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At Wednesday Tampa Event, Florida Rep. Heller, Tampa Councilwoman Miller to Sign Statement Supporting TSA Bargaining Rights and TSA Union's Efforts at the Agency
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TAMPA, Fla. , Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Florida state Representative Bill Heller, Tampa Councilwoman Gwen Miller, various community leaders and activists, and labor union representatives will show their support for Transportation Security... Full Article at PR Newswire
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When our banking system was in crisis last year, Congress acted with lightning speed to bail out banks—but although Wall Street and the banksters have seen a recovery, working families are still facing a crisis of disappearing jobs. Full Article at AFL-CIO Blog
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AFL-CIO President John Sweeney introduces US President Barack Obama during the AFL-CIO Convention at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania, September 15, 2009. View Photo »
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From the beginning, AFGE has stood with the TSOs to defend their rights on the job and improve working conditions ... We believe the best way to build power for all TSOs is to join AFGE and the 11.5 million members of AFL-CIO affiliated unions.
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Casa Latina—a worker center that serves all low-wage workers, including immigrant workers—is affiliating with the Washington State Labor Council to encourage closer cooperation in the fight for immigrant workers’ rights. Full Article at AFL-CIO Blog
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In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers. Full Article at Corrente
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Pratt & Whitney Ships 1,000 Jobs Overseas Despite State Incentives—and More Bargaining News
AFL-CIO Blog
Pratt & Whitney ships jobs overseas despite incentives, and more news from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 1,200 subscribers. Full Article at AFL-CIO Blog
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US President Barack Obama (R) shake hands during the AFL-CIO Convention at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania, September 15, 2009. View Photo »
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Another key was winning the eleventh-hour endorsement of the AFL-CIO, which had opposed SunRail and the surrounding legislation as a thinly veiled attempt at union busting. Talks between bill sponsors and union leaders went on for weeks and culminated in what AFL-CIO President Mike Williams called a com...
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Former Congressman Dick Gephardt Brings National Spotlight to Rhode Island with 'Best and Brightest Forum on Medical Innovation'
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-- Leonard Bell, M.D. , CEO, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Full Article at Freshnews.com
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Bob Baugh, executive director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council and co-chair of the AFL-CIO Energy Task Force, sends us this report from the second day at the climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, where 40 U.S. union members are part of a 4... Full Article at AFL-CIO Blog
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From the beginning, AFGE has stood with the TSOs to defend their rights on the job and improve working conditions ... We believe the best way to build power for all TSOs is to join AFGE and the 11.5 million members of AFL-CIO affiliated unions.
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Another key was winning the eleventh-hour endorsement of the AFL-CIO, which had opposed SunRail and the surrounding legislation as a thinly veiled attempt at union busting. Talks between bill sponsors and union leaders went on for weeks and culminated in what AFL-CIO President Mike Williams called a com...
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An important move came early Tuesday afternoon when the Florida AFL-CIO said it had reached a compromise with transportation officials in a dispute about protecting rail-worker jobs -- a major issue for many Democrats. 'It was a key to whether this legislation was going to pass,' said Senate Minority Le...
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Rather than offering the expected formality of endorsing the sitting Democratic governor, the Illinois AFL-CIO today instead issued Pat Quinn a stinging rebuke by opting not to make an endorsement in the race for the Democratic nomination ... Make no mistake, this is a direct reflection of the Governor’...
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is proposing a plan that would extend jobless benefits, send billions in relief to the states, open up credit to small businesses, pour more into infrastructure projects, and bring throngs of new workers onto the federal payroll — at a cost of between $400 billion and $5...
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Florida AFL-CIO says it will 'aggressively' fight SunRail deal
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The Florida AFL-CIO stands strongly in opposition to the SunRail transaction and will continue to fight for the Florida’s railroad workers until such time that their issues are addressed. We will fight for their jobs, their benefits, their rights and their dignity.
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The House change began Monday night when leaders scheduled AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect, to address the House Democratic Caucus
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Labor unions pounced on the idea of a new jobs bill as a way to include several provisions that were cut out of the $787 billion stimulus package in order to placate a trio of Republican senators ... A day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told colleagues he plans to bring up such a measu...
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They are spending a great, great deal in this country…. probably more on influence and the obtaining of influence, of power, than of any organization I know of in this country, and that includes the AFL-CIO, that includes the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that includes General Motors, that includes anybody.
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And when you add in September, with the G-20 and the AFL-CIO [meetings], we will bounce back strong
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Now that Dede Scozzafava has dropped out of the race, labor’s choice to represent the 23rd Congressional District is crystal clear ... Bill Owens has the full support and resources of the New York State AFL-CIO at his disposal.
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You have two former heads of AFL-CIO unions at the NMB and they really are politicizing the process
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Right now, 40,000 TSA employees are on the verge of winning their collective bargaining rights. Our sisters and brothers in AFGE are going to organize them, and...I want you to know that the AFL-CIO will stand with them until every last one of those TSA employees are organized
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The AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and other labor groups were leading a rally expected to draw 5,000 participants outside the annual conference for the American Bankers Association (ABA).
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AFL-CIO union, which 'sponsors' ACORN.
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was signed by the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the United Steelworkers, among others.
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In an 18-year state legislative career, he has a cumulative 92% rating on the Virginia AFL-CIO’s scorecard of votes. He’s refused to denounce national union priorities such as card check. During a rough-and-tumble Democratic primary earlier this year, he visited picketers outside a Hilton hotel.
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The AFL-CIO and leading institutional investors continue to work with President Obama, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, and House Committee Chairman Barney Frank to pass landmark ’say on pay’ bill
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Ahead Of Obama’s AFL-CIO Appearance, Labor Officials Express Concern Over Excise Tax
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They also have used their pension funds to force employers to negotiate union contracts or agree to specific demands. Richard Trumka, secretary treasurer of the AFL-CIO, said in 2000 that the labor federation planned to use the ‘clout of union pension funds as major corporate stockholders to influence c...
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This includes repeated motions by the AFL-CIO to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose their drug reimportation policies and pressuring oil companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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This stuff [EPA head] Carol Browner is trying to do is just insane, and [AFL-CIO President John] Sweeney, someone's got to hit him in the mouth
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Thursday urged some state insurance commissioners to investigate how the costs of insurers' lobbying to defeat health-insurance reform are affecting premiums.
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We did follow the AFL-CIO, and we followed the Democratic Party, and we did review the questionnaires, and they were the ones that stood closest with our philosophies
SOURCE: Cincinnati Enquirer
