Twenty years later and what have we learned from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)? Nearly 700,000 U.S. jobs have been lost or displaced, union density in the United States, Mexico and Canada fell and income inequality has increased. The AFL-CIO’s new report, NAFTA at 20, discusses how current U.S. trade policy has failed to … Continue reading
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL–CIO campaings for the re-authorization of federal Unemployment Benefits. Here is the link to the petition: via Tell Congress: Re-authorize Federal Unemployment Benefits.
China has been something of a problem for the American labor movement over the past, oh, half century: It\’s absorbed hundreds of thousands of formerly American jobs, playing a big role in the collapse of U.S. manufacturing. During that time, no sitting AFL-CIO president has seen fit to pay a visit — until this past … Continue reading
President Barack Obama told the largest U.S. labor group that his administration has helped improve job conditions and wages though there is more to be done. Since the financial crisis, U.S. businesses have created 7 million jobs and the automobile industry is leading a comeback of the nation’s manufacturing sector, Obama told the AFL-CIO convention … Continue reading