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Fox Attacks Union's Posh Digs, Even Though They're A Success Story
huffingtonpost.com - 3/6/2009
Fox Attacks Union's Posh Digs, Even Though They're A Success Story
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Conservative media outlets have been hammering the AFL-CIO for hosting a board meeting at a high-class resort in South Beach Miami. But a key fact has gone unmentioned: as a condition for booking that unionized hotel, the AFL-CIO was able to make major advancements for organized labor. On ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 3/12/2009
Big Union Vows To Back Arlen Specter In 2010 If He Supports Employee Free Choice
— theplumline.whorunsgov.com — This is big: Senior officials with the powerful AFL-CIO have privately assured GOP Senator Arlen Specter that... they'll throw their full support behind him in the 2010 Senate race if he votes for the Employee Free Choice Act, a senior labor strategist ... (more) Big Union Vows To Back Arlen Specter In 2010 If He ...

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AFL-CIO in Miami (video)
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AFL-CIO in Miami (video)
— youtube.com — AFL-CIO in Miami (more) AFL-CIO in Miami (video)

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commentarymagazine.com - 3/13/2009
They Did What?
— commentarymagazine.com — Granted, Big Labor has not gotten off to a flying start with its campaign to convince congressmen... to take away the secret ballot from workers, but now they really have outdone themselves. The AFL-CIO is publicly saying that it will back Arlen Specter ... (more) They Did What?

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Daily Kos:  Fox News Pleases Their Republican Overlords

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Fox News Pleases Their Republican Overlords
Daily Kos — ... Choice Act (EFCA). So Fox and other outlets have been working hard to discredit labor, airing stories about how the AFL’s conference today is being held in a “swanky” resort that many working folks would be unable to afford — even though it turns out that this resort was chosen because its construction was a major union success story. Fox News presented it as the unions "cutting a deal" with the hotel, leaving out a few tiny details: According to the AFL-CIO, when the hotel was planning an ...

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