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...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...
...“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...
...I’ll never forget an interview I did years ago with the late Richard Trumka, the then-president of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labour union....
...We hardly had the globalised digitised system that we have today. So it certainly needs an update....
...The 50,000-member Association of Flight Attendants, an AFL-CIO affiliate, and the Seattle-based King County Labor Council, which represents 150 unions and 100,000 workers, have demanded that police unions...
...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
...Of those, 18 were based in just six “right to work” states in the Deep South, according to a new study from the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labour union....
..., chairman, Coca-Cola, Atlanta, Georgia, August 21 1976; Ronald Reagan, former governor of California, Orlando, Florida, March 4 1976; George Meany, president, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, March 3 1976; Edmund...
...Brandon Rees, deputy director of the office of investment at AFL-CIO, the umbrella federation for dozens of US labour unions, notes that rising pay at the big banks ran against the overall trend at S&P companies...
...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....
...The decision, announced on Thursday, follows a petition from the AFL-CIO, the largest US union federation, complaining about labour and safety standards in Bangladesh....
...“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....
...Bangladesh is struggling to avert a threatened withdrawal of US trade privileges – under the generalised system of preferences (GSP) – following a campaign by the AFL-CIO, the US trade union federation....
...Establishing local R&D centers allows foreign players to leverage local innovation talent, as well as the entrepreneurial spirit and problem-solving skills of Israeli workers and focus them on long-term...
...Cary, a veteran pension attorney and board representative for the Transport Workers Union Local 100....
...You understand the importance of this. 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....
..., AFL-CIO, as labour secretary....
...There are plans for a new system of local democracy based on what Mr Chávez calls “communal councils”. All this is part of a wider pattern of changes that have underscored Mr Chávez’s radical intent....
...“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....
..., local currencies....
...IT workers in the US and Europe are right to be concerned about the growth of offshore outsourcing as TPI’s figures show that 40 per cent of the contracts awarded in 2004 on which it advised contained an...
...US IT workers still have an advantage on quality that they need to maintain and lengthen in order to compensate for the higher cost of workers here.”...
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