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...world." In truth, none of the plausible Democrats--not even Gephardt, who has made a career of protectionism--could do much more than rant about international labor and environmental standards if elected. The economic risks of tariffs are too great. But the posturing seems to be intensifying. The AFL-CIO endorsement is up for grabs, and several of the big unions that had planned to endorse Gephardt and Kerry are having second thoughts, given the Dean surge...
Saturday’s protesters slowly marched from the New Haven green, winding past the Yale-New Haven Medical Center to the intersection of York and Elm Streets, where 151 people, including AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, were arrested...
...million to remove a Governor they elected less than a year ago who has not committed any malfeasance and whose major sin was hiding from them the seriousness of the problems ahead when he was running for re-election. On Monday, when Davis found himself in Chicago at an AFL-CIO convention with Bill Clinton, he privately sought the counsel of the master political survivor. As they talked for more than an hour at the Drake Hotel, Clinton (who has also been advising Feinstein) compared Davis' situation with his own during impeachment. The key, he told Davis, is to stay...
...start paying attention; so far, the best he has polled is 12%, compared with Lieberman's 25% and Kerry's 14%. Another is whether the Establishment will try to rally its forces early behind anyone. All nine Democratic candidates will face questions from rank-and-file workers at the AFL-CIO's executive-council meeting in Chicago this week. But the panel appears in no hurry to give its endorsement, which requires support from two-thirds of member unions. Gephardt's long-standing ties to labor give him an edge, and he has already won the support of 10 major...
...union victory at Kukdong factory, also known as MexMode, is the first and only one among the 3,000 maquiladoros in Mexico in their 30-year history, according to Jeff Hermanson, a senior adviser with the AFL-CIO, which provided the workers with food, water and transportation during their three-day strike...