AFL-CIO

The largest union federation in America won't be backing Hillary Clinton for now.
The vice president of the AFL-CIO fled violence in Ethiopia and walked through a desert to come to America. "I don't think we can afford as a country to say no to these people," he says of the Syrians.
Despite Sanders' decades as a champion of labor, the big unions are gradually lining up behind the front-runner.
Somebody get some ointment for that burn.
The number of older workers killed in the workplace jumped 9 percent.
A proposal in Congress, backed by labor unions, would make it much riskier for employers to illegally retaliate against pro-union workers.
National Nurses United gets behind Clinton's top challenger. "He's about building a social movement for humanistic change," the union's director says.
Her hesitance on $15 may displease progressives -- but it will relieve businesses that are getting bowled over by minimum wage campaigns.
Seekers of the Democratic nomination -- and, uh, Mike Huckabee -- are trying to win over the AFL-CIO this week.