AFL-CIO – Page 21 – People's World

As AFL-CIO convention opens, Trumka emphasizes need to battle income inequality

October 22, 2017 By John Wojcik

Income inequality and the wage gap are more than simply unfair, according to AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.

AFL-CIO delegates walk out to join Black Lives Matter protesters

October 22, 2017 By Chauncey K. Robinson

To keep BLM activists out, every door was chained shut on the orders of convention center management. So AFL-CIO delegates left their hall to join the protest.

After nine years, arbitrators bounce AFL-CIO complaint on Guatemala labor conditions

June 30, 2017 By PAI

“This decision drives home the fact that U.S. trade deals do not protect workers. In truth, this failure is by design.”

AFL-CIO Report: Santander bank exec looted Puerto Rico’s infrastructure fund

May 16, 2017 By Carolyn Bobb

Labor leaders call on Carlos M. Garcia to resign from the “Junta” or PROMESA Control Board.

Union presidents struggle with political strategies

March 14, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

“There has ‘to be a new paradigm’ or 2018 will be 2016 all over again.”