<b>Full coverage:</b> AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles
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Naquasia LeGrand was an apolitical fast-food worker before meeting a union organizer. Now she’s one of the most vocal backers of a movement to double the $7.50-an-hour minimum.
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The quadrennial convention of the AFL-CIO. the nation’s largest labor federation, has attracted a diverse crowd from across the nation and around the world to the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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On the first full day of the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles, labor leaders were expected to debate and vote on a resolution that they hope will bring into the fold new non-union groups, adding hundreds of thousands of new members.
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Among the issues being discussed at the quadrennial AFL-CIO convention this week in Los Angeles is how to make the labor movement more relevant.
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The quadrennial AFL-CIO convention kicks off in Los Angeles on Sunday with the aim to coalesce unions and progressive groups who are here to strategize ways to reinvigorate the flailing labor movement.
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The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest affiliation of unions, is trying to create a political coalition with progressive groups to counter conservative successes.
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama will not travel to California next week so that he can press his case to members of Congress for a military strike against Syria, the White House announced.
