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Combatting HIV/AIDS in Africa: Soccer Instead of Unsafe Sex

Bernard Pollack | Posted 12.18.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, Hiv, Union, US Aid, Afl Cio, Solidarity Center, Aids, Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union, Family Health International, Atgwu, World News
Bernard Pollack

Boredom -- and drinking -- often led to unsafe sex with prostitutes at the truck stops along the highway. As a result, truck drivers have one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Africa.

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With A Third of Workers at Risk of Job Losses, Progressives Launch New Drive For More Aid (VIDEO)

Art Levine | Posted 12.18.2009 | Business

Read More: House of Representatives, Afl-Cio, Obama, Joblessness, Unemployment, Nancy Pelosi, Seiu, Business News
Art Levine

It doesn't seem that many members of Congress fully understand yet the havoc that's been let loose in the land because of widespread unemployment. Meanwhile, posturing over ideology continues.

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Wall Street Makes Merry With Other People's Money

Dan Collins | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Tarp, Executive Pay, Wells Fargo, Afl-Cio, Aig, Pay Czar, Pay Czar Ken Feinberg, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Commercial Banks, Goldman Sachs Ceo Lloyd Blankfein, Ken Feinberg, Wall Street Bonuses, Executive Compensation, Citigroup, New York News
Dan Collins

There's a good deal of jolliness on Wall Street this holiday season, thanks to the billions of dollars in bonuses that will be stuffed into the stockings of your favorite bankers. It's safe to assume the final tally will be very big.

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Sam Stein

Labor Holds Emergency Meetings To Discuss Senate Bill, May Formally Oppose

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Labor Leaders, Dennis Rivera, Seiu, Health Care Reform, Afl-Cio, AFL-CIO Health Care, Seiu Oppose Health Care, Labor Health Care, Politics News

Two of the country's largest labor groups, the SEIU and the AFL-CIO, are each holding emergency executive meetings today to discuss whether they shoul...

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Sam Stein

AFL-CIO Makes Biggest Push Yet To Kill Portions Of Senate Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, AFL-CIO Health Care, Afl Cio, Senate Bill Public Option, Afl Cio Health Care Lobby, Senate Bill Afl-Cio, Politics News

As the debate over health care reform enters its final weeks, the AFL-CIO is launching its largest lobbying effort to date, dispatching 175 labor lead...

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Women to Be Majority in Labor Union Movement, So Here's the Job Ahead

Amy B. Dean | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Change to Win, Afl-Cio, Women in the Workplace, Women's Rights, H1n1, Labor Unions, Seiu, Books News
Amy B. Dean

A study released last week put the spotlight on a workplace demographic shift that is occurring: women are expected to become a majority of labor union workers within the next decade.

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The University of Illinois Strike, Wrapped Up

Rich Potter | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Afl-Cio, University of Illinois, Illinois Graduate Employees' Organization, University of Illinois Strike, Strike, Geo, Teaching Assistants, Chicago News
Rich Potter

The Graduate Employees' Organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has successfully ended a two-day strike against the university administration.

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Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Keith Bradsher, Cap and Trade, Russ Choma, President Obama, Washington D.C., Renewable Energy, Usw, Blue Green Alliance, Obama, Congress, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, Investigative Reporting Workshop, Iberdrola, China, Stimulus, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Unemployment, Fossil Fuels, Buy American, Windmills, New York Times, Republicans, Windmill Farm, Green Energy, Green News
Leo W. Gerard

Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.

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The Change We Deserve

Edwin D. Hill | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: MIchael Barone, Bob Mcdonnell, 2009 Election, Doug Hoffman, ED Hill, Ibew, Employee Free Choice Act, Bill Owens, Afl-Cio, Club for Growth, Ny-23, Congress, Conservative Party, Unions, Dede Scozzafava, Politics News
Edwin D. Hill

It didn't take long for the anti-worker far right to try to spin the results of the 2009 elections as a mandate for their pro-corporate agenda.

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Pelosi Shifts Focus To Unemployment After Push For Health Care Bill

The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Gop, Recovery, Nancy Pelosi. Jobs, Unemployment Extention, House, Unemployment Benefits, Economy, Afl-Cio, Democrats, Stimulus, Unemployment Rate, Trumka, Pelosi, Unemployment, Kuttner, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Richard Trumka, Ben Cardin, Senate, Republicans, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

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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Financial Industry Gives 250% More to Sway Key Legislators, Public Citizen Reveals at Goldman Sachs Protest

Art Levine | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Andy Stern, Financial Crisis, Afl-Cio, Goldmansachs, Barack Obama, Seiu, Financial Reform, Politics News
Art Levine

Fury is mounting over Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein's comment that's he's just a banker "doing God's work" and the ongoing risk that "too big to fail" firms like Goldman Sachs pose to the economy.

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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 12.02.2009 | 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 11.28.2009 | 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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