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...Unions are what “cuts into that gender pay gap,” argued Liz Shuler, the first woman president of the AFL-CIO union federation, as part of her “State of the Unions” speech last August, ahead of Labor Day....
...“They’ve been working nonstop trying to keep our country and our economy moving,” said Greg Regan, the president of the AFL-CIO department that represents the workers’ unions....
...Indeed, Tefere Gebre, a top executive in the AFL-CIO union, argues that “the 2020 platform of the Democratic party is the most pro-labour it has ever been”....
...Labour groups, including Human Rights Watch, the AFL-CIO, and Worker Rights Consortium are supporting the campaign....
...McLean, Virginia, August 24 1976; J Paul Austin, chairman, Coca-Cola, Atlanta, Georgia, August 21 1976; Ronald Reagan, former governor of California, Orlando, Florida, March 4 1976; George Meany, president, AFL-CIO...
...Maersk has invested $1bn and engaged more than 50 of its engineers each year for the past four in cleaner technology development....
...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...
...A gravel-voiced former prosecutor and US Marine Corps officer, Mr Kelaher says asking people to give up their beach homes is not feasible....
...The left remains implacably opposed to any trade agreement — the AFL-CIO, America’s largest union, has promised to stop funding any Democrat who votes for the Pacific deal....
...A spokesman for the AFL-CIO, the US’s biggest union federation, said: “Immigrant workers haven’t been organising in support of executive action to halt needless deportations in order to allow tech companies...
...Yet trade unions like the AFL-CIO that form the leftwing base of the Democratic Party are wholly unconvinced....
...It’s the type of relationship that’s beneficial in both directions.”...
...There is also strong support from a disparate array of outside groups, from business representatives, such as the Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable, to labour unions including the AFL-CIO and SEIU...
...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....
...Encouraged by Chuck Schumer, a Democratic senator, and Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator, representatives from the US Chamber of Commerce, the big business lobby group, and the AFL-CIO, the biggest federation...
...So do the AFL-CIO labour group and the US Chamber of Commerce, organisations that differ sharply on many issues but unite in calling for the US to rebuild....
...Qantas and the unions representing its pilots, ground crew and engineers will now resolve the dispute through binding arbitration, overseen by Australia’s industrial relations tribunal....
...Chief executives at some of America’s largest companies earned an average of $11.4m in total pay – 343 times more than a typical US worker, according to a report by AFL-CIO, the labour federation....
...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....
...Damon Silvers, associate general counsel at the AFL-CIO, the largest trade union federation, said the lobbying blitz by the private equity industry was likely to fall on deaf ears....
...So, today, we see the Democrats in the US Congress (AFL-CIO, ICFTU etc) trying to raise standards in the poor countries, almost entirely because they wish to raise the cost of production of their rivals...
...For some - particularly the UK, with its sophisticated defence industry - such a deal has been beneficial....
...Binghua (Ben) Zhang, Senior Business Analyst, Marine Business Development, Lloyd’s Register Joseph Stiglitz: I agree with Martin Wolf....
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