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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...
...“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....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...“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....
...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....
...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....
..., AFL-CIO, as labour secretary....
...It is hard to fault the council’s decisionmaking in this area,” says Joe DiNicola, president of the local Service Employees International Union....
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