFL-CIO president, said the decision “sends an important message to our trading partners, that countries that benefit from preferential trade...
...(AFL-CIO) has vowed to make it a campaign issue....
...Last month Gannett, the owner of USA Today and the country’s largest chain of local newspapers, spent $1.5bn to acquire Belo Corp’s 20 local TV stations....
...Bangladesh is struggling to avert a threatened withdrawal of US trade privileges – under the generalised system of preferences (GSP) – following a campaign by the AFL-CIO, the US trade union federation....
...The meeting will follow on the heels of one with progressive groups such as the NAACP and the National Council of la Raza, as well as the SEIU and AFL-CIO labour unions....
...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...
...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....
...The AFL-CIO union federation argues the so-called “card check” law is needed and accuses some companies of pressing staff not to support foundation of a union....
...“We have the president on our side,” says Richard Trumka, secretary treasurer of the AFL-CIO union coalition....
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