Hints and tips:
...I sat down with four of America’s top union leaders — Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO (the federation of US trade unions); Claude Cummings, president of the Communications Workers of America; Randi...
...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...
...Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO union, wrote in a tweet on Sunday that the AT&T and Verizon joint letter “demonstrates the parties are not operating...
...Fair for Trade in Services opens in Beijing UK, Voting opens for Green party leadership election Friday China Fashion Week opens in Beijing Germany, Berlin International Beer Festival begins...
...Bill Spriggs: A veteran of both the Clinton and Obama administrations, he is chief economist at the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest union federation....
...Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO union, said Ms Tanden understood how to “connect policies and programmes” to the issues working families cared about....
...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
...Adam Smith’s prosperity through specialisation and the division of labour has begun to operate at a far finer-grained level than before....
...Trade union bodies such as the Amalgamated Bank, AFL-CIO and International Brotherhood of Teamsters are therefore focusing in particular on this aspect of golden parachute payouts....
...The National Security Agency unit responsible for liaising with allied governments, called the foreign affairs division, launched such “legal guidance operations” to weaken privacy legislation and find loopholes...
...But the AFL-CIO, the largest US labour union, says the deal led to an exodus of at least 700,000 jobs to Mexico as the trade deficit with America’s southern neighbour ballooned....
...The AFL-CIO labour union, urged Tribune in May not to sell to the Koch brothers, saying they had promoted “an ideological agenda” and could affect the newspapers’ reputation for independent journalism....
...PXtech R R D Trading t/a RDC Racal Acoustics (I) Racelogic Racelogic (I) Rakon UK Ramsden International Rapiscan Systems (I) Steve Rawlings (E) Rayovac Micropower, division of Spectrum Brands...
...We will upgrade our transportation and communications networks so you can move goods and information more quickly and cheaply....
...I propose to exempt the testing and certification of agricultural seeds from service tax. 152. I also propose to exempt the transportation by road of cereals and pulses from service tax....
...With telecommunications acumen gleaned from her former stint as president and chief executive of Excel Communications, Gold spearheaded Western Union’s mobile money transfer, updating traditional practices...
...Mohamed El-Erian is a co-CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, one of the largest investment management companies in the world....
...In an economy as sophisticated as ours, people have to interact and exchange goods and services constantly, and the division of labor is so finely articulated that every household depends on commerce simply...
...It is hard to fault the council’s decisionmaking in this area,” says Joe DiNicola, president of the local Service Employees International Union....
...So far, the differences between the AFL-CIO's leadership, led by the president John Sweeney, and rebel leaders, led by Andy Stern, head of the SEIU service sector union, have centred on strategic differences...
...Two of its largest members have already left the AFL-CIO federation. More may follow....
...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....
...Events Digital divide conference: The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is to hold the fourth World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) in Doha, Qatar in March 2006....
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