Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Service Employees International Union said it is re-joining the AFL-CIO. With the addition of SEIU, membership will expand to 15 million workers. ... Both unions had endorsed Vice President ...
Lawler has racked up 37 labor endorsements — 15 from law enforcement and 22 from construction and trades unions, including key affiliates of the 2.5 million member AFL-CIO, and from firefighters ...
The AFL-CIO was a major component of the New Deal Coalition that dominated politics into the mid-1960s. [9] Although it has lost membership, finances, and political clout since 1970, it remains a major player on the liberal side of national politics, with a great deal of activity in lobbying, grassroots organizing, coordinating with other liberal organizations, fund-raising, and recruiting and ...
Kentucky AFL-CIO [84] Maine AFL-CIO [85] Massachusetts AFL-CIO [86] Napa-Solano Central Labor Council [87] Nevada AFL-CIO [88] New Jersey AFL-CIO [89] New York State AFL-CIO [90] New York City Central Labor Council [91] Oregon AFL–CIO [92] Pennsylvania AFL–CIO [93] South Bay Labor Council [94] Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation [95 ...
The reaffiliation means the AFL-CIO can more directly pitch in on SEIU campaigns, including a high-profile one at Starbucks.That effort is led by Workers United, an SEIU affiliate, and has led to ...
The most important membership changes, however, occurred in 1968. The United Auto Workers (UAW) disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO on July 1, 1968, after UAW President Walter Reuther and AFL–CIO President George Meany could not come to agreement on a wide range of national public policy issues or on reforms regarding AFL–CIO governance. [19]
Liz Shuler, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (2021–present); Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL–CIO (2009–2021) [417] Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (2008–present); president of the United Federation of Teachers (1998–2008) [418]
Despite school board seats being nonpartisan positions, political endorsements and money trickle into local school board races. ... the Wisconsin AFL-CIO and the state teachers union WEAC. He ...