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… labor-management collaborations that benefited members, students and the school community. In 2005, she was elected to the AFL-CIO executive council, where she has served on the committees on Civil and Human Rights, Immigration, … and Occupational Health and Women Workers. The AFL-CIO Executive Council thanks Laura Rico for her many contributions to public education, to the labor movement, to her union and to this council. …

… In today’s economy, it is all too common for employers to misclassify workers as independent contractors in order to avoid statutory protections that apply only to employees and in order to avoid unionization.  The taxi industry is a powerful example of this trend.  The AFL-CIO believes that all workers deserve a voice at work, regardless of how they are classified by their employer.  The Executive Council is therefore proud to welcome the Taxi …

… The people most eager to proclaim themselves as deficit hawks are hypocrites, and the current congressional debate over deficit reduction is … have been seeing, in varying degrees, for the past 30 years.  As Warren Buffet famously said, “There’s class warfare, all right.  But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” From 1979 to 2008, the richest 10 percent … lowest levels in half a century, rather than the vast majority of Americans who have seen little reward for their hard work. In recent months, three budget blueprints—put forward by the Economic Policy Institute, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and the …