March 1, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its national convention expressing its full support of the National Aviation Capacity Expansion Act, the federal legislation that will improve the nation’s air transportation...
February 27, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
NEW ORLEANS — As labor leaders gather here, they are grumbling that many of the issues that American workers care deeply about — issues like soaring health care costs and safeguarding Social Security — are largely absent from the nation’s...
February 26, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The AFL-CIO traditionally has asked member unions for voluntary contributions to pay for political campaign activities. Now a move is building in the federation to make assessments permanent and mandatory, according to a wire service report....
February 26, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
NEW ORLEANS — The Bush Administration’s FY 2003 budget submission “neglects major transportation needs, fails to offer serious assistance to the unemployed, and embraces misguided privatization schemes,” leaders of 34 transportation unions today...
February 26, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
NEW ORLEANS — At its winter Executive Committee meeting, leaders of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department (TTD) unanimously adopted a resolution pledging to stand together in “an aggressive and unified” response to thwart raids against their...
February 12, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following statement was issued by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, on the Bush Administration’s recent announcement that newly federalized airport security workers will not be granted whistle blower...
February 4, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following statement was issued today by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, on the conduct of Delta Airlines management in an election by its flight attendants to gain a voice on the job as members of...
January 23, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON — The following was released on January 22 by the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO: The Amtrak Reform Council (ARC) has “acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner and contrary to law,” eleven AFL-CIO rail unions representing the...
January 18, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON — Union membership remained steady in 2001, a stability that labor leaders praised as a victory during a year of hardship for American workers, a wire service reports. About 16.3 million people were union members last year, representing 13.5 percent...
January 18, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
NEW YORK — Eager to help New York City after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. yesterday announced a program in which unions would invest $750 million of their pension funds for housing and commercial development, according to the New York Times....
