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ST. PAUL (AP) -- A top AFL-CIO leader is calling on Minnesota workers to mobilize before the 2004 election to oust the Bush administration. Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer, said the White House is "the most anti-union...
The AFL-CIO retirees will meet at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Mississippi Terrace community room.
...to breakfast with a group of reporters last week because, the AFL-CIO president explained, he was concerned he might spit out...promising a new jobs plan - after he returns from the beach. The AFL-CIO chief, for one, is worried it will be the same old mix...
...to raise taxes is mounting, led by the state's large, powerful and DFL-aligned public-employee unions. AFSCME and the AFL-CIO are seeking tax increases of at least $6 billion "to . pay for the things Minnesotans care about," as Forum Communications...
...that belong to the union. The national annual budget is nearly two-thirds larger than that of the trade union conglomerate AFL-CIO.About one third of the money goes to local affiliates in the form of "UniServe grants" for expenses, organizing...
...Teamsters Public Law Enforcement Employees' Union Local No. 320; American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; AFL-CIO Local Union No. 689A; Minnesota Nurses Association; Law Enforcement Labor Services Locals No. 13, No. 14 and No...
...The event, the morning after he and Clinton made a joint fundraising appearance, was ostensibly an "official" speech to the AFL-CIO's building trades section. But it was a campaign rally in everything but name. The audience members shouted out Obama's...
...was unprecedented for a speaker."I threw him out of the Capitol," Zellers said. Wayne Fleischhacker, who serves on the AFL-CIO's East Central Area Labor Council, expressed concern to a reporter after the news conference about the potential loss...
...hours and organizers don't have a city permit to stay overnight outside city hall. The demonstration is co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO and being supported by the Central Lakes Senior Caucus, DFL; local trades and labor groups, and MoveOn.org. Sluss...