AFL-CIO & Presidential Election 2008 News

  • Labor board nominee provides first test of GOP's new ability to block Democrats' agenda (9 Feb 2010 08:34)

    ... could come in a vote to block President Barack Obama's choice of a union attorney ... bargaining agent. Becker, a lawyer for the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, has ...

  • Vote on NLRB nominee first test for GOP (9 Feb 2010 12:07)

    ... bargaining agent. Becker, a lawyer for the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, has ... after Brown's swearing in. Chamber executive vice president Bruce Josten called Becker's views "well outside ...

  • The Note: Bipartisanship as Frozen as Washington (9 Feb 2010 14:41)

    ... game. (There were winners and losers when President Obama visited Republicans for question time last ... overcome a GOP filibuster of the nominee. AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale: A quick look at ...

  • Craig Becker Could Be First Casualty of Scott Brown Win (9 Feb 2010 07:57)

    ... On Tuesday, the Senate will vote on President Obama's nomination of Craig Becker to a ... to his superiors at the SEIU and AFL-CIO. And in return, Members of Congress doing ...

  • Trumka: Time for Hill to Get Health Reform Right (9 Feb 2010 06:16)

    ... and signed into law by a Democratic president - welfare reform in 1996 and the ... by. Richard Trumka is president of the AFL-CIO. ...

  • State House Weekly Roundup: they're playing the feud (8 Feb 2010 17:59)

    ... and it was, the specter of the president's buddy - who shares the hackneyed list ... last minute Thursday to bail on the AFL-CIO's annual conference in Plymouth, after the group's ... toting anti-Patrick signs morphed into anger-tinged confusion. AFL-CIO legislative director Tim Sullivan went Zen discussing ...

  • Republicans at the table (8 Feb 2010 13:11)

    ... Democrats, from senatorial veterans such as Vice President Biden to freshman Sen. Tom Udall (N.M.), ... executive nominees. “Becker, a counsel for the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, was ...

  • DeLeo wants house troops to go retail (8 Feb 2010 20:30)

    ... he likely would have attended Thursday's state AFL-CIO conference in Plymouth, an event from which ... him at odds with Patrick and Senate President Therese Murray, neither of whom wants slots. ...

  • Chicago labor boss Dennis Gannon quits (4 Feb 2010 15:56)

    ... so far as to lay Gannon out in an expletive-deleted tirade in front of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. Gannon exacted his revenge four months after the mayor used his first-ever veto to ...

  • Obama: Jobs are No. 1 priority (3 Feb 2010 07:40)

    ... NASHUA — President Barack Obama unleashed bare-knuckled criticism against opposition ... "Good Jobs Now," on behalf of the AFL-CIO. "We support the president's jobs agenda," Allen ...

  • Prospects for organized labor's legislative agenda rapidly fading (6 Feb 2010 10:51)

    ... eluded his predecessors. With the election of President Barack Obama and Democrats in control of ... Becker, an associate general counsel to the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union. Republican ...

  • Does Congress Have the Courage to Confront the Economic Threat to America's Future? (6 Feb 2010 04:36)

    ... national debt. The release this week of President Obama’s FY 2011 budget projects a deficit ... service employees union - SEIU - the AFL-CIO, and NOW, all of whom have come ... to fuel his campaign. "And the same AFL-CIO which is pushing organized labor’s agenda and ...

  • State House Roundup: They're Playing The Feud (6 Feb 2010 18:59)

    ... and it was, the specter of the presidents buddy — who shares the hackneyed list ... last minute Thursday to bail on the AFL-CIOs annual conference in Plymouth, after the groups ... toting anti-Patrick signs morphed into anger-tinged confusion. AFL-CIO legislative director Tim Sullivan went Zen discussing ...

  • November chill seizes DNC meeting (6 Feb 2010 13:07)

    ... officials felt when they last gathered for President 's inauguration a year ago. In its ... Democratic chairman who still heads his state's AFL-CIO chapter, stood up to warn in plain ...

  • Court ruling maybe less consequential than it seems (4 Feb 2010 02:00)

    ... groups such as the ACLU and the AFL-CIO and conservative groups such as the NRA ... of which I am one, and by President Barack Obama. Most conservatives and Republicans with ...

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