One fast-growing grassroots organisation is Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which links union members and non-union workers to campaign for better jobs, higher standards in education and, above all, health-care reform. (Any progress on this front under the Obama administration will be claimed as a success by both AFL-CIO and the breakaway coalition led by Mr Stern.) Moreover, grassroots union activism in several swing states helped Mr Obama to victory.
Has the President done any outreach to labor, to Trumka at AFL-CIO on this?
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In 1894, George Meany, the first president of the AFL-CIO, was born in New York City.
"Let the millionaires fend for themselves for a change, " said AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka before Thanksgiving.
The International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO, posted news of the ratification on its website late Tuesday.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters Wednesday there were "mixed feelings" about Obama's involvement.
Having succeeded in Maryland, the AFL-CIO is gearing up for similar efforts in other states.
Rather than ACORN arguing for sub-prime mortgages, nurses and the AFL-CIO are pushing a FTT.
Last year the AFL-CIO, America's labour federation, split as members anguished over its flagging power.
Two years ago the AFL-CIO's ads failed to return the House to Democratic control.
This ad is the third AFL-CIO spot targeting Republicans on the issue of Medicare.
The 30-million-member strong AFL-CIO wrote to 42 fund managers asking them to boycott the IPO.
Center Cheers AFL-CIO Opposition to Soviet Membership in the EBRD, 11 April 1990, No. 90-P34.
The AFL-CIO is dead set against any easing of immigration laws, since corporations grab for cheap labor.
The AFL-CIO never gave in to the temptation to consort with groups that were fronts for collaborators.
According to the AFL-CIO's understanding of the agreement, the "W" visa program would begin April 1, 2015.
In Philadelphia, it was his turn to make a pitch at the convention of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO.
Why would other Republicans be willing to bend so much more than Mr. Paul toward the AFL-CIO?
While the Teamsters still has not issued an endorsement, the AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers previously endorsed Gore.
Higgins also followed Quinn's lead by getting support of labor, including endorsements from the New York AFL-CIO.
As the head of the AFL-CIO, he was responsible for dozens of unions with millions of working families.
The AFL-CIO is backing the Democratic candidate who is showing up in the latest polls in single digits.
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He said AMFA's 1998 decision to break off from the International Association of Machinists--part of the AFL-CIO--clearly backfired.
"We don't think the big sponsors of UFC are good citizens, " said Lori Pelletier, secretary-treasurer of Connecticut AFL-CIO.
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Fidelity was Tyco's number two shareholder earlier this year while earning millions running its 401(k), the AFL-CIO found.
The AFL-CIO promised to be very active in supporting Poshard's candidacy, but Ryan was a well-established political figure.
Mr. Fletcher formerly served as education director for the AFL-CIO and later as assistant to that union's president.
Rees said the AFL-CIO was "actively monitoring" Chinese state companies that plan to raise money in U.S. markets.
In 1986, the last time that Congress passed meaningful immigration reform, the AFL-CIO fought the effort tooth and nail.
In 2009, both the AFL-CIO and the SEIU jointly released guidelines on an immigration reform package they would support.
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