1. Obesity and Bad Governance
(Newsletter)

...didates to all the union bosses in order to determine who – if anyone – is to get the endorsement from the AFL-CIO for the run to the White House. FULL STORY... A Blank Check for Domestic Spying E...

2. Light at the end of the tunnel
(Newsletter)

...p; Tuesday, 07 August 2007 Tonight, MSNBC will telecast a Democratic presidential forum sponsored by the AFL-CIO, with an expected audience of thousands of union members at Chicago’s historic Soldie...

3. Ridding the World of the Sickness of Pacifism
(Opinions/Society)

... a lifetime of conditioning and reach the American mind with that message? At the recent convention of the AFL-CIO, the country's leading labor organization, there was a very progressive resolution pu...

4. Conyers, Grijalva, Edwards Write to Hoyer Re Single Payer
(Editor/Letters)

... been endorsed by over 15,000 doctors, two former editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, 40 State AFL-CIO organizations, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the American Public Health Associat...

5. Illinois Citizens Deserve Corrupt Government
(Opinions/op-ed)

... Association, Illinois Retail Merchants Association, Illinois Retired Teachers Association, Illinois State AFL-CIO, Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce, Illino...

6. Slavery, American Style, Must Go!
(Opinions/op-ed)

...ate their activities on the children of the poor. Far from evincing a drop of "compassion," the AFL-CIO said the Bush 2008 fiscal budget "cuts more than one billion ($)in job training ...

7. The Bubble, The Bailout, Good Jobs and Goodfellas
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...rewarding themselves handsomely. Pay at large U.S. firms averaged nearly $11 million in 2006, according to AFL-CIO data. The workers’ advocate says CEO’s of big outfits are paying themselves 364 times...

8. Treasury Opens Vault; Gangs of Robbers Rush In
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...s, let them eat cake. This letter/press release is signed by the usual suspects on the left, including the AFL-CIO, Consumer Federation of America, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, Rainbow Push Coa...

9. The cartoon world of California State Assemblyman
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...ons and science-fiction dreams.  Tell me, Assemblyman DeVore, do you believe in warp drives, too? The AFL-CIO should realize that losing members to cancer is not what they want to promote.  ...

10. S. Koreans and U.S. beef
(Opinions/Society)

...e science on which the beef agreement was based. On June 10 FKTU president Jang Seok-chun sent a letter to AFL-CIO president John Sweeney requesting U.S. labor solidarity with the Korean people's prot...