AFL-CIO forum
Get ready for the AFL-CIO forum. Democratic presidential candidates are preparing statements and presentations for the AFL-CIO forum -- let's hope this discussion focuses on real issues!
This week, the grassroots movement for health care reform centered on working family roundtables where dozens of participants in key states testified about the need to fix the nation's broken health care system. ...
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- AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | At Roundtables, Union Members Call for Health ... (blogsearch.google.com)
- AFL-CIO Outraged at Murder of Colombian Trade Unionist (blog.aflcio.org)
From NBC's Mark MurrayThe AFL-CIO says it's airing a new TV ad -- to begin on Sunday in the D.C. media market, and then later in key states -- that stresses the labor group's two priorities on health care: 1) pass reform, and 2) don't pay for it by taxing health benefits.
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- More than 1,000 Workers Win Voice with AFL-CIO Unions (blog.aflcio.org)
Three busloads of people headed straight from the rally to Los Angeles, where the UC Regents were set to meet the next day. They joined some 2000 students and unionists from around the state to denounce the Regents' plan to raise student fees another 32 percent. .... Tanya Smith, president of UPTE's Berkeley local says “the problem isn't money—it's priorities.” At the same meeting when the Regents raised student fees, they handed out big...
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- AFL-CIO Wants $400-$500 Billion For Job Creation (motherjones.com)
- AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Vote Now for POP Art Winner (blogsearch.google.com)
Harley Shaiken, A UC Labor Economist who focuses on the global auto industry spoke at a California AFL-CIO conference on the economic crisis in Sacramento on 12/2/2009
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The solution to California's unprecedented economic crisis can be summed up in three words: jobs, jobs, jobs. That was the message this week in Sacramento as the California Labor Federation brought together state and national economic ...
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- AFL-CIO may help lift Chicago Spire (marketplace.publicradio.org)
- AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | AFT, Save the Children Valentine Card Contest ... (blogsearch.google.com)
- AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | In Kenya, Workers in Tea and Flower Industries ... (blogsearch.google.com)
The “10-to-4 Percent Unemployment Jobs Creation Plan” (the “10-to-4 Plan”) provides 17 components to move us from 10 % unemployment to full employment (4 %). Only the frictional unemployed and the unemployable are jobless at the 4 ...
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- AFL-CIO Debuts Job Creation Program (feedproxy.google.com)
- AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Trumka to Launch Jobs Initiative Tomorrow (blogsearch.google.com)
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From the AFL-CIO Blog--Trumka on MSNBC: Jobs Summit a Good Step:
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said tonight on MSNBC’s...
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- Blog for Iowa :: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Jobs Crisis—Fix ... (blogsearch.google.com)
- Minnesota AFL-CIO calls for comprehensive jobs plan (workdayminnesota.org)


