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The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest federation of labor unions, spent $420,000 in the third quarter to lobby the federal government, according  

The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest federation of labor unions, spent $420,000 in the third quarter to lobby the federal government, according to a recent disclosure report.  

The AFL-CIO is launching a major effort over the next three weeks to help Democrat Jim Martin best Sen. Saxby Chambliss in the GA Senate run-off. The group will drop a new mailer to 81K union voters and begin a "wide-scale" ground campaign. Last week, the AFL-CIO moved field staff from DC and...  

Port Authority and transit union officials are to be in Washington, D.C., tomorrow for a third straight day of highly unusual meetings called by the International AFL-CIO.  

Ellen Moran, executive director of EMILY’s List, was named White House communications director by President-elect Obama on Saturday. Moran, a well-known grassroots organizer, has also managed statewide Democratic campaigns and managed the Wal-Mart corporate accountability campaign for the AFL-CIO...  

Hotline On Call brings our attention to the latest group to jump in Georgia's U.S. Senate race. . . . . .the AFL-CIO. The AFL-CIO is launching a major effort over the next three weeks to help Democrat Jim Martin best Sen. Saxby Chambliss in the GA Senate run-off. The group will drop a new...  

The legislative director of the AFL-CIO said he is certain that organized labor's top priority -- a law that would make it much easier for unions to organize businesses both large and small -- will pass Congress and be signed by President-elect Barack Obama.  

The HIT has remained disciplined throughout this period and will continue to be guided by its philosophy of prudent, socially responsible investing. ...  

The AFL-CIO, which helped prove labor's organizing muscle with its formidable ground game in the battleground states, is now ramping up big time in the high-stakes Georgia runoff, putting in place an operation that it bills as the largest effort the federation has ever taken for what is...  

  My art work is included in an awesome show currently on display at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., from now through May 31, 2009. The show is titled, "Chicana Art and Experience: Mujeres con Garbo," andincludes more than 30 prints, posters, paintings and photographs by some of...  

Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William George today is urging both the Congress and President Bush to take emergency steps to protect workers from the deepening economic crisis sweeping the nation as well as immediate measures to create jobs and help fight the recession. "Now is the time...  

Bill Clinton was the first major Democratic figure to step into the Georgia runoff, but he won't be the last. His Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, has joined the fray on behalf of Orange to Blue Democrat Jim Martin: Jim Martin, the Democratic candidate in the contentious...  

Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William M. George expressed the sympathies and condolences of Organized Labor to the family of Lt.  

The new Obama administration and the new Congress must urgently address the nation's growing financial crisis and long-term structural economic decline with a wide range of actions, including an immediate and ...  

Surprisingly the media, local and international did not report the role of the American Federation of Labour and the Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO) in the election of Democratic Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama as President-elect of the United States of America.