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10 Important Initiatives Coming Out of the AFL-CIO National Convention
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Many have praised the recent AFL-CIO convention for the delegates' efforts to fundamentally change organized labor's direction and strategy. The hope is that a reinvigorated labor movement will reverse the decline in union power and forge a broad coalition that can effectively fight the rising tide of wealth and income inequality and the growing impoverishment of the working-class. The following article from the AFL-CIO's online blog highlights ten new initiatives.
AFL-CIO Forges National Partnership with United Students Against Sweatshops
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"We have to change the way we're doing business in a significant way to get out of the crisis we find ourselves in," says Trumka. "But this crisis also offers us ample and tremendous opportunity."
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Unions’ Misgivings on Health Law Burst Into View
The New York Times
Many union leaders have come to the conclusion that the Affordable Care Act contains provisions that may seriously undermine collectively bargained health insurance plans covering millions of their members. In addition, union leaders are angry over the Obama administration's willingness to relax rules for employer mandated coverage while ignoring the threat posed to full-time workers by making a 30 hour work week the threshold for mandatory insurance coverage.
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Labor Embraces the New America
The Washington Post
“We are a small part of the 150 million Americans who work for a living,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in his keynote address Monday at the labor federation's convention in Los Angeles. “We cannot win economic justice only for ourselves, for union members alone. It would not be right and it’s not possible. All working people will rise together, or we will keep falling together.”
Organize the South or Die
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We can change the South and by doing so, we can change the nation.
Tidbits - September 5, 2013
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Longshore Union Quits the AFL-CIO
Labor Notes
ILWU members see turf battles with rival unions as an additional, unwelcome hurdle to surmount, in an already difficult employer battle.
The AFL-CIO Is Exploring New Investments in Alt-Labor and Texas Organizing
The Nation
The AFL-CIO is discussing “the next stage” in alternate formations and there “will be some limited, thoughtful experiments in different places through various affiliates.” The AFL-CIO also plans to support an ambitious multi-union effort to organize in Texas. “The AFT has come to us and said, ‘We want you to convene other unions to make a long-term investment in Texas and we’re going to do it.”
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