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BATON ROUGE, LA - MAY 14: Louisiana AFL-CIO President Louis Reine attends Laissez Louisiana Film Rouler at the Celtic Studios on May 14, 2013 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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The fact that House Republicans are unwilling to accept the bipartisan compromise crafted by the AFL-CIO and the Chamber shows they are still more wedded to extreme ideology than constructive legislating
should be factual in nature, whether it is done by the AFL-CIO or whoever is doing it.
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are hoping the much bigger and vastly influential national AFL-CIO steers clear of staking out an opinion on the nomination: The AFL-CIO has joined UNITE's Hyatt boycott, and national president Richard Trumka has walked the picket line -- but he's stayed aloof 5/20/13 from The Politico Read more »
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would mean American corporations could fire American workers in order to bring in new immigrant workers at lower wages." Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/300723-afl-cio-rallies-opposition-to-hatchs-h-1b-visa-amendments 5/20/13 from Democratic Underground Read more »
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The AFL-CIO's Embedded Reporters
Did you know that some of the reporters who have covered things like Act 10 and the Palermo's labor dispute are, themselves, union activists? Many news reporters are members of labor unions. But did you know that some of them are labor union leaders? In fa 5/20/13 from NewsRadio 620 WTMJ Read more »
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Labor unions form N.J. Super PAC
— The former spokeswoman for the state Democratic Committee is launching the New Jersey chapter of the AFL-CIO's left-leaning Super PAC, The Star-Ledger has learned. Alicia D'Alessandro said the paperwork will be filed today with the state Election Law Enforcement from NJ.com Read more »
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BlackRock: Giant of shareholders, an active investor
use its influence to greater effect and say it sides with management far too often. It received a failing grade from the AFL-CIO in a 2012 survey; BlackRock voted with the federation just twice in 32 shareholder votes on issues that the union sees as important from Economic Times Read more »
