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...The Tennessee Valley Authority project of the 1930s was successful in large part because of input from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which had developed in tandem with the new technology...
...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...
...“Those at the top of the supply chain have incredible power and resources,” argues worker rights advocate Cathy Feingold, director of the international department at AFL-CIO, the US’s largest trade union...
...Our person in the news is Richard Trumka, who heads up the AFL-CIO union....
...The Writers Guild of America, East, which has 7,000 members, this week called on the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union federation, to sever ties with the International Union of Police Associations, which...
...— tourism, remittances and portfolio inflows into local debt....
...James Hoffa, head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, last month said the USMCA was an improvement over Nafta and would stop the “haemorrhaging of jobs” to Mexico....
...Four hours’ drive further north is Matagalpa – coffee country, where fields of workers in bright daubs of raingear hand-pick coffee cherries into baskets....
...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
..., chairman, Coca-Cola, Atlanta, Georgia, August 21 1976; Ronald Reagan, former governor of California, Orlando, Florida, March 4 1976; George Meany, president, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, March 3 1976; Edmund...
...It is backed by family-owned manufacturers, farming trade groups and representatives from the AFL-CIO and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, both labour groups....
...Patrick McGee 21....
...In a symbol of encroaching globalisation, Mike Ashley parked the international headquarters of his Sports Direct retail outlet directly over the old mine shafts in 2005....
...Zhifei is the local distribution partner of Merck to sell its approved vaccines in China including Gardasil 9....
...An inventor by profession, Filipescu has a patented electrical clip and a new kind of cling-film cutter to his name. His wife is an anaesthetist and their 21-year-old son is studying medicine....
...We have at our fingertips a brand new sector that will create a multibillion pound industry, provide tens of thousands of jobs across the country and create a significant local supply chain....
...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....
...While the phenomenon of workers leaving their children at home has existed for decades, officials say that it is getting worse....
...of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize....
...“Certainly [the accident] will factor into [US trade] decision-making,” says Celeste Drake, a trade official at the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labour unions in the US....
...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....
...The US is considering whether to withdraw trade privileges – under the generalised system of preferences (GSP) – following a campaign by the AFL-CIO, the US trade union federation....
...Last month, the government ordered the two sides into 21 days of negotiations after the Australian airline grounded all its flights in response to rolling strikes by its unions....
...International donors recognise the threat the informal economy poses to growth in countries recovering from almost two years of political upheaval....
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