blogs.wsj.com - 11/6/2008
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Kris Maher reports on unions and the election.
Among the biggest winners in Tuesdays election was organized labor, which welcomed increased Democratic control of Washington.
We at the AFL-CIO are delighted that we will have a new neighbor across the park, said John Sweeney , the labor federations president, to reporters today, hinting at a closeness to the White House that goes beyond geography.
Payback time? Labor is now hoping Obama and congressional Democrats will pass an ...
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discoverthenetworks.org 10/14/2008 — Leader and founder of the radical cult ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) - a nationwide activist network engaged in "community organizing" and in voter mobilization drives for George Soros' Shadow Party Former ...
Executive PayWatch Database
aflcio.org 11/22/2008 — G. Richard Wagoner Chief Executive Officer General Motors Corporation The proxy statement for General Motors Corporation uses the new SEC executive compensation rules. In 2007, G. Richard Wagoner raked in $14,415,914 in total compensation according to ...
Unions in Debt
online.wsj.com 6/10/2009 — 'We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama," declared Andy Stern last month, and the president of the Service Employees International Union wasn't exaggerating. The SEIU and AFL-CIO have been spending so much on politics that they're going deeply into ...
Union officials don't want Miami mayor in Obama Cabinet - Miami-Dade
miamiherald.com 12/5/2008 — Miami Mayor Manny Diaz's potential ascent to a Cabinet post in the Obama administration -- a possibility buzzed about for weeks -- is being challenged by a coalition of labor and activist groups who argue he has not done enough for working people. ...
Fox Attacks Union's Posh Digs, Even Though They're A Success Story
huffingtonpost.com 3/6/2009 — 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 ...
AFL CIO Dropping Mailer In GA
hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com 11/18/2008 — The AFL-CIO is launching a major effort over the next three weeks to help Democrat Jim Martin best Sen. Saxby Chambliss in the GA Senate run-off. The group will drop a new mailer to 81K union voters and begin a "wide-scale" ground campaign.
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AFL-CIO kicks off largest Get Out The Vote effort ever
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 10/22/2008 — The AFL-CIO endorsed Obama's campaign in late June 2008.
(CNN)—With less than two weeks to go before voters cast their ballots, the AFL-CIO launched a massive Get Out The Vote campaign Tuesday, targeting over 13 million union voters across the ...
AFL-CIO Advances Employee Free Choice Battle With New Poll
huffingtonpost.com 1/8/2009 — The AFL-CIO, one of the country's most powerful unions, has commissioned a new poll on the Employee Free Choice Act showing that their messaging on the legislation resonates with a broad and bipartisan swath of the population.
The survey, ...
Rich Trumka and the Future of America's Labor Movement
dailykos.com 9/17/2009 — Happy Labor Day. I had been planning to write a piece for today about what Rich Trumka's imminent ascension to the presidency of the AFL-CIO means for America's labor movement, when I saw that the Washington Post -- my local paper -- had actually ...
Bush clearing path for Obama to take command —
msnbc.com: Politics
The Bush administration is providing security clearances, working space and policy briefings to President-elect Barack Obama's team as the transformation of the White House gets fully under way. World leaders are calling for Obama, and the White ...
Bush: Economic challenges await new president —
Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Thursday the United States faces economic challenges that "will not pause" to let a new president settle into the job, as he promised to work for an orderly transfer of power to Democrat Barack ...