March 29, 2012 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, March 26, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The AFL-CIO on Monday called for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to dismiss a campaign labor advisor linked to an ethics investigation at the National Labor Relations Board. Full story:...
March 16, 2012 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, War on Workers
(Source: Associated Press, March 14, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Labor unions, saying they can’t hope to compete with the new breed of conservative fundraising groups, plan to spend less money this year on specific candidates and political party organizations and more on...
July 27, 2011 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Source: Boston Globe, July 26, 2011) BOSTON — Massachusetts State Senator Steven A. Tolman, brother of BLET Vice President and National Legislative Representative John P. Tolman, is joining the race for president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. The election is slated...
June 23, 2011 | AFL-CIO, Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department press release, June 22, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), today testified before the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the House of...
May 27, 2011 | AFL-CIO, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on The Hill website on May 26, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans should stop comparing Amtrak to trains operated by the former Soviet Union because Russia is now building more railways than the United States, a labor union said Thursday....
May 27, 2011 | AFL-CIO, Amtrak, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department issued the following on May 26, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), testified today before the House Committee on Transportation and...
August 5, 2009 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by Jonathan Martin and Jeanne Cummings appeared at Politico.com on August 3, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Richard Trumka admits that unions were outmaneuvered on a key element of the Employee Free Choice Act — a bill making it easier for workers to...
June 8, 2009 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Holly Rosenkrantz on June 8, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — AFL-CIO President John Sweeney was briefing union leaders gathered in a conference room lined with portraits of the labor federation’s past leaders. He turned a...
November 6, 2008 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), offered the following statement in reaction to the historic election of Barack Obama as America ‘s 44th President. “Transportation workers joined millions...
August 14, 2008 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by Steven Greenhouse appeared on the New York Times website on August 14.) NEW YORK — The A.F.L.-C.I.O and three other pro-labor groups will urge the Federal Election Commission on Thursday to rule that Wal-Mart acted illegally by warning many...
