Tag: AFL-CIO

Workers assemble Volkswagen Passat sedans at the German automaker's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP/Erik Schelzig)

Beltway Confidential

Politicized unions are smaller, weaker unions

Quin Hillyer · May 17, 2019 9:01 pm

AFL-CIO spends far more on politics than organizing

Sean Higgins · May 17, 2019 4:06 pm

Magazine - Your Land

Word of the Week: ‘Marxist’

Nicholas Clairmont · May 17, 2019 4:00 am

Donald Trump and Richard Trumka

Mexico must do more to meet USMCA requirements, AFL-CIO’s Trumka says

Sean Higgins · April 23, 2019 2:48 pm

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks to union members and other federal employees at a rally, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019 at AFL-CIO Headquarters in Washington.

AFL-CIO leader Trumka faults Obama for siding with Wall Street in his last year in office

Sean Higgins · April 23, 2019 1:56 pm

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Richard Trumka

AFL-CIO opposes Green New Deal

Sean Higgins · April 23, 2019 1:24 pm

President Trump speaks at the International Union of Operating Engineers International Training and Education Center.

Trump vows he will ‘always’ be labor’s friend

Sean Higgins · April 11, 2019 3:09 am

Richard Trumka, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations president, addresses members.

AFL-CIO warns against ‘premature’ vote on NAFTA replacement

Sean Higgins · April 1, 2019 5:21 pm

President Donald Trump, center, reaches out to Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they prepare to sign a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that is replacing the NAFTA trade deal, during a ceremony at a hotel before the start of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018.

AFL-CIO will oppose USMCA if Mexico doesn’t change its laws

Sean Higgins · March 14, 2019 7:18 pm

United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts testifies during a hearing in D.C.

Beltway Confidential

The latest opponent of the Green New Deal: The AFL-CIO

Becket Adams · March 12, 2019 10:48 pm

United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts speaks at an event.

Energy and Environment

Unions split with Democrats over ‘Green New Deal’

John Siciliano · March 12, 2019 7:45 pm

Union members and other federal employees rally to call for an end to the partial government shutdown, Thursday, January, 10, 2019, outside the White House.

Federal workers rally to #StopShutdown

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · January 11, 2019 12:18 am