LOS ANGELES —Organized labor, with its community allies, will “play heavily” in state gubernatorial and legislative races next year, its top two political operatives say. Briefing reporters Sept. 9 during the AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles, fed Political Committee Chair Lee Saunders and Political Director Michael Podhorzer explained that’s because workers found themselves under heavy attack since the 2010 by […]
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Labor Sec. Perez Rouses AFL-CIO with Pro-Worker Stemwinder
New Labor Secretary Tom Perez virtually threw away his script at the AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles, with a stemwinding speech pledging worker protections, promising labor and the administration would do it together and with several blasts at corporate greed thrown in for good measure.
AFL-CIO Makes it Official: Labor Movement Opens Itself to Non-Union Workers, Too
LOS ANGELES—The labor movement has made official what federation officers forecast for months: It’s opening itself to non-union workers, too. In resolutions and speeches at the AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles, the federation’s delegates decided organized labor would represent – and speak for – not just the organized workers in union locals, but the unorganized on the streets, in workers’ […]
Pres. Diann Woodard Presents at AFL-CIO Convention, Pledging a Commitment to Equality in Pay and Opportunity for Women
On Sunday, September 8 at the opening of the AFL-CIO’s quadrennial convention in Los Angeles, President Diann Woodard Introduced Resolution 18, making the following statement: “Women may hold up half the sky, as the resolution states. But we don’t have half the pie. And that’s a fact despite more than a century of struggle and significant gains. Women still only […]
Trumka Strongly Defends Including Outside Groups Into Labor Movement
LOS ANGELES —AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is strongly defending his plans to include outside groups – environmentalists, civil rights groups, women’s rights advocates, immigrants’ groups and more – in the labor movement, despite criticism from many unions. A group of unions, led by the Building Trades, extremely upset by Trumka’s plans to bring other progressive groups into the labor movement, […]