Tag: AFL-CIO

AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka was a critic of the president-elect throughout the 2016 cycle. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

Trump meets with AFL-CIO chief

Gabby Morrongiello · January 13, 2017 3:42 pm

Among those introducing the legislation will be Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

AFL-CIO backs Ellison to lead DNC

Sean Higgins · December 8, 2016 5:01 pm

AFL-CIO chief says choices are "deeply inconsistent with the pledges he made in the campaign." (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Labor chief slams Trump Cabinet picks

Sean Higgins · December 1, 2016 10:23 pm

Labor groans after Chao tapped for Transportation

Sean Higgins · November 29, 2016 10:02 pm

Trumka, said Trump is "dangerous" and treats working-class voters like "second-class citizens." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Labor backs Pelosi to keep House Dem post

Sean Higgins · November 22, 2016 7:53 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., pledged Thursday to work with President-elect Donald Trump on economic issues. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

Elizabeth Warren offers to work with Trump

Sean Higgins · November 10, 2016 7:38 pm

AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka said, "If he is willing to work with us, consistent with our values, we are ready to work with him." (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

AFL-CIO’s Trumka ‘ready to work with’ Trump

Sean Higgins · November 9, 2016 8:01 pm

Trumka, said Trump is "dangerous" and treats working-class voters like "second-class citizens." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WikiLeaks: Clinton team found AFL-CIO head Trumka ‘annoying’

Rudy Takala · October 12, 2016 3:24 pm

More than a third of AFL-CIO members in key states still intend to vote for the GOP candidate even after the campaign illustrated the gulf between the leadership of the nation's largest labor federation and its members. (Bloomberg)

Union leaders struggle to turn members against Trump

Sean Higgins · September 26, 2016 4:01 am

Unions, industry, lawmakers tell administration to stop delaying construction. (AP Image)

Energy and Environment

Pressure mounts on Obama to allow Dakota Access pipeline

John Siciliano · September 16, 2016 11:58 pm

National AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks in Portland, Ore., Monday, May 18, 2015, about the organization's concerns over the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty that President Obama is pushing. He just became a grandfather. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Washington Secrets

AFL-CIO’s Trumka welcomes 5th generation to unions

Paul Bedard · September 5, 2016 5:34 pm

AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka said Donald Trump "talked like John Wayne [during his visit to Mexico,] but he acted like Winnie the Pooh."

AFL-CIO head: Trump ‘acted like Winnie the Pooh’ in Mexico

Gabby Morrongiello · September 1, 2016 3:03 pm