Instead, Damon Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel of the AFL-CIO and the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), started some fireworks last Thursday.
One fast-growing grassroots organisation is Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which links union members and non-union workers to campaign for better jobs, higher standards in education and, above all, health-care reform. (Any progress on this front under the Obama administration will be claimed as a success by both AFL-CIO and the breakaway coalition led by Mr Stern.) Moreover, grassroots union activism in several swing states helped Mr Obama to victory.
While the Teamsters still has not issued an endorsement, the AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers previously endorsed Gore.
Mr. Fletcher formerly served as education director for the AFL-CIO and later as assistant to that union's president.
In 2009, both the AFL-CIO and the SEIU jointly released guidelines on an immigration reform package they would support.
The new visa program the chamber and AFL-CIO envision would fill that void.
Both the AFL-CIO and SEIU are lobbying for an easier path to citizenship than was proposed by the 2007 effort.
Johnson said the chamber and AFL-CIO are still talking, but much of the negotiating work has now been kicked up to Sens.
The AFL-CIO and Change to Win want a new commission to align immigration more closely with the needs of the labour market.
Contributions have come in cash and in the form of volunteer campaign workers, and AFL-CIO has been in the lead, organizing much of the effort.
There's still disagreement over plans for a new program to bring in agriculture workers, who weren't included in the deal struck between the chamber and AFL-CIO.
Finger-pointing erupted between the AFL-CIO and the chamber, with each side accusing the other of trying to sink immigration reform, leaving prospects for a resolution unclear.
The employers' group is adamantly opposed, for example, to a proposal by Rep. Bernie Sanders , (I-Vt.) backed by the Communications Workers of America, AARP and AFL-CIO.
On April 14th the AFL-CIO and Change to Win, a coalition of seven unions representing 6m more, argued that reform would help American workers in the long run.
The AFL-CIO and the pro-business U.S. Chamber of Commerce reached a deal late Friday that would allow tens of thousands of low-skill workers into the country to fill jobs in construction, restaurants and hotels.
Last July, a group of labor leaders, including Obama ally and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, joined Unite Here at a news conference in Washington, where Unite Here called for a global boycott of Hyatt Hotels.
The AFL-CIO and U.S. Chamber of Commerce had been fighting over wages for tens of thousands of low-skilled workers who would be brought in under the new program to fill jobs in construction, hotels and resorts, nursing homes and restaurants, and other industries.
The issue contributed to the failure of the last serious attempt at immigration reform in 2007, and Schumer and Graham sought to head off such an outcome this time around by asking chamber President Tom Donohue and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka to work together.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted the public-sector union ahead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and a flock of new Republican groups in campaign spending.
Representatives from the CME Group, NYSE Euronext, the Consumer Federation of America, the Managed Funds Association and the AFL-CIO will all be there to talk about over-the-counter derivatives, the role of intermediaries and hedge funds, consumer protection and hedge funds.
Rather than ACORN arguing for sub-prime mortgages, nurses and the AFL-CIO are pushing a FTT.
Senators working on the bill gave the Chamber and the AFL-CIO the job of helping negotiate an agreement on the temporary worker issue.
And the AFL-CIO, the US trade union federation which is opposing the deal, said that the proposed enforcement mechanisms did not go far enough.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who has the endorsement of the local Democratic Party and the AFL-CIO, has been considered the front-runner for months.
That group includes Richard Trumka, president of the 12.2 million member AFL-CIO, and Leo W. Gerard, president of United Steelworkers, which claims 1.2 million members.
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Democrats and the AFL-CIO are hoping that if they dump the unpopular secret ballot ban from card check, they can get to their magic number of 60 Senators.
Reports indicate that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, negotiating through the Gang of Eight senators, had reached significant agreement Friday on a new visa program to bring up to 200, 000 lower-skilled workers a year to the country.
The lack of agreement between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO means that senators attempting to write an immigration bill will have to find a compromise on their own on the flow of foreign workers into the country.
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In addition they're seeking to create a new visa program to bring foreign agriculture workers to the U.S. But wages and visa caps have been sticking points, just as they were for a separate low-skilled worker program that was resolved recently with a deal between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO.
As a result, it only seems rational that national union organizations, such as the AFL-CIO, SEIU and others, would follow the example of the International Association of Firefighters and swear off political contributions to federal-level politicos in favor of spending their money in support of state and local candidates.
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