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We Need Two New Presidents
I feel stupid even talking about this, but it must be addressed. Newsmax reported, and Fox News and a host of other news outlets later recycled - that the very weathered AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka...
Unions Propel Conor Lamb to Razor Thin Victory
After a long night of counting ballots, Conor Lamb appears to have won the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District by about 600 votes. While political pundits will spend...
AFL-CIO's Trumka: Trump is Actively Hurting Workers
After a year of broken promises, constant investigations and scandals Trump is seeing his support plummet all over the country. Even union members who helped Trump win vital states in the Midwest are...
Everybody Re-elected at the AFL-CIO
This weekend, union leaders began the 2017 AFL-CIO convention. The convention, which happens every four years, included the election of the AFL-CIO leadership including President, Secretary/Treasurer...
AFL-CIO Does the Right Thing
Following yesterday’s story calling on the AFL-CIO to leave Trump’s Manufacturing Council and Trump’s defense of Nazi’s at an afternoon press conference, the AFL-CIO announced...
AFL-CIO needs to exit Manufacturing Council
Let’s take a look outside right now; riots in the streets, Nazi’s and Klan members mowing down protestors while the world mocks Trump. What the hell is going on people. Donald won with...
New Leadership Needed at the AFL-CIO
I recently spoke and participated at a conference of unions, discussing the many fronts organized labor will be taking on in the months and years to come. In New York, a Constitutional Convention is...
Acosta: I work for Trump, el jefe
Acosta: Trump is Boss: Labor secretary nominee Alexander Acosta left little doubt at his Wednesday confirmation hearing that he will be a loyal soldier for Trump. Acosta told the Senate HELP...
Don’t Let Trump Speak for Workers
This editorial first appeared in the New York Times.“I am your voice,” President-elect Donald J. Trump declared at the Republican National Convention. In another campaign speech, he told...
A leader since 12
This interview with Bloomberg's Josh Eidelson and the AFL-CIO's Rich Trumka originally appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek.After Ferguson [Mo.] cop Darren Wilson killed Michael...