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...Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO: Seventy-one per cent of the public supports unions generally, and 88 per cent of young people under the age of 30 do....
...Chiefs of companies on the US S&P 500 index were paid three times more in 2022, earning on average $16.7mn (£13.6mn at the time), according to labour union federation AFL-CIO....
...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....
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...AFL-CIO, which boasts 12.5m members, supported the introduction of steel and aluminium tariffs and endorsed Biden. United Steelworkers has backed steel and aluminium tariffs, and also endorsed Biden....
...Tim Burga, head of the Ohio branch of the AFL-CIO, the biggest US union organisation, said the state had been losing jobs for years, opening the door to Mr Trump in 2016....
...I mean come on — this man has a bust of César Chávez in his office and is close friends with AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka....
...The labour provisions were crucial to securing the support of labour unions like the AFL-CIO, which have traditionally opposed US trade agreements....
...Courtney Alexander, deputy director at campaign group Unite Here, said: “Investors are aware that the issue of sexual harassment is a real one in the hospitality industry....
...The system is “completely broken”, according to Jeremy Haicken, president of the union UNITE HERE Local 737, which represents many workers at Disney; only a fraction of post-crisis claimants have received...
...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....
...Darrin Kelly, president of the Allegheny County Labor Council, a local branch of the AFL-CIO labour federation, says: “I think over generations there has been a loss of message between certain Democrats...
...The left remains implacably opposed to any trade agreement — the AFL-CIO, America’s largest union, has promised to stop funding any Democrat who votes for the Pacific deal....
...For weeks, Samuel Lathem, a Baptist preacher who for more than a decade has been president of Delaware’s chapter of the AFL-CIO, the US’s largest trade union, has been fretting about job losses connected...
...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....
...The organisation’s super-Pac also received $500,000 from each of the following unions: the American Federation of Teachers; Unite Here Tip State and Local Fund; and the American Federation of State, County...
...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....
...Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO’s director of organising, said: “The US’s $4bn [£2.1bn] union- busting industry is by far our worst export....
..., 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...
...Unite Here, a union that represents more than 450,000 US hotel, casino and restaurant workers, became the fourth major union to split from the AFL-CIO, a national umbrella group increasingly failing to stop...
...The labour movement as personified by the AFL-CIO has been unsuccessful in standing up for working families,” said Bruce Raynor, president of Unite Here....
...The other unions that will boycott the Chicago convention are the Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers and Unite Here....
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