Tag: AFL-CIO

"I think that there are no two greater contrasts between an economy that works for all of us and the sort of economy that Donald would seek to have the Republican Party construct in the United States than this backdrop." (AP)

O’Malley uses Trump’s Vegas hotel as backdrop to slam Trump

Curt Mills · August 19, 2015 9:46 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, speaks to the media after speaking at the 2015 International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers Conference, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Sanders’ growing support a dilemma for union leaders

Sean Higgins · July 31, 2015 4:01 am

Mike Huckabee is running as a conservative, but claims that he will "never be the Washington-Wall Street candidate" and that he is fighting for those who have been left behind. (AP Photo)Â

Huckabee the lone GOP hopeful at big union confab

Ariel Cohen · July 29, 2015 9:42 pm

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Union labels stripped from Phoenix fire trucks, legality questioned

Paul Bedard · July 23, 2015 1:21 pm

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker hold a dllar bill as speaks to supporters as he announces he is running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination at the Waukesha County Expo Center, July 13, 2015, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Scott Walker: Minimum wage is a ‘lame’ Democratic idea

Kelly Cohen · July 14, 2015 1:50 pm

"Pundits can evaluate the political meaning if the want, but my view is very plain: These are hateful and racist viewpoints," Richard Trumka said. (AP Photo)Â

Union boss doesn’t waste words in response to Walker announcement

Sean Higgins · July 13, 2015 4:00 pm

Trumka: ‘Scott Walker Is a National Disgrace’

Shoshana Weissmann · July 13, 2015 3:42 pm

Republican presidential candidate, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, speaks during a town hall event at the Main Street Cafe in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Huckabee courts Big Labor’s support

Sean Higgins · July 12, 2015 3:20 pm

Front-running Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, right, and her top challengers, Sen. Bernie Sanders, center, and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, will meet privately with the AFL-CIO's executive council at the end of July. (AP Photos)

Hillary and her rivals to meet with union leaders

Sean Higgins · July 10, 2015 5:24 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, joins members of the City Council and community leaders in a photo after he signed into law an ordinance that will gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Los Angeles, Saturday, June 13, 2015. The ordinance makes Los Angeles the largest city in the U.S. to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

LA’s new $15 minimum wage could cost county residents $30m annually

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2015 4:01 am

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka has criticized lawmakers who support the fast-track trade bill. (Getty Image)

Democrats fed up with union arm twisting on trade bill

Susan Ferrechio · June 4, 2015 4:01 am

Highways need fixing, according to experts. AP Photo

Ray LaHood: ‘America is one big pothole’

Kelly Cohen, Paul Bedard · May 14, 2015 3:22 pm