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...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....
...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....
...“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...
...Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents more than 30,000 workers, primarily on the West Coast, stopped work for nine minutes on Tuesday morning in Floyd’s honour....
...We unpick what it, and her appointment, might tell us about Biden’s trade policy. Our person in the news is Richard Trumka, who heads up the AFL-CIO union....
...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
...The International Longshore & Warehouse Union is fighting a plan by Denmark’s AP Moller-Maersk to use unmanned electric vehicles instead of diesel trucks to shuttle shipping containers around the largest...
...The deal between the Pacific Maritime Association, representing employers, and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union followed nine months of talks....
...While both the PMA and International Longshore and Warehouse Union said they intended to restart work on Monday, it remained unclear on Sunday how long work would continue, given the dire state of relations...
...Eric Shultz, a White House press secretary, said the PMA and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union had been negotiating “for months”....
...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....
...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 AFL-CIO labour union, urged Tribune in May not to sell to the Koch brothers, saying they had promoted “an ideological agenda” and could affect the newspapers’ reputation for independent journalism....
...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....
...Tim Burga, president of the AFL-CIO federation of trade unions in Ohio, says blue-collar voters in the state will see through Mr Romney’s rhetoric given his opposition to the Obama administration’s bailout...
...“One of my kids only worked a handful of days in the whole year,” says Mr Jurisic, an executive board member of Local 13, the Los Angeles division of the International Longshore Warehouse Union....
...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....
...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....
...For members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union such as Ms Hudak, the slump means looking for work elsewhere....
...The west coast labour union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, has a greater reputation for militancy than the International Longshoremen’s Association in the east....
...The Pacific Maritime Association said in a statement issued on Friday that members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union had unilaterally changed working practices at the twin ports of Los Angeles...
..., AFL-CIO, as labour secretary....
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