February 15, 2006 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by Steven Greenhouse appeared on the New York Times website on February 15.) NEW YORK — The national labor movement suffered a new split yesterday when two major construction unions — the laborers and the operating engineers — announced that...
February 15, 2006 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by Steven Greenhouse appeared on the New York Times website on February 15.) NEW YORK — The national labor movement suffered a new split yesterday when two major construction unions — the laborers and the operating engineers — announced that...
September 30, 2005 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Dan Geringer was posted on the Philadelphia News website on September 30.) PHILADELPHIA — Six months of a tense truce between SEPTA and the Transport Workers Union will end Sunday when 4,600 members, who have worked without a contract...
August 25, 2005 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Reuters circulated the following article on August 24.) CHICAGO — The leader of a breakaway faction that has split the AFL-CIO, the 50-year-old umbrella group at the heart of the U.S. labor movement, said on Wednesday his union will not mend ties with the...
August 23, 2005 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Reuters circulated the following article on August 23.) NEW YORK — Labor leaders plan to coordinate work stoppages at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. outside the United States, starting with a campaign to organize workers at its South Korean stores, the Wall Street...
August 23, 2005 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Reuters circulated the following article by Alonso Soto on August 22.) CHICAGO — The United States’ largest union federation is struggling to cope with last month’s revolt by 4.6 million members and is willing to mend fences with the dissenters, the...
August 11, 2005 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, Teamsters
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on August 10.) WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO President John Sweeney proposed Wednesday allowing affiliates of several breakaway national unions to continue working with the labor federation locally. After the...
August 11, 2005 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following article on August 10.) WASHINGTON — The nation’s two largest teachers’ unions joined a boycott against Wal-Mart Stores yesterday, using the busy back-to-school shopping season to protest the retailer’s...
August 1, 2005 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article by Steven Greenhouse was posted on the New York Times website on July 30.) CHICAGO — Even as he was leading the revolt this week that has divided the labor movement into warring camps, Andrew L. Stern was wasting no time in trying to...
July 28, 2005 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on July 27.) CHICAGO — John J. Sweeney was re-elected President of the AFL-CIO — along with Richard Trumka as Secretary-Treasurer and Linda Chavez-Thompson as Executive Vice President — at the AFL-CIO...
