AFL-CIO union movement in the United States, which might push for trade sanctions if it considered that labour rights were being violated in Venezuela.
AFL-CIO union federation, really does have this aim in mind.
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.
And the AFL-CIO, the US trade union federation which is opposing the deal, said that the proposed enforcement mechanisms did not go far enough.
Thea Lee, of the AFL-CIO, the US trade union federation, told the BBC that if unions get nothing at Doha, it will strengthen their case in a closely divided Congress.
Today, the American labour movement is dominated by the AFL-CIO, the successor to the union of unions Gompers founded in 1886.
CIO, America's main union federation, was outraged at the use of Taft-Hartley.
Mr. Fletcher formerly served as education director for the AFL-CIO and later as assistant to that union's president.
The divisions in America's labour movement burst into the open last month, when several large unions representing over a third of its membership withdrew from the AFL-CIO, America's trade-union federation.
AFL-CIO, America's biggest trade-union group, has weakened its opposition to the China bill.
AFL-CIO, America's largest trade-union group, that, if elected president in November, he would tack labour and environmental clauses on to future trade deals.
Working with Malcolm in ACT are former AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal, Service Employees Union President Andy Stern and the Sierra Club's executive director, Carl Pope.
He first sued the union, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO, as his own attorney and the case was dismissed.
As a result, it only seems rational that national union organizations, such as the AFL-CIO, SEIU and others, would follow the example of the International Association of Firefighters and swear off political contributions to federal-level politicos in favor of spending their money in support of state and local candidates.
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Stern broke SEIU off from the AFL-CIO two years ago and has come to epitomize the contemporary union boss.
It left the ailing AFL-CIO in 2004, and unlike many unions (and the union movement in general), it is growing.
The AFL-CIO says its campaign will include 70 million phone calls to union households in key presidential and congressional battleground areas, as well as 25 million mail pieces.
But many labor experts back the AFL-CIO stance, agreeing that while legalizing undocumented workers may bolster the union ranks, being too lax in enforcing laws will just bring more illegals in on their heels who are willing to work on the cheap.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted the public-sector union ahead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and a flock of new Republican groups in campaign spending.
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