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Executive Council Statement

America Must Invest in Infrastructure or Risk Becoming Uncompetitive

… rail and transit, roads, sewers, utilities, aviation, shipping and so much more—into a nation that can’t find the will to lead in the 21st century.  The American people want and deserve leadership that will take the steps necessary to keep the nation strong and to ensure the foundation for our economy is sound. This leadership must begin by rebuilding the … and efficiently is our nation’s substandard electric transmission and distribution system. We can and must find the right economic incentives to make these investments attractive to what is largely a privately owned system. Fixing our …
Executive Council Statement

A Serious Investment In Our Transportation System And Its Workers

… of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21 st Century (TEA-21) is at a critical juncture. President Bush continues to publicize his staunch opposition to a fully-funded reauthorization bill, and most recently has threatened to veto any legislation over $270 billion. Despite … $1 billion spent on transportation creates 47,000 jobs, a higher reauthorization bill means more Americans are put to work. The House bill would create 5.6 million more jobs than the Administration’s proposal, while the Senate bill would add …
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New York Messengers Alliance Launches, First for Couriers aka ‘Asphalt Warriors’

… on each side of your bike handlebars while traveling across a potholed 14th Street and an SUV sharply U-turns toward your right, leaving you seconds to make a life-saving evasive maneuver? Snap decisions are now my daily life since I entered this messenger game 18 months … compensation for injured workers. NYMA seeks to organize one union for all 10,000 courier brothers and sisters who work the streets in the country's biggest courier market. National Taxi Workers Alliance (NTWA) Solidarity Statement: After …
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Transforming Heartbreak to Hope: Worker Wins

… Our latest roundup of worker wins begins with New York taxi drivers fighting to save lives and includes numerous examples of working people organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. … New … : After months of non-stop campaigning, the National Taxi Workers Alliance (NTWA) secured first-of-its-kind legislation to regulate the app-dispatch sector, which includes companies like Uber and Lyft. The over-saturation of the roads by the … Council President Tom Cummins (AFT) lauded the huge win and said, "No worker should be forced to choose between going to work to pay their bills and staying home to take a sick child to the doctor or go to the doctor themselves." SAG-AFTRA …
Executive Council Statement

State Federation and Central Labor Council Organization and Program Review

… Hollywood, Fla. Why We Need to Change Our labor movement faces a deep crisis: despite the emphasis of individual unions on organizing and politics, our numbers are in decline and our ability to impact the climate for organizing is weaker in an increasingly hostile political environment.  The 2004 elections present … in the organizations.  Some of these organizations have accomplished remarkable achievements including using the Voice at Work program to support affiliates’ organizing campaigns; implementing the Ten Point Program to win political campaigns and …
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Improving Patient Safety: Worker Wins

… California, members of the California Nurses Association (an affiliate of National Nurses United/NNU) voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new five-year contract. The contract covers more than 14,000 registered nurses at more than a dozen … Workplace Safety in New Contract : Neatly 900 members of the Maine State Nurses Association (part of the NNOC/NNU) who work at the Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) ratified a new contract. "This new agreement sets a new bar for quality care … sisters, you'll have some hard feelings from time to time, but they're short-lived." Columbia Postdoctoral Researchers Win Right to Form Union : The National Labor Relations Board ruled that postdoctoral researchers at Columbia can form a union. …
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Get to Know AFL-CIO's Affiliates: AFT

… public education, health care and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do." Current Leadership of Union : Randi Weingarten was elected president of AFT in 2008 after serving for … cutting its size in half by the end of the 1930s. The AFT fought back and pushed for academic freedom and tenure laws to protect teachers during the Red Scare. By the end of the Great Depression, the AFT had secured tenure laws of some sort in …
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Nelson Cruikshank

… for Social Security and health insurance, particularly for the elderly and people with disabilities. Due in large part to Cruikshank's lobbying efforts, Congress passed Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956, an amendment to the Social Security Act that provided Social Security benefits to people with disabilities for the first time. He was also … turned to the labor movement as an ally in these efforts. In Connecticut, Cruikshank divided his time between church work and labor organizing, working closely with Frank P. Fenton (later director of organization for the AFL-CIO) and other …
Executive Council Statement

Standing Up To Republican Hostage-Taking

… Republicans are holding the middle class hostage to their demands on behalf of the richest 2 percent of Americans.  There can be no excuse for giving in to their demands to … tax cuts, blocking extension of federal unemployment benefits, refusing to replace the payroll tax cut with the Make Work Pay tax credit, shutting down the federal government and manufacturing a political crisis by refusing to raise the debt … we have to stop catering to the demands of the richest 2 percent of Americans. We have to prioritize our needs, and right now America’s top three needs are jobs, jobs and jobs. The first year of across-the-board sequestration cuts that were …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 9: Good Jobs, Economic Security and Tax Fairness

… Executive Council THE ENDLESS BUDGET BATTLES in Washington are essentially disagreements over what kind of society we want to be and what kind of economy we want to have—now and in the future. Wall Street and the wealthiest Americans are refusing … tax fairness to make these things possible. Goo d Jobs If we want good jobs and full employment, we must first make the right budget choices. For several years, U.S. budget policies have failed to focus on the greatest economic challenge facing … service employees. • Deman d higher levels of public investment. These productive investments will not only put people to work, but also lay the foundations for long-term economic growth. • Deman d that rebuilding U.s. manufacturing and  th e …