Hints and tips:
...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....
...“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....
...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...
...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...
...“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 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....
...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...
...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....
...While in DC, Truss met AFL-CIO union president Richard Trumka to discuss protecting manufacturing and benefiting workers, apparently....
...Back in 2015, trade unions and environmentalists lined up to oppose the TPA being given to Obama. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said it would only lead to “more lost jobs and lower wages”....
...The pick was welcomed by trade groups and the AFL-CIO, the biggest union umbrella organisation....
...Our person in the news is Richard Trumka, who heads up the AFL-CIO union....
...On that subject, an interesting announcement this week: the appointment of Celeste Drake, longtime official of the AFL-CIO labour union federation, to be the Made In America point person in the White House...
...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...
...Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO union, said Ms Tanden understood how to “connect policies and programmes” to the issues working families cared about....
...As Donald Trump pushes Congress to pass his trade deal with Canada and Mexico, he faces strong opposition from Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO labour federation....
...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
...Ms Pelosi was able to extract enough concessions from Mr Trump for the deal to be endorsed by the AFL-CIO, the largest trade union federation....
...The revisions to the pact secured by Ms Pelosi ensured that the AFL-CIO, the largest US trade union group, is supporting the agreement....
...Richard Trumka, the leader of the AFL-CIO labour union federation, who has previously criticised the pact and whose support could be pivotal among Democrats, was briefing members of his organisation’s executive...
...Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO trade union federation, told The Washington Post this month that it would be a “colossal mistake” for the deal to be voted on before Thanksgiving, arguing it...
...“You want to know that the board knows what’s going on, and is actively working on managing the risk,” said Sarah Lewis, an official with the AFL-CIO union federation....
...Much of the repositioning has come in the form of letters signed by scores of chief executives: in the past year, the likes of Walt Disney and Goldman Sachs have joined forces with AFL-CIO union leaders...
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