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...Because a lot of people don’t have the resources to be able to cover that gap for very long,” said Pat “Duke” Dujakovich, president of the greater Kansas City chapter of the AFL-CIO, the largest US trade...
...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....
...David Berteau, president of the Professional Services Council, a trade group that represents government contractors, said many of the council’s members had not been paid for government work done in December...
...AFL-CIO deputy chief of staff and long-time adviser on trade policy....
...“As we have seen, workers in hotels often face dangerous situations alone,” said Peter Ward, president of the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, the union that represents hotel workers....
...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....
...His words were echoed by Dan Pedrotty, director of the office of investments at the AFL-CIO, the trade union federation, who said executives were using their banks “like ATMs”....
...Since Mr Welch made the concept famous in a speech at New York’s Pierre Hotel in 1981, the short-term goal of rewarding shareholders by increasing profits and dividends every quarter has become a mantra...
...The broad-based coalition, whose participants range from the Business Roundtable, which represents 160 leading US chief executives, to the AFL-CIO, the largest union federation, will also call for an overhaul...
...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....
...The battle against Blackstone has been led by the AFL-CIO, the largest union federation in the US....
...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...
...enormous, mostly local, all-age crowd of men and women - welders, machinists, dockers, store clerks, fishermen, timber-industry workers, students, marching together under the aegis of the union federation AFL-CIO...
...“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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