During an AFL-CIO rally Tuesday, Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) said that American workers preferred candidate Obama, who disagreed with key free trade agreements, over President Obama. (0:33)
Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Me.) speaks to union members at an AFL-CIO rally against three new free trade agreements Congress is set to vote on. He says the agreements have the same template as NAFTA and will this hurt American jobs. (0:44)
AFL-CIO, Free Trade, Mike Michud, NAFTA, Representative in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka argues that if Republicans want to reform National Mediation Board (NMB) elections so that workers who do not vote are automatically counted as voting against the formation of unions, then Republicans should be willing to follow that same system in their own political elections.
AFL-CIO, NMB elections, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka expresses vexation with Congress for not passing a FAA temporary extension two weeks ago before so many financial losses were incurred (0:53)
AFL-CIO, FAA, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka describes how the FAA shutdown exemplifies how Tea Party Republicans are making the government dysfunctional for their own political agenda (1:06)
AFL-CIO, FAA, GOP, job crisis, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka criticizes National Football League owners for the impending lockout that Trumka says will affect over 200,000 workers. (2:11)
AFL-CIO, NFL lockout, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka tells reporters at the National Press Club that he is opposed to pack journalism, which he believes limits journalists’ ability to perform investigative work, and said that “networks like Fox… aren’t really networks.” (1:15)
AFL-CIO, fox news, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says that he supports workers’ ability to negotiate a payroll and to obtain a fair standard of living. (0:17)
AFL-CIO, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says that the thousands of workers who die on the job every year in the USA should make Americans “outraged when workers get killed and slaughtered in this country.” (3:20)
AFL-CIO, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says that President Obama has put the country on the road to recovery, but that “the scale is not there.” (3:17)
AFL-CIO, President Obama, richard trumka, stimulus in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka defends the pro-labor protests in Wisconisn and elsewhere, saying that ordinary people feel that state budget deficit proposals have “gone too far.” (0:50)
AFL-CIO, labor protests, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka tells reporters that the public’s interests are not well represented in U.S. election campaigns, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case. (2:02)
AFL-CIO, Citizens United, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told the National Press Club Friday that even if a politician claims to be a friend of the workers’ movement, the organization will only spend its money on those who take action. (0:53)
AFL-CIO, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka dismissed the Republica’s budget proposal Thursday, saying that the money saved simply goes back to the rich while taking benefits away from the poor. (2:10)
AFL-CIO, deficit reduction, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka criticized deficit hawks as being misguided and distracting from the jobs crisis and said that deficit reduction should be a shared sacrifice, vowing to fight Medicare and Social Security cuts. (4:12)
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters at the National Press Club that the AFL-CIO would spend money to advance workers’ rights at a higher level than before. (1:42)
AFL-CIO, labor movement, richard trumka in Audio AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka spoke today at the National Press Club in support of the labor movement in America, saying that it spreads the message of a “national community,” and praised the pro-labor demonstrators in the Midwest. (2:40)
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