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“Jobs should be a priority, not constitutional amendments,” Hilstrom said. “Minnesotans expect us to work on creating jobs and not [be] wasting our time on matters such as these.” She said the amendment would force unions to pay for non-union employees.
Massachusetts AFL-CIO endorsed the not-yet-official congressional candidacy of Joseph P. Kennedy III yesterday — a pre-emptive move one prospective GOP opponent called a tactic straight out of the Camelot playbook — but Republicans say premature union...
Indiana AFL-CIO president Nancy Gayott, blue shirt center, leads union protestors on a march through the Super Bowl Village after the Senate votes to pass the right-to-work bill in Indianapolis, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. The governor is expected to sign... View Photo »
The CWA [Communications Workers of America AFL-CIO Local 1103] really wants to be a part of the comminty ... we feel that labor and community are natural partners. When we heard about this event we wanted to be supportive. Our goal is to bring to light areas where we must be more fairer toward people. I...
He said SB 5 was overwhelmingly repealed because of strong support from independent voters. "The data indicates that many of those same independents who stood up for unions this past November on SB5 are standing up to unions by backing 'right-to-work'...
Politics has obtained a draft copy of a letter being sent by the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO to all members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives regarding House Bill 1329, which seeks to raise the Prevailing Wage threshold from its current level...
What he’s doing with the Center for Union Facts is more of the same.” “They can’t do anything better than come up with schoolyard name-calling,” he said. The labor movement continues to focus the spotlight on Mr. Berman’s record with the AFL-CIO,...
AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyott and Rep. Phil GiaQuinta, D-Fort Wayne, walk to an open caucus meeting in the Statehouse Rotunda Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, in Indianapolis. Indiana House Republicans on Wednesday approved $1,000-a-day fines against... View Photo »
I went to my first luncheon with the AFL-CIO and they served these little steaks and potatoes, and I brought in a hamburger in a bag
“The New York State AFL-CIO is proud to endorse Shelley Mayer for State Assembly, because Shelley knows that working people are the backbone of our economy and our communities,” said Mario Cilento, president of the New York State AFL-CIO. “As a...
Elevator Corporation has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to install its PORT (Personal Occupant Requirement Terminal) elevator technology by real estate development company Related Midwest in Partnership with AFL-CIO Building Investment...
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL-CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 54 national and international unions (including Canadian), together representing more than 10 million workers. It was formed in 1955 when the AFL and the CIO... Full Article
AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyott and Rep. Phil GiaQuinta, D-Fort Wayne, walk to an open caucus meeting in the Statehouse Rotunda Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, in Indianapolis. Indiana House Republicans on Wednesday approved $1,000-a-day fines against boycotting Democratic legislators who...
View Photo »Wisconsin AFL-CIO president Phil Neuenfeldt speaks at a victory party for the Wisconsin recall effort at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, Wis. , Tuesday evening, Jan. 17, 2012. Opponents of Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker submitted nearly twice as...
View Photo »Arkansas AFL-CIO President Alan Hughes, foreground, speaks at a news conference at the foot of the Junction Bridge in Little Rock, Ark. , as Rep. Kathy Webb, D-Little Rock, far right, Jim Ryan of the Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union, second from right, Justin Nickels, of the American Federation...
View Photo »President Barack Obama, accompanied by Randi Weingarten of AFL-CIO , right, and others, gestures while speaking in a building under construction in Washington, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, part of his Better Building Initiative to promote energy efficient buildings.
View Photo »AFL-CIO Deputy Chief of Staff Thea Lee addresses the Reuters Washington Summit in the Reuters newsroom in Washington, November 9, 2011.
View Photo »AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, center, leaves Laborers Local 310's union hall in Cleveland Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. Trumpka spoke to local union members and college students before heading out to knock on doors and talk to voters urging opposition to a ballot issue that would keep a law...
View Photo »AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, center, speaks with Columbia University students at a union hall in Cleveland Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. The students joined Trumka and local union members going door to door in the area urging a no vote on Ohio Issue 2.
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 30: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks about jobs at the Brookings Institution September 30, 2011 in Washington, DC. Trumka talked about a range of proposals now before Congress that are intended to create new jobs.
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 30: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka walks up to the podium to speak about jobs at the Brookings Institution September 30, 2011 in Washington, DC. Trumka talked about a range of proposals now before Congress that are intended to create new jobs.
View Photo »A man walks past the AFL-CIO Union sign that hangs on the headquarters building September 29, 2011, in Washington, DC.
View Photo »A close-up image is seen of the AFL-CIO Union Logo that hangs on the headquarters building September 29, 2011, in Washington, DC.
View Photo »AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks at a rally for nurses outside of Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley, Calif. , Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. Nurses began picketing Thursday morning outside dozens of Northern and Central California hospitals as part of a one-day strike over benefit...
View Photo »Richard L. Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, speaks during a news conference at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, September 20, 2011.
View Photo »DETROIT, MI - SEPTEMBER 05: Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis and National AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka waves to the crowd during a Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Central Labor Council on September 5, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan. They awaited President Barack Obama's...
View Photo »Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic, Monday, Sept. 5, 2011, at Coney Island in Cincinnati.
View Photo »U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to AFL-CIO Richard Trumpka (R) in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, August 31, 2011. Obama was pushing for a clean extension of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization which expires in mid-September.
View Photo »AFL-CIO President and President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness member Richard Trumka watches as US President Barack Obama speaks August 31, 2011 during an event urging Congress to pass an extension of the Surface Transportation Bill in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington,...
View Photo »FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011, file photo AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka talks to President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington after Obama urged Congress to pass a federal highway bill. Labor remains a core Democratic constituency and union leaders will...
View Photo »AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka talks to President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, where the president urged Congress to pass a federal highway bill.
View Photo »The AFL-CIO seal is seen on the building that houses the labor union on August 9, 2011, in Washington, DC.
View Photo »President Barack Obama, accompanied by former president Bill Clinton, right, Randi Weingarten of AFL-CIO , center, and others, gestures while speaking in a building under construction in Washington, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, part of his Better Building Initiative to promote energy efficient...
View Photo »President Barack Obama, accompanied by former president Bill Clinton, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue, second from left, and Randi Weingarten of AFL-CIO left, tours a building under construction in Washington, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, part of his Better Building Initiative...
View Photo »State Troopers escorts Charles Wowkanech, President of the N.J. AFL-CIO and about 30 other protesters out of a Senate Budget Committee Meeting in the State House Annex in Trenton, N.J. ,Thursday, June 16, 2011. Labor leaders rallying for collective bargaining rights in New Jersey went...
View Photo »Christopher M. Shelton, International Vice President of the AFL-CIO addresses supporters during a rally in front of the State House Annex in Trenton, N.J. ,Thursday, June 16, 2011. In Shelton's speech to thousands, he compared Gov. Chris Christie to Adolf Hitler.
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 20: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka addresses the National Press Club May 20, 2011 in Washington, DC. Trumka answered questions about what he calls the recent attack on organized labor and working families, and said that the unions would not support politicians,...
View Photo »AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyott and Rep. Phil GiaQuinta, D-Fort Wayne, walk to an open caucus meeting in the Statehouse Rotunda Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, in Indianapolis. Indiana House Republicans on Wednesday approved $1,000-a-day fines against boycotting Democratic legislators who...
View Photo »The CWA [Communications Workers of America AFL-CIO Local 1103] really wants to be a part of the comminty ... we feel that labor and community are natural partners. When we heard about this event we wanted to be supportive. Our goal is to bring to light areas where we must be more fairer toward people. I...
I went to my first luncheon with the AFL-CIO and they served these little steaks and potatoes, and I brought in a hamburger in a bag
This is another piston in the engine of our campaign as we continue to build momentum and endorsements ... I have always been very proud of the work the AFL-CIO does in standing up for the rights of every American to be treated fairly on the job. I am honored to have their endorsement.
From my first involvement in politics, I have always tried to stand up for the little guy-the small business owner, the farmer, the construction worker and the real people who work in the steel mills-these are the people of the AFL-CIO and I am humbled and honored to receive their support in my race for...
The AFL-CIO wanted a day of action to highlight crumbling infrastructure
infiltrated the National Nurses United for the duration of their Occupy DC protest tour. As the footage reveals, NNU in association with the AFL-CIO sent over 1,000 nurses from across the country, public and private sector, all expenses paid (to Occupy sites).
