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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....
...“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....
...These elements are just the centrepiece of a planned complex, across 2,500 acres of wild and remote land, set to unfold over the next decade and a half....
...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....
...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....
...Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO trade union federation, told The Washington Post this month that it would be a “colossal mistake” for the deal to be voted on before Thanksgiving, arguing it...
...for District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, DC, July 29 1976; Leonard Woodcock, president, United Automobile Workers, New York, April 9 1976; Arnold Miller, president, United Mine Workers, Washington,...
...Encourage sales growth — and by this productivity, in local business activities including tourism, local services and start-ups....
...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...
...How the dedication and talent of one was supported by a united team....
...In the US, foreign-born workers account for 49 per cent of drywall installers and 44 per cent of roofers, according to the National Association of Home Builders....
...More than 50 entrepreneurs, including the co-founder of Innocent drinks and the chairman of Allied Irish Bank, backed Nick Clegg in a letter to the Financial Times....
...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...
...Groups such as the Business Roundtable and the US Chamber of Commerce, which has held joint events with the AFL-CIO, the traditionally reviled labour union, to lobby for infrastructure spending, speak derisively...
...The meeting will follow on the heels of one with progressive groups such as the NAACP and the National Council of la Raza, as well as the SEIU and AFL-CIO labour unions....
...The group attached to the country’s largest union grouping, the AFL-CIO, received $2.2m from the federation itself without giving a breakdown of where the money came from....
...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....
...They are in an abyss out there,” said Patrick Eiding, president of the Philadelphia council of the AFL-CIO, a federation of unions....
...The battle against Blackstone has been led by the AFL-CIO, the largest union federation in the US....
...mostly local, 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,...
...There, only one in ten private sector employees belongs to a union. Last summer a few breakaway unions split from the AFL-CIO (the main union body) to re-form under the “Change to Win” banner....
...“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....
...At the time Adam Smith wrote hundreds of trading ships came in and out from all parts of Europe, and Adam Smith, son of the local customs officer, could see with his own eyes how trade was the engine of...
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