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… Las Vegas AFL-CIO Executive Council statement For a decade, working families in Colorado have fought to build a stronger, more unified labor movement and create a more balanced political and economic environment – an environment responsive to working people’s needs and concerns.  This extraordinary effort has produced significant progress and potential on many … helping elect working family-friendly majorities in the state House as well as the Senate and replacing a Governor hostile to workers with one who promised to stand with workers. The reality revealed by recent events, however, is sobering and …

… shared in the wealth they helped create as wages rose along with productivity.  Strong unions and a government committed to balance power between America’s corporations and their workers meant that we grew together as the economy prospered. A … retirement security for their employees. Today, America’s workers are the most productive workers in the world and they work harder than workers in any other developed economy.  Nevertheless, they face stagnating wages and rising insecurity. … children and future generations. In the months ahead, as we turn our attention to the fulfillment of our sacred democratic right to elect our leaders, we must consider which candidates for office will receive our support.  We will do so not on the …

… Power, Reclaiming the American Dream.”  The resolution stated:  “The AFL-CIO will lead a coordinated labor movement effort to directly challenge the Wall Street Agenda for economic policy and advocate an alternative America’s Economic Agenda to strengthen the economy, defend the living standards of all America’s workers, help our movement grow and restore the … stagnation of workers’ wages and living standards. Our movement and the workers we represent believe the economy should work for the people in America—the people do not work for the economy.  Our economy should be strong enough to provide the …

… Chicago AFL-CIO Executive Council statement The AFL-CIO and its affiliates will lead a national effort to ensure that all Americans have full access to a diverse range of excellent, affordable higher education opportunities because we recognize that higher education will be … the best faculty and staff in the world because our institutions of higher education provided good jobs and the freedom to work without outside interference. These policies produced remarkable results.  The share of the workforce with at least a …

… Trade Unionism and Democracy in the 21st Century  March 07, 2007 Las Vegas AFL-CIO Executive Council statement We resolve to fulfill the yearning of the human spirit for liberty, justice and community; to advance individual and associational … of the International Labor Organization (ILO)   and the   ILO’s 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.  The words in these documents are weapons in the ongoing fight for human freedom and justice. The struggle for … by organization, in the fabric of civil society. Trade unions are an essential building block in that process. The right of workers to organize and bargain collectively is the most fundamental form of democratic participation. The very …

… AFL-CIO General Board statement Over the past three years, the unions of the AFL-CIO have prepared for a national fight to restore working people’s freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.  We worked with Congressional leaders to introduce the Employee Free Choice Act … to make his or her own decision to join a union and bargain for better wages, benefits and a voice on the job.  This work represents the highest priority of the AFL-CIO leadership, staff and Executive Council.  It combines the major elements …

… in both houses of Congress.  On March 1, the House of Representatives voted for Employee Free Choice by a margin of 241 to 185.  And on June 26, 51 senators voted to defeat a Republican filibuster of Employee Free Choice and move forward with … forming and joining unions in this country is badly broken.  Workers today who merely want to exercise this fundamental right, which is supposed to be guaranteed by law, are routinely forced to endure a grueling ordeal—one in which they are … concerted hostility of the House Republican leadership—ultimately gave way on May 25th to our superior commitment to make work pay.  Similarly, our commitment to enact Employee Free Choice will not be abandoned until it succeeds. So the question …

… joined Transport Workers (TWU) Local  282, the union movement has been his life.  He became a shop steward and was elected to his local union’s Executive Board and then as its President.  In 1983, he joined the TWU international staff as an organizer and rose through the union to become Transit Division Representative, Transit Director, Vice President and Executive Vice President.  After more than a generation of service to his union, his TWU sisters and brothers chose him as their International President. Through the years, brother O’Brien has …

… SAG and the entire union movement.  That is why the members of SAG elected her as their president in 2001, the third woman to hold that office.  Under Gilbert's leadership, SAG achieved some enormously important goals.  It implemented Global Rule One, which ensures SAG contract protections for SAG members wherever in the world they work.  The union streamlined its National Board of Directors from 105 to 71 members and created a more effective branch structure.  Along with AFTRA and advertising industry representatives, it …