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...Chiefs of companies on the US S&P 500 index were paid three times more in 2022, earning on average $16.7mn (£13.6mn at the time), according to labour union federation AFL-CIO....
...Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO: Seventy-one per cent of the public supports unions generally, and 88 per cent of young people under the age of 30 do....
...“Workers know stuff,” says Amanda Ballantyne, director of the AFL-CIO Technology Institute, whom I discussed the developments with at the Code conference on AI last week in southern California....
...On Monday, the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents shippers and terminals, accused the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents dock workers, of having staged “disruptive...
...information and tickets here And the late Anthony Minghella’s astonishing production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly returns to the Met Opera, with Aleksandra Kurzak, Eleonora Buratto and Asmik Grigorian as Cio-Cio-San...
...Those who have already qualified for the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) standard, an international certification scheme, will meet the EU’s requirements with relative ease....
...Biden may not have worked in a coal mine, but Rich Trumka, the late AFL-CIO leader (who was a former coal miner) was a close friend....
...The trade unions, including United Auto Workers, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, United Steelworkers, backed by AFL-CIO, have all written to the White House demanding that...
...“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...
...The AFL-CIO and 11 unions wrote to the SEC last week — two months after the initial deadline for comments — to “clear up any misunderstandings” and express their strong support for the regulator’s plans....
...“There are reasons why eight of the unions ratified [the agreement],” said Greg Regan, the president of the AFL-CIO department that represents the workers’ unions....
...The above is how William Spriggs, an economics professor at Howard University and chief economist at the AFL-CIO union federation, likes to think about it....
...Monti and his colleagues, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, say the shipping lines can afford to be generous....
...“They’ve been working nonstop trying to keep our country and our economy moving,” said Greg Regan, the president of the AFL-CIO department that represents the workers’ unions....
...Its lever of control, according to the commission, is the International Longshoremen’s Association....
...Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO union, wrote in a tweet on Sunday that the AT&T and Verizon joint letter “demonstrates the parties are not operating...
...“The labour movement, the AFL-CIO and the nation lost a legend today,” the AFL-CIO said....
...“If we have a much smaller labour force and you lock that in, you are locking in a permanently smaller economy,” said William Spriggs, an economist at Howard University and AFL-CIO, whose name has been floated...
...Other names that have been floated for leadership roles include Lisa Cook, an economist at Michigan State University, and William Spriggs, chief economist of the AFL-CIO labour union....
...AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said it would only lead to “more lost jobs and lower wages”....
...While in DC, Truss met AFL-CIO union president Richard Trumka to discuss protecting manufacturing and benefiting workers, apparently....
...The pick was welcomed by trade groups and the AFL-CIO, the biggest union umbrella organisation....
...United Steelworkers, the steel workers union, supports them, as does AFL-CIO, the largest federation of US unions, which has 12.5m members....
...On Labor Day in early September, Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest union group, joined Joe Biden for a Facebook Live event and gave him a glowing appraisal....
...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...
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