July 9, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on July 8.) CHICAGO — Two national labor unions representing hospitality and textile workers agreed to merge Thursday, creating an organization with more than 800,000 active workers and retirees. About 1,500...
July 7, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on July 6.) New members reported in this week’s WIP: 840 New members reported in WIP year-to-date: 70,452 DISABILITY WORKERS WIN VOICE–At ATC/Vancom, nearly 300 para-transit drivers, dispatchers, lift attendants and...
July 6, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The National Labor College issued the following news release on July 1.) SILVER SPRING, Md. — John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO and Chair of the National Labor College’s Board of Trustees, and Dr. Susan J. Schurman, President of the College, presented...
June 22, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on June 21.) New members reported in this week’s WIP: 1,516 New members reported in WIP, year to date: 68,092 SECURITY WITH SEIU—After a long-term organizing campaign, nearly 1,200 security guards at four companies in...
June 17, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on June 17.) BOSTON — U.S. workers have fewer legal rights to time off for family matters than workers in most other countries, and rank near the bottom in pregnancy and sick leave, a Harvard School of Public...
June 15, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on June 14.) New members reported in this week’s WIP: 2,155 New members reported in WIP, year to date: 66,576 MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH—A total of 1,110 workers formed unions in recent weeks with SEIU. In Spokane, Wash., the...
June 14, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Gregory Cancelada and Jack Naudi was posted on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on June 14.) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Calls for “Buy Union-Made” and “Buy American” might appear nostalgic in a day when X-rays of...
June 11, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Knight Ridder circulated the following story by Thomas Ginsber on June 10.) PHILADELPHIA — Minutes before Ronald Reagan was shot in an attempted assassination in 1981, hundreds of union leaders did something few might believe today. They gave Reagan raucous...
June 10, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Sarah Hollander was posted on the Cleveland Plain Dealer website on June 10.) CLEVELAND — For everyone discouraged by the thinning list of products made in America- let alone made in America by a union member- prepare to mark your...
June 8, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO distributed the following on June 7.) New members reported in this week’s WIP: 2,492 New members reported in WIP, year to date: 64,421 WEST COAST VICTORIES—A total of 2,344 health care and other workers at four West Coast hospitals voted recently to...
