afl cio News

afl cio News From AOL News

Wisconsin Governor Proposes Deep Cuts for Schools

MADISON, Wis. -- Gov. Scott Walker is plowing ahead with his full plan for balancing Wisconsin's budget, proposing massive cuts to public schools even as he faces a stalemate over his proposal to strip public workers of collective bargaining rights. With Senate Democrats still missing, Walker presented the second part of...

State Budget Fights Fire Up Union; Obama Involved

WASHINGTON -- Organized labor is trying to re-energize and take advantage of the growing backlash from the wave of anti-union sentiment in Wisconsin and more than a dozen other states. President Barack Obama and his political machine are offering tactical support, eager to repair strained relations with some union leaders...

Green Bay Packers Players Hit Gov. Scott Walker, Sign Letter Supporting Collective Bargaining

It's now a Super Bowl-caliber battle in Wisconsin. Current and former members of the Green Bay Packers are lining up against Gov. Scott Walker's attempts to strip state workers of collective bargaining rights and have signed a letter in support of the AFL-CIO's actions, Milwaukee's Journal Sentinel reports. Curtis...

Opinion: Where Did the Jobs -- and Little Red Wagons -- Go?

(Oct. 15) -- Etch A Sketch by the Ohio Art Co. is made in China. Radio Flyer red wagons: made in China. Levi's: made in Latin America and Asia. When these and other American icons left the country, so did millions of jobs. Many of the more than 5 million manufacturing jobs and 600,000 information-sector jobs that have...

Math Check: New York Times Fudges Auto Workers' Salaries?

(Oct. 8) -- How much do auto workers really make nowadays? On Thursday, the New York Times ran a piece on General Motors' plans to build a new subcompact car in the United Sates with union labor. Deep into the story, the reporters (Bill Vlasik and Nick Bunkley) cited the following figures on auto workers' salaries:...

afl cio News From AOL

THE HUFFINGTON POST

9/11 Health Watch: Ensuring The Zadroga Act Fulfills Its Promise To Responders

After a nearly decade-long battle, supporters of the James Zadroga Health and Compensation Act celebrated its passage into law this January.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

PIMCO CIO Urges 'Gradually' Cutting Deficit

Bill Gross, co-chief investment officer of PIMCO, the world's biggest bond fund manager, on Thursday urged lawmakers to cut the...

afl cio News From the Web

02/08/12 Unions air ads against Tier VI pension plan Source: FOX - WXXA 23 - Albany NY The unions that represent state workers are taking their fight with the governor to the airwaves.
11/17/11 It's Shit Like This, Unions Source: Balloon Juice A friend of mine told me that his generally politically uninterested and not tech-nerdy 16 year-old daughter came home yesterday complaining about Protect-IP or SOPA , the Internet blacklist legislation.

Background on afl cio

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of fifty-six national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers (as of June 2008, the most recent official statistic).

more at wikipedia »