April 23, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The AFL-CIO filed suit in federal court Monday challenging the recently enacted campaign finance law that places new restrictions how money is raised and spent in federal elections, reports a wire service. The labor federation joins other...
April 19, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Union members — including firefighters, postal workers, nurses, city workers, janitors, teachers, factory workers, telephone operators and others — will join with members of their communities for Workers Memorial Day to give...
April 12, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO each built their headquarters within a few blocks of the White House, but the nation’s largest business lobby and its biggest union seemed to work miles apart politically, according to a wire...
April 5, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
MINNEAPOLIS — Driving a Ford truck? Union workers built it. Tooling about on a Harley Davidson motorcycle? Union labor there, too. That bowl of Froot Loops you ate this morning? Union made. The workers who made those products and many more will be out in force...
April 5, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
MINNEAPOLIS — Driving a Ford truck? Union workers built it. Tooling about on a Harley Davidson motorcycle? Union labor there, too. That bowl of Froot Loops you ate this morning? Union made. The workers who made those products and many more will be out in force...
March 8, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The AFL-CIO is profoundly disappointed that the House leadership has failed to offer an economic stimulus proposal that would provide comprehensive relief to laid-off workers and fiscally-strapped states. The limited bill, which the House...
March 7, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Amtrak, Headlines
STATEMENT OF EDWARD WYTKIND, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TRANSPORTATION TRADES DEPARTMENT, AFL-CIO BEFORE THE HOUSE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE ON RAILROADS HEARING ON “AMTRAK STATUS: SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF AMTRAK AND THE AMTRAK REFORM AND...
March 7, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Amtrak, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Saying that Amtrak and its 25,000 workers must be “given a chance to excel,” transportation labor yesterday told Congress to fund Amtrak at no less than $1.2 billion for fiscal year 2003 and to enact Amtrak reauthorization...
March 5, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
NEW ORLEANS — The AFL-CIO pledged to fight for severance pay for former workers of fallen energy giant Enron and called for pension and bankruptcy reforms in the wake of its collapse, a wire service reports. “Enron used the bankruptcy court system to cut most of...
March 4, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Calling congressional inaction on behalf of working families “shameful” and “disgusting,” AFL-CIO president John Sweeney said the 13 million member union federation will drive a “working families economic...
