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...UK supermarkets are having to increase wages to combat staff shortages in what one union has called a “market correction”....
...William Spriggs, chief economist for the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union federation, says one of the reasons that the black community in particular is pushing for free college tuition is that poor black...
...As Donald Trump pushes Congress to pass his trade deal with Canada and Mexico, he faces strong opposition from Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO labour federation....
...Planned Parenthood yesterday also filed a lawsuit, alongside the American Civil Liberties Union, challenging Republican-controlled Ohio’s decision to ban abortions after six weeks....
...While two-thirds of Americans say they do not believe that Roe v Wade should be overturned, views on the issue change significantly depending on how far to term the mother is....
...The plaintiff, Mark Janus, is an Illinois child services worker who refuses to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees....
...Last week the US Supreme Court ruled in the Janus v AFSCME case that it is unconstitutional to require non-union member workers in the public sector to pay (reduced) fees to unions that negotiate salaries...
...It’s an apt name for the Supreme Court’s latest terrible decision, the 5-4 ruling in Janus v AFSCME, which will defund what is left of America’s union movement....
...Secondly, that market access for our businesses could deteriorate, whether through more ‘buy American’ rules or through extra hurdles for foreign investment.”...
...But disagreements emerged over whether the Russian Federation, which had made a decisive contribution to the self-dismantling of the Soviet Union, should be considered the loser....
...According to John Keenan, a governance analyst at AFSCME, the largest trade union of public employees in the US, the average support rate for similar proposals so far this year is about 28 per cent, marking...
...Already, the resistance from the financial services industry is “huge,” says John Keenan, a lobbying specialist at AFSCME, the largest trade union of public employees in the US....
...Americans and Europeans must therefore go on the offensive in another way – by raising the costs to Mr Putin for his reckless actions....
...Henry Bayer, executive director of the Illinois chapter of The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), said the failed bills floated by the state’s governor and a bipartisan...
...This year, both the SEIU and AFSCME unions are funding attack ads to try to weaken Mr Romney, the candidate that Mr Obama’s re-election campaign most fears, and make it more difficult for him to capture...
...The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees had been pressing the bank to separate the dual role of chairman and chief executive – a position held by Lloyd Blankfein....
...Mr Ferlauto’s staff at AFSCME advises 80 union-linked trustees who sit on boards controlling over $1,000bn (£623bn, €680bn) in assets. That is just one union....
...While labour groups such as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (Afscme) often submit shareholder proposals to companies deemed to have weak corporate governance policies, the...
...Citi is certain to reject the call by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (Afscme), whose pension funds own a small stake in Citi....
...Rugby union reaches its own opening day this weekend....
...The call by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (Afscme), one of the biggest US unions with more than 1.4m members, is certain to be rejected by Citi....
...Mr Clark works as an organiser with the AFL-CIO union federation’s Working America campaign, while his wife is a prison officer with the state who saw colleagues lose their jobs in the budget cuts....
...The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (Afscme) plans to call on other investors at Tuesday’s annual shareholder meeting to support a split between Citi’s investment banking and...
...The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (Afscme), which has 1.4m members, will urge investors at Tuesday’s annual shareholder meeting to support a split between Citi’s investment...
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