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....
...“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....
...On Labor Day in early September, Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest union group, joined Joe Biden for a Facebook Live event and gave him a glowing appraisal....
...The 50,000-member Association of Flight Attendants, an AFL-CIO affiliate, and the Seattle-based King County Labor Council, which represents 150 unions and 100,000 workers, have demanded that police unions...
...The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust has also been busy making use of mortgage-backed securities to help fund affordable housing projects that employ unionised construction workers....
...Other targets included parts of the UN and the AFL-CIO, a confederation of American unions that may have been of interest to the Chinese because it was involved in trade negotiations....
...On Thursday outside the AFL-CIO union headquarters — a block from the White House — hundreds of federal workers and their supporters gathered, demanding that Mr Trump reopen the government, shouting slogans...
...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...
...Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO, the largest US labour federation, said working class voters had taken a gamble on the idea that Mr Trump would fight for them, but his administration was being taken...
...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”....
...A report last spring by the AFL-CIO union, which stripped management roles out of average worker pay, calculated a multiple of 335 times. Two decades ago it was below 50....
...Groups involved also include the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, the National Council of La Raza and Voto Latino....
...we saw with Nafta or China, but we are worried about a race to the bottom on wages, labour rights, environmental and consumer protections,” said Celeste Drake, trade and globalisation specialist at the Afl-Cio...
...The AFL-CIO’s views are distinctly at odds with the way that many US business groups are eyeing the trade talks with the EU....
...“Citizens United [the Supreme Court’s decision lifting caps on donations] has ushered in a new era of elections, and it is not a pretty picture,” said Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO, the peak union...
...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....
...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...
...It is hard to fault the council’s decisionmaking in this area,” says Joe DiNicola, president of the local Service Employees International Union....
...John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO umbrella group, argues: ?It is nothing short of immoral that big, rich companies are shirking their responsibilities.?...
...But he has the support of the TUC, the DGB in Germany, the AFL-CIO in the US, Cosatu in South Africa and many more....
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