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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....
...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...
...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...
...“We were in the local Wetherspoons [pub], where everybody gets the inspiration for an international luxury watch company,” jokes founder Jonny Garrett....
...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...
...In the first quarter of this year, there were 12,561 sales involving a foreign buyer, according to the Association of Spanish Land Registrars, down 23 per cent on Q1 2019....
...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...
...Our person in the news is Richard Trumka, who heads up the AFL-CIO union....
...Labour groups, including Human Rights Watch, the AFL-CIO, and Worker Rights Consortium are supporting the campaign....
...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
...California, Orlando, Florida, March 4 1976; George Meany, president, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, March 3 1976; Edmund Muskie, US senator (Maine), Washington, DC, March 1 1976; Eugene McCarthy, former US senator...
...Marcello Brito, the head of the Brazilian Association of Agribusiness, told local media that a boycott of Brazilian products was “a matter of time”....
...At one point police mistakenly diverted traffic in the direction of the fire because of a communications breakdown with firefighters....
..., and who was a councillor and president of the local hoteliers association when the plan for the new lift connection was formed. “They’ve been talking about it for 50 years,” he said....
...Sharan Burrow, president of the International Trade Union Confederation, the association of unions representing 176m workers, said: “We cannot allow workers’ money to be quietly used in investments that...
...Hopes are high that the landmark nuclear accord Tehran negotiated with the US and other world powers this month could lead to the removal of international sanctions....
...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....
...Last week, Sharon Levine, a lawyer representing the AFSCME and AFL-CIO unions, told the FT her clients viewed the process as “extremely one-sided and heavy handed against the retirees”....
...Despite the limited reach of the suspension, Richard Trumka, the AFL-CIO president, said the decision “sends an important message to our trading partners, that countries that benefit from preferential trade...
...On Monday, dozens of powerful labour, environmental and consumer groups – including the AFL-CIO – the largest US trade union federation – sent a letter to Congress urging members to oppose the effort....
...Citing Dhaka’s “apparent disregard for the lives and livelihoods of the very workers who create the country’s wealth”, the AFL-CIO, the US trade union federation, has been pressing Washington to suspend...
...“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....
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