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Later this week, SEIU President Andrew L. Stern, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney and former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 will address the strikers...
...card will be seen as a test run for a national ID card, a controversial idea. Workers are concerned that background checks be fair and appealable. "We want to be sure there's due process," says Ed Wytkind, executive director of the transportation trades department of the AFL-CIO. "And that they single out not the person who committed a crime 20 years ago but the person who is a security threat today." Yet even those who are wary appear resigned. "We're not 100% behind it," says Mike Russell of the American Trucking Association. "But we realize...
...other issue. But these days, alongside images of the Rio bloodshed, there's an uncommon sight that even Brazilian politicians apparently can't ignore: the nation's World Cup-champion football team Sporting Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) T shirts in support of leftist President Luiz In á cio Lula da Silva's ambitious antipoverty program. The team's gesture reflects, for the moment anyway, a rare sense of unified national purpose in Brazil. Last week's headlines also included all 27 of the country's state governors pledging to help Lula and his Workers' Party (PT) achieve crucial...
Deep in Brazil's semi-arid interior, at the climax of a trip designed to show his cabinet the country's crushing poverty, newly elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mounted a makeshift stage and, like a lead singer introducing his band, presented his ministers to the crowd of 7,000. Polite applause greeted the parade of bureaucrats - but then Lula called on his Culture Minister and the applause turned into a roar. For more than 30 years Gilberto Gil has been one of the two biggest pop stars in Brazil - a man whose music...
...Rosenthal emphasized that the AFL-CIO is not only concerned with gaining political power...