The labor movement worked hard to elect Barack Obama president and win a new Democratic majority in Congress in the hope of new possibilities for labor law reform, universal health care, immigration reform, and an end to the Iraq war. ... When the AFL-CIO campaigned in Washington..…
Asked whether there is a rival organization fighting term limits, she replies: 'It's called Congress.' Organized labor leadership also has opposed term limits, she says, but many rank-and-filers are on her side. . ..…
Libby made him White House official convicted of crime since Iran-contra years ago and marks the latest fallout from Bush administration's handling of the run-up to Iraq.. ..…
And the textualists agree that if it were permissible to consider congressional intent, the legislative history demonstrated that the statute was intended to apply only to manual labor. But in their view Congress is a “they” made up of 535 legislators, not an “it,” and legislative..…
CIA's contribution, included covert support for pro-democracy street rallies and encouragement and Congress, armed forces, friendly labor and student groups, church, and business... ..…
About 50 community organizations and unions endorsed the march, including Voces de la Frontera, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), American Federation of Teachers, local 212, Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA), Milwaukee..…
Support for the strikers and the boycott has gained national support beyond coordinated actions around the country, as the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) national, representing 12 million members, has endorsed the boycott. . . ..…
*South Central Federation of Labor (representing 94 labor organizations) 30,000 members . *American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) national, 12 million members . ..…
Yet Kazin notes the successes of the Communist Party’s cadres as labor organizers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the late 1930s; he lists popular Party or pro-Party artists, including Woody Guthrie and Paul Robeson, and hails what he calls the Party’s beneficial..…
Had Congress seen the problem primarily as a matter of economics, the obvious solution would have been to suspend immigration until the labor market tightened. But because so much anti-immigrant sentiment derived from the change in immigrants’ national origins, Congress took a..…