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...“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...
...“If you could get away with not paying any of your workers, your books would look a lot better,” she says. “We’re getting away with not paying nature, the ultimate worker.”...
...Her fellow panellists were former Trump national security adviser General Michael Flynn and a guy who runs Beverly Hills Precious Metals....
...This applies to energy too — what was local is now often international. Often, these enterprises are in rural locations lacking mains gas, so many use bottled liquefied petroleum gas....
...United Steelworkers, the steel workers union, supports them, as does AFL-CIO, the largest federation of US unions, which has 12.5m members....
...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...
...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...
...Every dollar spent in manufacturing adds $1.89 to local communities, according to the National Association for Manufacturers....
...Investors, both local and international, will require details on the future relationship (economic and trade) of the UK with the EU to make a decision whether to invest or not....
...But government grant funding for local services delivered by local councils will be cut by £1.3bn (36 per cent) in 2019/20, which will directly impact the less well off....
...One shows a worker in protective uniform, engaged in a perilous activity involving a tube and a metal tank....
...The rise in inflation over the past 18 months has been caused largely although not exclusively by the sharp fall in sterling after the EU referendum....
...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....
...Let local people decide Let’s put the power into the Northern Powerhouse....
...Other problems include a flourishing of local mafias, anger over some foreign factories’ perceived discrimination against local employees and a feeling among manual workers that they are giving their lives...
...“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....
...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....
...… Nick Sposato, an 18-year veteran of the Chicago fire department, serves as an alderman for a ward that is heavily populated by city workers....
...The fund, the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 33 Cleveland District Pension Plan, said it had entered into CDS deals with Citigroup....
...Members of Brazil’s leftist ruling Workers’ party (PT) have developed a stock response to such complaints....
...From China’s point of view, local production was revolutionised by association with the global companies. The Chinese partners grew large on the back of joint-venture production....
...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....
...The moans of bullfrogs emanating from the marshland along the 18th fairway are replaced by the ping ping of hammers hitting metal....
...The country’s tourism earnings fell 18 per cent in the first quarter, year on year....
...Outside the sheet-metal gates, security guards with shotguns eye passers-by and workers reporting for duty....
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