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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...
...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...
...Need to know: UK and Europe economy The UK is planning to fill some of the country’s 1.2mn vacancies by opening the doors to more foreign workers, starting with the construction industry....
...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....
...The crowd, which numbered hundreds rather than thousands, was a mix of locals and foreigners, men and women. Behind one of the goals, a group of men were beating drums....
...Our person in the news is Richard Trumka, who heads up the AFL-CIO union....
...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...
...— tourism, remittances and portfolio inflows into local debt....
...Labour groups, including Human Rights Watch, the AFL-CIO, and Worker Rights Consortium are supporting the campaign....
...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....
...At night, outdoor boxing matches in the main square draw crowds of cheering locals....
..., 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...
...It is backed by family-owned manufacturers, farming trade groups and representatives from the AFL-CIO and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, both labour groups....
...Christian Shepherd in Beijing. 6....
...Zhifei is the local distribution partner of Merck to sell its approved vaccines in China including Gardasil 9....
...Across the continent, Africans accuse Chinese workers of refusing to integrate....
...We have at our fingertips a brand new sector that will create a multibillion pound industry, provide tens of thousands of jobs across the country and create a significant local supply chain....
...In November, Samsung Electronics agreed to acquire Harman International Industries of the US for $8bn....
...Funds have been freed up for local governments to support the development of industrial robots to reduce the reliance on human labour as factories struggle to find enough workers at low enough wages to remain...
...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....
...Zurich, a finalist in the International Disaster Relief category of BITC’s Responsible Business Awards, launched a flood resilience programme in 2013 to increase awareness of the risks and encourage the...
...of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize....
...“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....
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