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Steelworkers prevail in contentious negotiations

September 11, 2012 By Paul S. Kaczocha

"Our members' unwavering solidarity throughout the bargaining process in the face of management's high-risk scare tactics and demands for major cutbacks has been rewarded."

MO AFL-CIO Convention: Focus on elections and ballot initiatives

September 11, 2012 By Tony Pecinovsky

"There couldn't be a clearer choice. The up-coming November elections are about two very different and distinct paths for our country."

DNC union delegates lobby colleagues for workers rights

September 6, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Hundreds of union members, delegates to the Democratic National Convention, fanned out among their colleagues bearing little orange cards, talking about union rights.

Text of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka’s speech to the DNC

September 6, 2012 By Richard Trumka

Besides Trumka, Auto Workers President Bob King and Service Employees President Mary Kay Henry also addressed the convention.

UAW’s King praises Obama’s ‘moral courage’ in auto firm rescue

September 6, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

In a Sept. 5 prime time speech to the Democratic National Convention, King said Obama went against popular sentiment when he constructed the rescue plan for the two firms.