Labor
3 million volunteers, unionists included
August 8, 2008CHICAGO (PAI)--Imagine mobilizing one of every 100 Americans, a population equal to that of the entire city of Chicago, and putting them out on the campaign trail. That’s what Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeks to do....
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Council elects three replacement members
August 8, 2008CHICAGO (PAI)--The AFL-CIO Executive Council elected three new members on August 5, slightly expanding its female membership while seeing the number of African-Americans decline by one. Named to the council were new American Federation of Teachers...
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Fed already moving vs. shenanigans at polls
August 8, 2008CHICAGO (PAI)--Remember Florida’s hanging chads in 2000? Or the long lines due to the lack of voting machines in Columbus, Ohio in 2004? The nation’s unions do. Led by AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker,...
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Michigan labor rejects McCain’s energy policy, demands alternatives
August 8, 2008Monroe County, Mich. – I don't usually try to see how 'close' I can get to a nuclear power plant but whenever John McCain steps foot in Michigan, labor has vowed to be there to 'greet'...
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AFL-CIO goal: filibuster-proof senate majority
August 7, 2008CHICAGO (PAI)--The AFL-CIO has set a political goal, second only to helping presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama win the White House, of achieving a filibuster-proof 60-vote pro-worker majority in this year’s elections. But to do so...
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