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AARP, AFL-CIO Boost House Health Plan That Taxes Rich, Not Middle Class

Art Levine | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: So-Called Cadillac Plans, Health Care Reform, House Health Reform Bill, Harry Reid, Aarp, Afl-Cio, President Obama, Senate Finance Committee, Maggie Mahar, Taxing the Rich, Politics News
Art Levine

The centrist lobbying powerhouse for the elderly, the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP), is scheduled to endorse the House health care bill despite its possibly flawed public option.

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Geithner's New Plan: Keep Backing Risky Investments, Paying Banks NOT to Lend

Art Levine | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Afl-Cio, Obama, Geithner, Too Big to Fail, Rihard Trumka, Financial Reform, Business News
Art Levine

Is Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner the new champion of real financial reform, fighting to rein in Wall Street and the big banks?

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

Art Levine | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: So-Called Cadillac Plans, Harry Reid Senate, Health-Care Reform, Afl-Cio, Public Option, Trumka, Politics News
Art Levine

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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Showdown In Chicago: Sheila Bair Speaks To Protesters, Backs Consumer Protection Agency (VIDEO)

Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Protests, Fdic, Showdown in Chicago, Aba, Seiu, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Afl-Cio, National People's Action, Slideshow, Sheila Bair, American Bankers Association, Business News

ORIGINAL POST (Scroll down for a slideshow of today's protests): Before she appeared at the American Bankers Association annual convention today, Fe...

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"Showdown In Chicago": Protesters Crash Bankers Convention, (VIDEO, IMAGES)

Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Protests, ABA Conference, Showdown in Chicago, Aba, Seiu, Afl-Cio, Slideshow, American Bankers Association, Business News

UPDATED 10/26 6:06 Alex Parker attended the event on behalf of the Huffington Post and collected this video. Parker took shots various shots of ...

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Showdown in Chicago

Richard Trumka | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: American Bankers Association, CEO Pay, Chicago, Lobbyists, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Federal Reserve, Afl-Cio, Goldman Sachs, Labor, Unemployment, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Ceos, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Union Blogs, Bonuses, Unions, Inequality, Bankers, Joblessness, Recession, Labor Unions, Economic Recovery, Business News
Richard Trumka

We're gathering outside the American Bankers Association meeting to demand reform that will allow us to rebuild our communities, our lives and the real economy. We've got a lot to rebuild.

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Maybe Conservatism is Dead?

Stewart Acuff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stewart Acuff, Labor Movement, Afl-Cio, President Obama, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

The leaders of the Republican Party and the ideologues of conservatism have no answers for any of the problems that our country and our people are trying to deal with.

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Money Spent On Perks, Fringe Benefits Rose At Bailed Out Banks Last Year

Washington Post | Tomoeh Murakami Tse | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Benefits, Bank of America, Afl-Cio, Perks, Obama, Bofa, Gmac, Fringe Benefits, Corporate Jet, Ralph Babb, Tax Money, Wall Street, Bailout, Ken Lewis, Rescued Banks, Banks, Taxpayer Money, Chauffeur, Cit Group, Kenneth Feinberg, Bailed Out Banks, Business News

Even as the nation's biggest financial firms were struggling and the federal government was spending hundreds of billions of dollars to save many of t...

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NLRB Still Broken: After Nearly 20 Year Battle, Workers Die Before $12 Million Settlement Reached

Art Levine | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Employee Fre Choice Act, Stella D'Oro, Labor Law, Afl-Cio, Obama, Nlrb, Flour Daniel, Politics News
Art Levine

Even under President Obama, the gridlocked National Labor Relations Board is still broken in responding to anti-union abuses.

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The Chamber of Commerce's Jobs Deception Campaign

Richard Trumka | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Labor, Wall Street, Lending, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Afl-Cio, Chamber of Commerce, Capitalism, Taxpayers, Unions, Free Enterprise, Richard Trumka, Business News
Richard Trumka

Unions are popularly known as "the folks who brought you the weekend." In contrast, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has the distinction of trying to take away a long and ugly list of benefits.

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Senate Health Bill Opposed By Unions, Full-Page Paper Ad Planned

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Health Bill, AFL-CIO Health Care, Labor Unions Health Reform, Senate Health Vote, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Unions Health Bill Opposition, Senate Health Bill, Afl-Cio, Health Bill, Labor Unions Public Option, Health Bill Opposition, Health Care Public Option, Politics News

WASHINGTON — About 30 unions will run a full-page ad in newspapers Wednesday announcing their opposition to the Senate Finance Committee's healt...

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Cadillac Tax: Congress Is Split On Reform Effort To Tax Costly Health Care Plans

New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, White House, Cadillac Tax, Senate Finance Committee, House, Charles Rangel, Cbo, Afl-Cio, Obama, Reform, Democrats, Health Care Bill, Health Care Tax, Pelosi, Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, Public Option, Baucus Bill, Health Care Reform, Tax, Republicans, Health Care, Senate, Politics News

A proposed tax on high-cost, or "Cadillac," health insurance plans has touched off a fierce clash between the Senate and the House as they wrestle ove...

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Unions Need to Sever All Ties with Anti-Climate Bill Groups

Brendan Smith | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Labor, Green Jobs, Waxman-Markey, Green News, Afl-Cio, Environment, Climate Change, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Global Warming Deniers, Labor Unions, Boxer-Kerry, Afl-Cio Efca, Climate Bill, Energy Citizen's Alliance, Unions and Climate Change, Green News
Brendan Smith

Nike and utility giant, Pacific Gas & Electric, have publicly resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate protection policies. It's time for labor unions to follow suit.

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Generation

Laura Chapin | Posted 09.28.2009 | Denver

Read More: Unemployment, Wages, Lost-Decade-for-Jobs, Afl-Cio, Jobs, University of Colorado, College Graduates, Denver, Denver News
Laura Chapin

Why the 'lost decade' of young workers may fare worse than their parents.

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Union Leader Says Lobbying Efforts Are Raising Insurance Premiums

HuffingtonPost | Jenna Staul | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Afl-Cio, Health Care Reform, Lobbyblog, Business News

The president of the AFL-CIO is asking state insurance regulators to investigate if health insurance industry lobbying is raising the price of insuran...

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An AFL-CIO as Diverse as Workers

Fred Redmond | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Richard L. Trumka, International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, A. Philip Randolph, George Meany, Liz Schuler, Afl-Cio, Pullman Company, Arlene Holt Baker, John J. Sweeney, Business News
Fred Redmond

Unions cannot expect women, minority, gay, physically challenged and young members to step up and participate in union activities if union leadership opportunities are closed to them.

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Can AFL-CIO's Trumka Jump-Start Progressives, Health Reform and Beat 'Tea Baggers'?

Art Levine | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Afl-Cio, Tea Party. Tea Baggers, Obama, Health Care Health Reform, Public Option, Richard Trumka, Business News
Art Levine

The selection Wednesday of Richard Trumka as president of the AFL-CIO could add a harder progressive edge to the tough drives for health care and economic reform facing progressives and the administration.

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Obama Plans to Reform Economy, Not Just Health Insurance

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business

Read More: LTV Steel, Teabaggers, President Barack Obama, Middle Class, Jones & Laughlin Steel, Usw, United Steelworkers, Afl-Cio, Kaiser Family Foundation, U.S. Supreme Court, National Labor Relations Act, Health Insurance, Insurance Reform, Republicans, Steve Skvara, Health Care, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

The teabaggers are apoplectic because this isn't just about health care. This is about the values of a government.

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From Toronto to Pittsburgh to Jay Leno, Capitalism Marches On...

Michael Moore | Posted 09.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Labor, Class Warfare, Venice Film Festival, Jay Leno, Michael Moore, Toronto Film Festival, Afl-Cio, Universal Health Care, Capitalism: A Love Story, Single Payer, Capitalism, Labor Unions, Movies, Pittsburgh, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News
Michael Moore

My crew and I had one thought in mind while we were filming Capitalism: What if the powers-that-be refuse to give us funding for the next movie after they see what we've put in this one?

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President Obama Ties Reform To Rebuilding Middle Class

POLITICO | Carol E. Lee | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Collar, General Motors, Public Option, Middle Class, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Afl-Cio, Richard Trumka, Politics News

PITTSBURGH -- President Barack Obama delivered his most strongly worded speech in defense of organized labor since taking office - tying health care r...

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Specter Tells AFL-CIO He Backs Employees' Choice

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Arlen Specter, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Joe Sestak, President Obama, Politics News

PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter took another step in his political transformation on Tuesday, telling hundreds of labor activists t...

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New Reason for Devotion to Employee Free Choice Act

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: United Steel Workers Union, Union Card Checks, Employee Free Choice Act, Card Check, Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice, Efca, United Steelworkers, Leo Gerard, Unions, Labor Unions, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

For Ted Kennedy, for Crystal Lee Sutton, for us all, America ought to have the Employee Free Choice Act.

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Michael Moore's New Film Rocks AFL-CIO

Randy Shaw | Posted 09.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Afl-Cio, Rose Ann DeMoro, Single Payer, Capitalism, Michael Moore, Marcy Kaptur, National Nurses Organizing Committee, Capitalism: A Love Story, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News
Randy Shaw

This is not only Moore's best film, but it is the most politically incendiary film put on the American screen in memory.

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AFL-CIO Convention: Solidarity with Van Jones?

Brendan Smith | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Labor, Green Jobs Czar, Green Jobs, Afl-Cio, Environment, Green Politics, AFL-CIO Obama, Van Jones, Climate Change, Obama AFL-CIO, Obama-Labor-Unions, Green News
Brendan Smith

f labor wants to promote green jobs, labor should embrace Van Jones -- publicly, loudly, and fast -- at the AFL-CIO Convention.

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Labor Day Investing

Amy B. Dean | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stimulus Bill, Barack Obama, Labor Day, Ceos, Afl-Cio, Pensions, Working Families, American Labor Movement, Stimulus Plan, Unions, Health Care, Politics News
Amy B. Dean

Labor Day is a reminder of what workers can achieve when they organize: improved working conditions, fairness in the work place, holiday and vacation pay, health care and pensions.

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