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When many Americans can’t afford basic health care, is one insurance company executive worth $744 million? That’s the question demonstrators asked Tuesday outside the headquarters of UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest insurers.
Videographer Howard Kling captured the dramatic moment at the AFL-CIO convention when UNITE HERE! rejoined the federation — and spoke with convention center workers who were denied the right to join their fellow union members on stage for the historic announcement.
From jobs to health care, immigration reform and increasing diversity in the labor movement, Minnesota union members reflect on the issues they discussed at the national AFL-CIO convention.
Union leaders and staffers at the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh are confident Congress will pass the Employee Free Choice Act, but there are great differences on what its details will be and when that will happen.
John Fetterman is the unique mayor of an unique town in Pennsylvania’s Monongahela Valley — an area once known as the cradle of U.S. industrial might. He’s the mayor of Braddock, Pa., a small steel mill town some folks in the Mon Valley call “Hell.”
Service Employees International Union Local 26 is sponsoring a march and door-to-door mobilization Sunday, Sept. 20, to demand action on immigration reform.
In a dramatic moment on the last day of the convention, UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm announced his 265,000-member union is rejoining the AFL-CIO.
On Day Four of the AFL-CIO convention, delegates elected new national leaders for the labor movement.
Workday Minnesota video reports from the AFL-CIO convention.
UNITE HERE, one of the unions that led the revolt to form the Change to Win labor federation four years ago, has rejoined the AFL-CIO – and leaders of the Twin Cities local couldn’t be happier.
