Ohio got some bad economic news. The state lost more than 11,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate has worsened to 7.2 percent—the highest in Ohio since December 1992. Ohio may take an additional major job hit if DHL Express is allowed to close its air freight facility in Wilmington, where more than 8,000 people […]
Obama Speaks with Union Members: ‘We Can Turn Around America’
by Seth Michaels, Jul 31, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama took part in a nationwide conference call with union members this afternoon, and he’s ready to work with the union movement to win this fall and turn around America. More than 2,500 union leaders, activists and members across the country got a chance to hear […]
Begich, Kilroy, Udall Speak Out for Employee Free Choice
by Seth Michaels, Jul 30, 2008 Around the country, union members will make the critical difference in electing pro-working family members of Congress. The AFL-CIO’s Labor 2008 program is a strong national effort to reach out to millions of union members through person-to-person contact, and these union voters will be the ones who ensure pro-worker […]
Obama Supports Pro-Worker Policies-and Union Members Support Obama
by Seth Michaels, Jul 24, 2008 In his video introduction submitted to last year’s AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum, Sen. Barack Obama laid out some of his personal history and connected it to why he’s running for president. It’s worth watching again now that he’s the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee. As he said: I worked […]
AFL-CIO Endorses Obama, Launches ‘Meet Barack Obama’
The AFL-CIO yesterday endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president. The AFL-CIO General Board, which voted to endorse Obama, includes presidents of all 56 unions in the AFL-CIO, as well as Executive Council members and representatives of state and local federations, trade departments and constituency groups. The General Board votes by per capita membership. In […]
Union Member-to-Member Walks Kick Off AFL-CIO 2008 Election Mobilization
by Seth Michaels, May 12, 2008 Hundreds of AFL-CIO union members in three states kicked off the first round of door-to-door, member-to-member walks this past weekend as part of the AFL-CIO’s massive get-out-the vote political mobilization program. They distributed fliers and educated union members about the real record of Sen. John McCain, including McCain’s health […]