August 30, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One month ago I spoke before a crowd of working men and women on Wall Street, standing across from the New York Stock Exchange, and called for corporations to be accountable to the American people. In the crowd, laid-off Enron and Worldcom...
August 30, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Top AFL-CIO officers will travel across America this Labor Day weekend to kick off the labor movement’s fall election campaign, call for corporate accountability, and honor America’s every day working heroes. Under the banner of...
August 19, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
DETROIT — Former United Auto Workers President Stephen P. Yokich, a lifelong labor activist who led the union to some of its most lucrative contracts with Detroit’s Big Three automakers, died on Friday at age 66. According to a wire service, Yokich...
August 16, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
SEATTLE — The union representing more than 23,500 technical and professional employees at The Boeing Company said the announcement that the aerospace giant may lay off thousands more employees if the International Association of Machinists (IAM Local 751)...
August 14, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
It’s crucial that the forum President Bush is holding today in Waco, Texas, addresses the crisis facing America’s working families. Despite a much-touted but anemic “economic recovery,” working men and women increasingly are out of work, losing...
June 27, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Amtrak, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following statement was issued by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney regarding loan guarantees for Amtrak: We urge President Bush to step forward quickly with loan guarantees to prevent the collapse of Amtrak. And we insist that this be...
May 23, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
NEW YORK — Vowing to “ensure a strong and continuing political voice for America’s working families,” the General Board of the AFL-CIO today approved a proposal by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney to permanently fund union member education, voter registration,...
May 15, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON — The General Board of the AFL-CIO (on which all union presidents sit) will gather in New York on May 22 to consider a proposal by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney to permanently fund union member education, voter registration, and mobilization...
April 29, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, TTD
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following statement was issued by Sonny Hall, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), commemorating the April 28 Workers Memorial Day, honoring those who have lost their lives at work and renewing the fight for...
April 24, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In advance of Workers Memorial Day, April 28, the AFL-CIO will release a study Thursday, April 25 entitled “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect; a National and State-by-State Profile of Worker Safety and Health in the United States,” the...
