AFL-CIO
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Training on Strategic Campaign Research, Nov. 16-18
From the AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Research: Our annual training on Strategic Campaign Research will be held on November 16-18 at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum, Maryland. […] The training in November is a shorter and more accessible version of the intensive Cornell class that we cosponsor each summer. It is designed for those who…
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A Back Room Deal for the 1%: The Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Murphy Institute is known for its public programming, bringing thinkers, leaders and policymakers together to discuss the issues vital to making change in our city and our world. Watch Celeste Drake, Trade and Globalization Specialist, AFL-CIO discussing the Obama administration and the Trans-Pacific Partnership at “A Back-Room Deal for the 1%: The Trans-Pacific Partnership.” [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfCGqZrjwIg&feature=youtu.be]
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Organized Labor Hopes to Grow by Helping Immigrants Gain Citizenship
By Steve Brier One of the persistent tragedies in the history of the U.S. labor movement has been the repeated opposition of unions to organizing new immigrant workers into their ranks. Not only the old AFL, but even the more progressive and inclusive Knights of Labor, attacked new immigrants (the Chinese, in the case of…
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Harsh Prison Sentences: A Labor Issue?
Is mass incarceration a labor issue? According to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the answer is a resounding “yes”. According to Dave Jamieson, writing in the Huffington Post, Trumka is prepared to give remarks on Friday “offering robust support” for California’s Porposition 47, a proposal that would downgrade non-violent crimes to misdemeanors, thereby rendering thousands of state and county prisoners…
