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Obama Urged To Pressure Colombia On Workers' Rights Following Murders

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 04.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, the leaders of the largest coalition of American labor unions sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to mainta...

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AFL-CIO Super PAC, Workers' Voice, Raises Almost Four Million Dollars

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.12.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A super PAC affiliated with the labor federation AFL-CIO will announce on Tuesday that it has raised $3.7 million. It currently has $3 m...

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WATCH: House Opposition To Trade Deals Intensifies Amid Continued Violence In Colombia

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Economy, Afl-Cio, Pelosi, Free Trade, Jobs, Obama, Labor Unions, Trumka, Deficit, Labor, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Trade, Brad Sherman, Fta, Mcconnell, Harry Reid, Trade Adjustment Assistance, Unions, Korea, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On August 4, Senate leaders announced a "breakthrough" in negotiations over three trade deals currently pending before Congress that now...

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Chamber, AFL-CIO Back Infrastructure Spending In Rare Joint Statement

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, often bitter foes in conflicts between business and labor, released a rare joint statement...

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Do the New NLRB Rules Really Help Workers Organize?

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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A series of rules have been proposed recently by the NLRB that improve the rights of workers on the job. The rule changes by the NLRB have been hailed by organized labor as great triumphs that will promote the right to organize.

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Bernie Filibusters Not Just on the Senate Floor, But On Picket Lines

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Democratic elected officials wish to remain power, they must use their offices the way Bernie Sanders does to secure a fair and free union election for all.

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What a Great Dog Named Murphy Taught Me About Life and Labor Journalism

Mike Elk | Posted 11.17.2011

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Writing about the labor movement has not been easy. At times it's been incredibly depressing. We have a president who seems fundamentally indifferent and at times openly attacks organized labor.

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UAW President: Critics of Korea Treaty Don't Represent Workers

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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UAW President Bob King has sparked outraged among progressives and the labor movement by endorsing the Korea Free Trade Agreement. Here's what he told me about it.

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Is the Federal Pay Freeze Obama's PATCO?

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Efca, Obama Pay Freeze, Borosage, Afge, Federal Workers, Trumka, Patco, Ue, Politics News

The Obama administration, looking to bolster its deficit-cutting credentials and show its desire to take on what some label a "special interest" -- organized labor -- just announced a two-year freeze on the wages of all federal workers.

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Weekly Audit: Curbing the Deficit, Cat Food, and You

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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Weekly Audit: Curbing the Deficit, Cat Food, and Youby Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The deficit commission released its much anticipat...

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Look to Rhode Island for How to Target Anti-Labor Democrats

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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The state's labor movement did something about unfriendly Dems WASHINGTON, D.C.--Yesterday, during a UE union rally here outside Morgan Stanley's off...

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Was the Mott's Strike "Victory" Really a Victory?

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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By threatening massive wage cuts, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group was able to force the union to accept small benefit concessions and a two-tier employee system that saves Dr. Pepper Snapple money.

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Despite New Hailed Organizing Rules, Airline Workers Still Face Tilted Playing Field

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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US Airways is determined not to see its Piedmont Airlines workers unionized. Baggage handlers at non-unionized work subsidiaries of US Airways Express, like Piedmont, make half of what their unionized counterparts.

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Sarah Palin Tries To Convert Union Members: Your Bosses 'Have Acted Like Thugs'

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sarah Palin continued a bristly squabble with AFL-CIO President Richard Thursday, defending her record with unions, bashing union bosses who she said ...

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Obama Administration Uses Lobbyist Memo to Say Outsourcing Creates Jobs

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just before Commerce Secretary Gary Locke went on a high-profile trip to China with 24 business executives to advocate for making it easier to send ...

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AFL-CIO's Trumka Reminds Dems: No "Reform for Reform's Sake" on Health Care

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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On November 5, the AFL-CIO will promote a labor-wide "Day of Action," to lobby Congress through organizing and leafleting in the workplace.

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Trumka: Employee Free Choice Act Will Pass In Early 2010

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka predicted on Monday that the Employee Free Choice Act -- the provision that would give workers easier avenues to unio...

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Pelosi Shifts Focus To Unemployment After Push For Health Care Bill

The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 05.25.2011

House Democratic leaders, worried they've appeared unresponsive to rising unemployment because they were absorbed by healthcare, are aiming for a legi...

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Why President Obama's 'Taurus Tax' Is the Wrong Medicine

Drew Westen | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama promised that there would be no middle class tax hikes on his watch. Apparently he's changed his mind.

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Dems, Unions, Allies Push Back For Reform in Ads, Town Halls, Attacks on Blue Dogs (VIDEO)

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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The story that isn't being told in cable media's over-reaction to the GOP mobs is that of reasonable Americans coming out to understand more about health care reform and promote change

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Richard Trumka: Momentum Grows For New AFL-CIO President Despite No Formal Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite not having formally declared his candidacy for the powerful post of president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka's campaign seems to be gaining st...

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