AFL-CIO

Berkshire holders trust Buffett on health outlook

2012-05-05 11:56:00

Warren Buffett insists that he's feeling good after his recent prostate cancer diagnosis. Based on the questions he got at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, shareholders are taking him at his word. Despite the fact that Buffett just disclosed his...

Metro awards rail contract to Japanese firm despite union protests

2012-04-30 16:35:54

L.A. County transit leaders award rail car contract to Japanese firm

2012-05-01 00:00:00

In a break with Los Angeles' powerful organized labor movement, county transportation leaders on Monday awarded a crucial $890-million rail car contract to a Japanese firm that unions complained would create fewer jobs than a competitor and might...

MTA, in a switch, does right on rail cars

2012-05-01 13:17:00

It is in the nature of politicians to keep making the same mistakes over and over again, especially if they're the kind of mistakes favored by a lawmaker's key financial backers. Yet the award of an important rail-car contract Monday by the Metropolitan...

MTA's rail car reasoning

2012-05-03 00:00:00

It is in the nature of politicians to keep making the same mistakes over and over again, especially if they're the kind of mistakes favored by the lawmakers' key financial backers. So the award of an important rail car contract Monday by the...

U.S. CEO's pay 231 times higher than that of average workers

2012-05-02 16:25:00

So much for the new austerity. The average U.S. chief executive earned more than $11 million last year in salary, stock options and other compensation, according to a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. That’s about 231 times more, on...

Let's beef up Social Security benefits instead of cutting them

2012-04-25 00:00:00

Advocates for strengthening Social Security have come to dread the release of the annual report of the program's trustees. That's because the event has become the basis for more hand-wringing about Social Security's fiscal condition and calls to cut...

Obama clears way for Colombia free trade pact

2012-04-16 00:00:00

CARTAGENA, Colombia — Despite strong opposition from his allies in the U.S. labor movement, President Obama said Sunday that he trusted Colombian authorities to improve protections for workers and union leaders as he cleared the final obstacle for...

Santorum is big labor? Pa. union leaders say 'ridiculous'

2012-02-17 15:41:00

As Rick Santorum's poll numbers rise, so do the Mitt Romney attacks. This week the Romney campaign, directly and through surrogates, have attacked Rick Santorum as “big labor’s favorite senator.” But that’s not how Pennsylvania...

Dow hits 13,000 for first time since 2008 crisis

2012-02-21 08:38:00

Wall Street’s bulls have reason to celebrate: The Dow Jones industrial average has crossed the 13,000 mark for the first time since the financial crisis after European leaders reached a new deal to prop up the Greek economy. The Dow first crossed...

Dow Jones hits 13,000 but falls back a bit at close

2012-02-21 13:42:00

This post has been corrected, as indicated below. The Dow Jones industrial average crested 13,000 points for the first time since before the financial crisis, but failed to reach the milestone at Tuesday's close. � The blue chip index's latest surge has...

Why Egypt doesn't trust us

2012-03-07 00:00:00

Now that seven American pro-democracy workers have been allowed to post bail and return to the United States, perhaps we can examine what the U.S. was up to in Egypt using reason instead of patriotic emotion. The Egyptian furor over such seemingly...

Richard W. Bloomingdale is president of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO , and Richard L. Trumka is president of the national AFL-CIO.

2012-05-02 05:09:00

People weave in and out of one another as they wind red twine around a Maypole during a gathering of Occupy DC at Meridan Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park in Washington, DC . Organized by the Occupy DC Labor Committee, Anarchist Alliance DC Network, Industrial Workers of the World,

2012-05-01 00:00:00

Among Md. Gov. Martin O'Malley's activities during a visit to Hagerstown Monday was his address to a Workers Memorial Day ceremony at the Central Maryland AFL-CIO Council office on East Franklin Street.

2012-04-24 00:00:00