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Executive Council Statement

Restoring America's Economic Health

Blog

Together, We Win: Worker Wins

… 132 and Southern California Gas (SoCalGas), recently launched a new program to tackle homelessness among veterans through training and employment opportunities. UMAP’s effective training-to-placement model will benefit 40 veterans over the next several months, and those who successfully graduate will …
Legislative Alert

Statement for the Record - Child Labor

… With union membership comes representation at work, the added protection of a collective bargaining agreement, increased training opportunities, and a means to promote social cohesion. Congress must pass the PRO Act (118th: S.567, H.R.20) to …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 8: One Nation, Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for All

… Third, every vote must be counted. A common ballot format in federal elections, common voting technology nationwide, training for poll workers and legislated clarity and consistency about recount procedures and timetables in federal elections …
Blog

AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney Dies at 86

AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney died Monday at the age of 86. Sweeney (SEIU) served as president of the AFL-CIO from 1995–2009, and his importance to America's working people can't be overstated. Here is what people across the labor movement and beyond are saying about Sweeney.
Legislative Testimony

Testimony of Celeste Drake before the House Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee Regarding the Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement

… associated legislation that includes a robust industrial strategy; investment in needed infrastructure as well as lifelong training and education for all workers; a procedure to address currency manipulation—which artificially suppresses American …
Statement

Comment letter urging the SEC to improve the quality and quantity of information that public companies are required to disclose under SEC Regulation S-K

… and practitioners, and specifically to require metrics including but not limited to: - Investment in workforce training and education; - Annual employee turnover, voluntary and involuntary; - Total amount spent on third-party human …
Executive Council Statement

The Values that Unite Us as a People and a Movement

… and implemented.  Furthermore, there are real problems with the implementation of the teacher quality and paraprofessional training provisions of NCLB. Underlying all these issues is the pervasive problem of funding. Congress knew the goals of NCLB …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 7: Protecting and Promoting Economic and Social Justice

Nothing is a more important or more accurate measure of the United States as a nation or of us as a movement than our commitment to ending workplace discrimination. We will do our part in that crusade.
Convention Resolution

Resolution 3: The Values That Unite Us as a People and a Movement

… and implemented. Furthermore, there are real problems with the implementation of the teacher quality and paraprofessional training provisions of NCLB. Underlying all these issues is the pervasive problem of funding. Congress knew the goals of NCLB …