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...“Workers know stuff,” says Amanda Ballantyne, director of the AFL-CIO Technology Institute, whom I discussed the developments with at the Code conference on AI last week in southern California....
...Andy Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union, said he had been contacted by a group of academics earlier this year who encouraged him to “add my voice” to an alleged chorus of...
...“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...
...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
...CBS declined to comment on the terms of its agreement with the Service Employees International Union. The property sector is also in the spotlight....
...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....
...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....
...He scoffs at the fashionable idea of younger employees having mentors to guide them through tough periods....
...“2013 is our window of opportunity,” said Eliseo Medina, secretary-treasurer of the SEIU, one of the US’s biggest unions, representing healthcare and public service employees....
...The meeting will follow on the heels of one with progressive groups such as the NAACP and the National Council of la Raza, as well as the SEIU and AFL-CIO labour unions....
...Andy Stern, the former president of the powerful Service Employees International Union and a member of the 2010 bipartisan deficit commission, added: “I think unions and progressive organisations had a huge...
...Instead, it comes from Priorities USA Action, a “super political action committee” that supports President Barack Obama, and the SEIU service employees union....
...Although the unions’ specific demands differ, most centre on Qantas’ use of lower-cost labour via outsourcing or its greater reliance on employees of its low-cost subsidiary, Jetstar....
...In the US, corporate leaders earned 319 times more than the average worker in 2008 (although this was down from 525 times in 2000), the AFL-CIO trade union federation said....
...Andy Stern, head of the Service Employees International Union, was in broad agreement: “They backed the truck up to Fort Knox in broad daylight....
...Andy Stern, the powerful head of the Services Employees International Union, will push US senators for a vote on far-reaching reform of labour laws in “spring”, even if Democrats plead for delay and even...
...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....
...“We have the president on our side,” says Richard Trumka, secretary treasurer of the AFL-CIO union coalition....
...Third, Mr Obama’s main union support comes from the Service Employees International Union and the Teamsters, neither of which is protectionist: the SEIU’s membership is in the non-traded sector and, except...
...Much of that can be attributed to Andy Stern, head of the Service Employees International Union, America’s fastest growing union with 1.8m members....
...Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will also be giving evidence to the hearing....
..., 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, in a peaceful...
...Often there are tensions between the leading unions – such as the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, which also spend heavily on the Democrats – and their counterparts in business, whose...
...It is hard to fault the council’s decisionmaking in this area,” says Joe DiNicola, president of the local Service Employees International Union....
...The service employees union and the Teamsters, representing transport workers, disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO, blaming its leadership for failing to prevent a decline in influence that has reduced the share...
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