AFL-CIO Sees Wisconsin as Springboard for Repositioning
The AFL-CIO is poised for action in response to a series of coordinated Republican attacks against public employees that threatens the very existence of unions’ collective bargaining rights.
View ArticleAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Makes Statement On 2012 Union Membership...
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka offered a statement explaining the urgent need for men and women to have their voices heard on the job. He discusses union membership and the impact it has on the...
View ArticleOperating Engineers Elect Callahan To First Full Term As President; Trumka...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. —Delegates to the Operating Engineers convention unanimously elected James Callahan, who stepped up to the union’s presidency to fill an unexpired term, to his first full term as head...
View ArticleUnions Solve One of Two Snags Related To Big Airline Merger
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Two unions, the Transport Workers and the Machinists, representing workers at American Airlines and US Airways, which plan to merge, have solved one big snag the proposed combined...
View ArticleAFL-CIO, Clinton Initiative Celebrate Collaboration For Job Creation
Thank you to Wendi Caporicci, secretary of AFSA and 40-year veteran of the Oakland Unified School District, for taking some pictures of of this ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 18 as educators, the...
View ArticleTrumka: American Dream ‘Is Elusive’ for Many
WASHINGTON—Achieving the American Dream “is still elusive” for millions of U.S. workers – low-paid and middle class, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says. In a wide-ranging interview/breakfast with...
View ArticleUnion Leaders Laud, Eulogize Mandela
WASHINGTON —Union leaders lauded Nelson Mandela as one of the world’s greatest fighters for human rights and democracy after the longtime South African liberation leader – and his nation’s first...
View ArticleUnion Leaders Slam Federal Budget Deal
WASHINGTON—Government workers’ union leaders and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka slammed the federal budget deal top lawmakers reached on Dec. 10, saying it unfairly hits the nation’s 2 million...
View ArticleTrumka, Top Woman Workers’ Group Hail Obama Overtime Pay Plan; ATU’s Hanley:...
WASHINGTON –AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and a top group that fights for female workers are praising Democratic President Barack Obama’s plan to expand eligibility for overtime pay to millions of...
View ArticleTrumka to Obama: Fast-Track is Dead; Construct Pro-Worker Trade Policy
WASHINGTON –Declaring presidential “fast-track” trade authority dead, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is challenging Democratic President Barack Obama to construct a new pro-worker U.S. trade policy,...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Joins Other Progressives in Democracy Alliance, As Coalition Turns...
CHICAGO –The AFL-CIO stepped forward to publicly proclaim its membership in a wide-ranging coalition of progressive groups, the Democracy Alliance, even as that coalition turns its attention from...
View ArticleTrumka: Workers to hold pols accountable if transportation bill fails
WASHINGTON –AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has a blunt warning for the nation’s politicians, regardless of party: Pass an infrastructure bill this year, to create jobs and help the economy, or suffer...
View ArticleTrumka: Economy Leaves Workers ‘Confused, Angry, Frustrated, Scared’
LAS VEGAS–Stagnation of workers’ wages and declining benefits for the last 40 years, with the Great Recession piled on top of that, has left U.S. workers “confused, angry, frustrated and scared,”...
View ArticleLabor to Court Some Tea Partyites — Trumka
LAS VEGAS –Is organized labor, in its quest to broaden coalitions and add allies, ready to court Tea Partyites? AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has raised that possibility. Trumka has made outreach...
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