Business
The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest affiliation of unions, is trying to create a political coalition with progressive groups to counter conservative successes.
Sept. 6, 2013
Sports
In a major development in the world of organized labor, the Teamsters Union is seeking to reaffiliate with the AFL-CIO, both organizations disclosed Thursday.
Oct. 23, 1987
Archives
Steven Brill, author of “The Teamsters,” published in 1978, and president and editor-in-chief of the American Lawyer newspapers group “Nothing better expresses the weakness, indeed the desperation, of both the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters, (than) that they are reuniting.
Nov. 1, 1987
AFL-CIO seeks political alliance with progressive groups
World & Nation
Touching off what figures to be a fierce, historic battle for the leadership of America’s struggling labor movement, 73-year-old Lane Kirkland announced Tuesday that he would seek another two-year term this fall as president of the AFL-CIO.
May 10, 1995
The decision of the leaders of the 1.6-million-member Teamsters Union to rejoin the 12.6-million-member AFL-CIO is indeed another significant milestone in labor history, and it will bring some pragmatic gains for all of labor and relatively few negative effects.
Nov. 3, 1987
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.
Sept. 8, 2013
AFL-CIO convention kicks off in Los Angeles
AFL-CIO delegates ended their national convention in Anaheim on Thursday after endorsing competency testing of public school teachers for the first time.
Nov. 1, 1985