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President Joe Biden met Wednesday with the executive council of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest federation of trade unions, in an effort to shore up support from a critical constituency as he ...
Biden will visit the AFL-CIO’s Executive Council meeting in Washington, D.C.,… President Biden will meet with national union leaders on Wednesday, huddling with some of his top supporters as ...
Elizabeth H. Shuler (born 1970) is an American labor activist and, since August 5, 2021, President of the AFL–CIO. She is the first woman to be elected president of the federation. [1] [2] She was previously the first woman and (as of 2009) the youngest person to hold the position of Secretary-Treasurer.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said he was disappointed in President Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, a move that the union says will cost 1,000 ...
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The AFL-CIO was a major component of the New Deal Coalition that dominated politics into the mid-1960s. [11] Although it has lost membership, finances, and political clout since 1970, it remains a major player on the liberal side of national politics, with a great deal of activity in lobbying, grassroots organizing, coordinating with other liberal organizations, fund-raising, and recruiting ...
The Senate has sent a stopgap government funding bill to President Biden’s desk, averting a shutdown. The bill passed the House earlier in the day, wrapping up a whirlwind week on Capitol Hill ...
President Biden formally began his speech at 9:26 p.m. EST [3] on March 7, 2024; his speech was scheduled for 9 p.m. EST. [4] Like President Trump's 2019 State of the Union Address, Biden began the address without an introduction from the Speaker of the House, breaking with a SOTU custom.