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...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...
...Under Abruzzo, a career NLRB attorney who has also worked for the Communications Workers of America union, the agency has taken a union-friendly approach....
...“You can have the fanciest technology but in the end we need to make sure workers feel their companies respect their right to a collective voice,” says Feingold of the AFL-CIO....
...I’ll never forget an interview I did years ago with the late Richard Trumka, the then-president of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labour union....
...Trumka’s successor as AFL-CIO president, Liz Shuler, said the act “is how we reform our woefully outdated labour laws [and] build a better future by empowering workers to organise and bargain”....
...In over a decade as leader of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Trumka became one of the most powerful labour leaders in the US....
...Tim Schlittner, communications director of the AFL-CIO, said the federation believed “all workers, including police officers, have the right to organise and bargain collectively....
...She is widely seen as a contender for the presidency of the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations), a position regarded as the symbolic head of the American labour...
...Of those, 18 were based in just six “right to work” states in the Deep South, according to a new study from the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labour union....
...Darrin Kelly, president of the Allegheny County Labor Council, a local branch of the AFL-CIO labour federation, says: “I think over generations there has been a loss of message between certain Democrats...
...The move was welcomed by Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, who called it a “major victory for working people that will improve the lives of millions of families”....
...His factory runs 24/7, and it produces 56,000 square meters of ceramic tiles—enough to cover ten football fields—every day. He employs nearly eleven hundred workers, a thousand of which are locals....
...More than 40 trade union groups, including the influential American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, have demanded that their pension funds take more a more active role in tackling...
...“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....
...(AFL-CIO) has vowed to make it a campaign issue....
...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....
...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....
...The AFL-CIO points to a poll that shows 73 per cent of Americans are in favour of card check but other polls are less stark or turn the other way....
..., AFL-CIO, as labour secretary....
...The TUC and its US equivalent, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), are joining forces to “thwart employer efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to demonise...
...Ron Blackwell, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, a leading US union federation, said: “If they [private equity and hedge funds] have such a good story to tell, then they should come out from under their stone...
...The writer is president of the AFL-CIO...
...of labor which contributed to the virtual collapse of world economic activity....
...There, only one in ten private sector employees belongs to a union. Last summer a few breakaway unions split from the AFL-CIO (the main union body) to re-form under the “Change to Win” banner....
...“America’s pension funds need to be careful, because private equity is a game for grown-ups,” warns Damon Silvers, associate general counsel at the AFL-CIO union federation....
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