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...Trumka, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations is working to show younger generations of workers that the labor movement can be key to addressing several of their needs, ranging from health care to justice for undocumented workers to workplace safety. He added that the AFL-CIO has been active in each of these areas...
American workers are angry, and the labor movement ought to form alliances across socioeconomic groups to prevent this anger from turning into hatred, President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka said at an Institute of Politics forum last night...
Trumka—who spoke earlier in the day at the study group of his AFL-CIO predecessor, current IOP Resident Fellow John Sweeney—said that the labor movement provides necessary organization and political voice for workers who do not feel the system is on their side...
...Delay implementation of a tax on expensive health-insurance plans from 2013 to 2018. This cut 10-year revenue from the tax from $149 billion to just $32 billion. Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, which opposed the tax out of concerns it would end up hitting many union members' health plans, said in a conference call with reporters Thursday that he was satisfied with the change. While stressing that the Senate bill with the House package is "not a perfect bill," Trumka said it will "end a reign of insurance company terror" and is "an opportunity to change...
...Citi's CEO's salary has been cut, but there has been no trickle-down effect," says Brandon Rees, the deputy director of the office of investment at the AFL-CIO, which owns shares in Citi. "Now that they are out from under the pay czar, expect 2010 numbers to go up from here. One of the concerns we do have about companies exiting TARP is that they are just going to return to the old model of compensation...