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...The trade unions, including United Auto Workers, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, United Steelworkers, backed by AFL-CIO, have all written to the White House demanding that...
...“You can have the fanciest technology but in the end we need to make sure workers feel their companies respect their right to a collective voice,” says Feingold of the AFL-CIO....
...“Katherine Tai’s nomination signals a stark departure from the failed practices of the past,” said Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO....
...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....
...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...
...AFL-CIO deputy chief of staff and long-time adviser on trade policy....
...Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO, the largest US labour federation, said working class voters had taken a gamble on the idea that Mr Trump would fight for them, but his administration was being taken...
...“This is an agreement that is going to hurt the American workers and their families,” Rosa Delauro, one of the TPP’s leading opponents in Congress told a rally convened by the AFL-CIO this week....
...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....
...(AFL-CIO) has vowed to make it a campaign issue....
...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....
...Meanwhile, AFL-CIO, the labour federation, has started a super-Pac, Workers’ Voices, which raised $3.7m in the last six months of last year....
...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....
...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....
...Bush’s electoral maestro – or Working America – the vehicle for AFL-CIO, the largest trade union grouping – is enough to flood a relatively small market....
...The AFL-CIO union federation argues the so-called “card check” law is needed and accuses some companies of pressing staff not to support foundation of a union....
...“We have the president on our side,” says Richard Trumka, secretary treasurer of the AFL-CIO union coalition....
...AFL-CIO, which represents 10m workers, has set aside more than $50m (€32m, £25.4m) to mobilise voters, in addition to the tens of millions its member unions are expected to spend....
...They are in an abyss out there,” said Patrick Eiding, president of the Philadelphia council of the AFL-CIO, a federation of unions....
...The writer is president of the AFL-CIO...
...It is a gift to protectionism that the Democrats can hardly wait to give to their lobbyists such as the AFL-CIO union federation....
...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,...
...“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....
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