- The AFL-CIO and Change to Win on Labor Day - 09/04/06
Lead: Labor Day 2006 finds working families in the U.S. struggling economically as both the AFL-CIO and the Change To Win Federation
are making massive political efforts to turn things around. Doug Cunningham reports.
By Doug Cunningham
AFL-CIO ...
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- AFL-CIO: Split Hurt The Labor Movement, But AFL-CIO Organizing Is Robust - 07/28/06
By Doug Cunningham
[Stewart Acuff 1]: “The split hurt the labor movement. We have worked very hard to mitigate the worst effects of it. But it hurt the labor movement.”
That was AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff. It’s been a year si ...
page - Doug Cunningham - 07/28/2006 - 8:14am - 0 comments
- Click To Listen: Streaming Headlines August 17, 2006
Headlines:
http://www.laborradio.org/node/3970"> CWA And AFSCME Launch Arizona State Workers Organizing Drive
http://www.laborradio.org/node/3971"> Iowa Nurses Strike Again - "Borderline Union Busting" Alleged
http://w ...
Streaming Headlines - Doug Cunningham - 08/16/2006 - 6:10pm - 0 comments
- CLick To Listen: Streaming Headlines August 17, 2006
Headlines:
CWA And AFSCME Launch Arizona State Workers Organizing Drive
Iowa Nurses Strike Again - "Borderline Union-Busting" Alleged
Independent Steelworkers Union Wins Trade Battle on Tariffs
AFL-CIO Joins Ca ...
Streaming Headlines - Doug Cunningham - 08/17/2006 - 9:32am - 0 comments
- Working Women "Stir The Pot" On Political Issues In AFL-CIO Voter Mobilization - 10/10/06
By Doug Cunningham
Working women coast to coast today will be “stirring the pot” on vital political issues like health care and retirement security in a massive AFL-CIO sponsored all-women voter mobilization. Meagan Jeronimo of Houston is co-chai ...
page - Doug Cunningham - 10/09/2006 - 5:20pm - 0 comments
- AFL-CIO plans civil disobedience in run up to important NLRB vote - 07/13/2006
By Doug Cunningham
The AFL-CIO plans a civil disobedience action at the National Labor Relations Board in Washington today. Hundreds of nurses, construction workers, miners and others will march on the NLRB to protest the “Kentucky River” case wh ...
page - Jesse Russell - 07/12/2006 - 2:53pm - 0 comments
- AFL-CIO building relationship with day laborers - 08/07/06
By Doug Cunningham
The AFL-CIO is talking to organizations involved in migrant day labor centers in a broad effort to establish a closer working relationship with those workers. AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff says although he’s involved ...
page - Jesse Russell - 08/06/2006 - 4:12pm - 0 comments
- Anti-Union Terror In Columbia Documented In AFL-CIO Report - 06/16/06
By Doug Cunningham
As Congress prepares to consider a free trade agreement with Columbia the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center is out with a new report on the murderous labor abuses rampant in that nation. Bob Perillo of Chicago’s U.S. Labor Education ...
page - Jesse Russell - 06/15/2006 - 3:28pm - 0 comments
- AFL-CIO promises biggest get out the vote effort - 09/21/2006
By Doug Cunningham
The election season is in full swing and groups vested in the outcome of races throughout the country are mobilizing funds and supporters. Organized labor is promising one of the bigger voter turn outs. Doug Cunningham has more:
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page - Jesse Russell - 09/20/2006 - 4:05pm - 0 comments
- Click To Listen: Streaming Headlines September 27, 2006
Headlines:
NYC Restaurant Workers Say They're Owed Millions in Back Wages & Tips
Alice In Bushland: Through The Looking Glass With "King Bush" & "Mad Hatter Rumsfeld"
AFL-CIO, Textile Association File Joint Tra ...
Streaming Headlines - Doug Cunningham - 09/26/2006 - 5:14pm - 0 comments
- Four major unions demand AFL-CIO delete their members from master mailing list
Four of the unions pushing AFL-CIO reform want their member's names deleted from the AFL-CIO's master mailing list of 13 million union households. The AFL-CIO told Workers Independent News that Political Director Karen Ackerman did get a letter telling t ...
page - Jesse Russell - 05/23/2005 - 9:22pm - 0 comments
- Teamsters reform proposal defeated in AFL-CIO Executive Committee, Sweeney-backed proposal passes.
The Teamsters proposal to cut the money local unions send to the AFL-CIO in half and use it for organizing instead was defeated in a 14-7 vote of the labor federation's executive committee in Las Vegas. Teamsters President James Hoffa says his union, SEI ...
page - Jesse Russell - 05/24/2005 - 2:46pm - 0 comments
- AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff On Impact Of Last Year's Labor Split
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Workers Independent News Anchor/Reporter Doug Cunningham speaks with AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff about the impact of last year's split in organized labor. Acuff says the split hurt the labor movement, but the AFL ...
Raw Audio - Doug Cunningham - 07/28/2006 - 6:10am - 0 comments
- AFL-CIO official resigns over not being in the loop on reform announcement
The chair of the AFL-CIO's Public Affairs Committee has resigned for being kept out of the loop on the labor federation's reform plan. Harold Schaitberger, President of the International Association of Firefighters quit in a letter to AFL-CIO President J ...
page - Jesse Russell - 05/23/2005 - 9:05pm - 0 comments
- AFL-CIO Urges Use Of Tariffs At Trade Crisis Summit In Washington - 07/12/06
By Doug Cunningham
The AFL-CIO and the U.S. Business and Industry Council are co-hosting a conference on the U.S. trade crisis today in Washington, D.C. AFL-CIO Policy Director Thea Lee says a foreign trade deficit of more than $720 billion a year is ...
page - Doug Cunningham - 07/11/2006 - 5:12pm - 0 comments
