- published: 10 Sep 2013
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AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: Sen. Elizabeth Warren Full Speech
Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses the delegates of the AFL-CIO 2013 Convention. www.aflcio20...
published: 10 Sep 2013
AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: Sen. Elizabeth Warren Full Speech
AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: Sen. Elizabeth Warren Full Speech
Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses the delegates of the AFL-CIO 2013 Convention. www.aflcio2013.org. Follow the AFL-CIO: http://www.aflcio.org http://facebook.com/aflcio http://twitter.com/aflcio- published: 10 Sep 2013
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AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: US President Barack Obama Addresses the AFL-CIO
President Barack Obama addresses the unions of the AFL-CIO at the 2013 Convention.
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published: 09 Sep 2013
AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: US President Barack Obama Addresses the AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: US President Barack Obama Addresses the AFL-CIO
President Barack Obama addresses the unions of the AFL-CIO at the 2013 Convention. Follow the AFL-CIO: http://www.aflcio.org http://facebook.com/aflcio http://twitter.com/aflcio http://youtube.com/AFLCIONow- published: 09 Sep 2013
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AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: Sen. Elizabeth Warren Addresses the Delegates
Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses the delegates of the AFL-CIO 2013 Convention. www.aflcio20...
published: 09 Sep 2013
AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: Sen. Elizabeth Warren Addresses the Delegates
AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: Sen. Elizabeth Warren Addresses the Delegates
Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses the delegates of the AFL-CIO 2013 Convention. www.aflcio2013.org.- published: 09 Sep 2013
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Richard Trumka Remarks at 2012 Democratic National Convention
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published: 06 Sep 2012
author: DNCConvention2012
Richard Trumka Remarks at 2012 Democratic National Convention
Richard Trumka Remarks at 2012 Democratic National Convention
- published: 06 Sep 2012
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- author: DNCConvention2012
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Longshoremen Union Quits AFL-CIO Over Health Care & Immigration Policies
Longshoremen Union Quits AFL-CIO Over Health Care & Immigration Policies...
published: 03 Sep 2013
Longshoremen Union Quits AFL-CIO Over Health Care & Immigration Policies
Longshoremen Union Quits AFL-CIO Over Health Care & Immigration Policies
Longshoremen Union Quits AFL-CIO Over Health Care & Immigration Policies- published: 03 Sep 2013
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In Historic Move, AFL-CIO Expands Ranks With Vote to Include Non-Union, Immigrant, Low-Wage Workers
http://www.democracynow.org - In what could be a major development for worker rights, the ...
published: 12 Sep 2013
In Historic Move, AFL-CIO Expands Ranks With Vote to Include Non-Union, Immigrant, Low-Wage Workers
In Historic Move, AFL-CIO Expands Ranks With Vote to Include Non-Union, Immigrant, Low-Wage Workers
http://www.democracynow.org - In what could be a major development for worker rights, the AFL-CIO has announced a new plan to enlist tens of millions of non-union workers, including immigrants and low-wage workers who have traditionally not been part of its federation. The move comes as unions face a major decline in membership and have seen their collective bargaining rights slashed in former union strongholds like Wisconsin. Meanwhile, non-union workers at Wal-Mart, and fast food chains like McDonalds, have gained momentum in their efforts to push for better pay by holding one-day strikes. We're joined by Cristina Tzintzun, executive director of the Workers Defense Project in Texas, who just attended the AFL-CIO Quadrennial Convention. Democracy Now!, is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on 1,200+ TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch it live 8-9am ET at http://www.democracynow.org. FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: @democracynow Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/democracynow Listen on SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/democracynow Daily Email News Digest: http://www.democracynow.org/subscribe Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today, visit http://www.democracynow.org/donate/YT- published: 12 Sep 2013
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Unions Ensure Workers Have a Voice on the Job
Workers in a variety of jobs talk about what unions do for them, their families and their ...
published: 06 Feb 2012
author: AFLCIONow
Unions Ensure Workers Have a Voice on the Job
Unions Ensure Workers Have a Voice on the Job
Workers in a variety of jobs talk about what unions do for them, their families and their communities.- published: 06 Feb 2012
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- author: AFLCIONow
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AFL-CIO Calls Obamacare "Highly Disruptive" To Union Health Plans - Stuart Varney
AFL-CIO Calls Obamacare "Highly Disruptive" To Union Health Plans - Stuart Varney...
published: 12 Sep 2013
AFL-CIO Calls Obamacare "Highly Disruptive" To Union Health Plans - Stuart Varney
AFL-CIO Calls Obamacare "Highly Disruptive" To Union Health Plans - Stuart Varney
AFL-CIO Calls Obamacare "Highly Disruptive" To Union Health Plans - Stuart Varney- published: 12 Sep 2013
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Clinton Praises AFL-CIO for Creating Green Jobs
AFT President Randi Weingarten joins President Bill Clinton and Richard Trumka to kick off...
published: 19 Apr 2013
author: AFTHQ
Clinton Praises AFL-CIO for Creating Green Jobs
Clinton Praises AFL-CIO for Creating Green Jobs
AFT President Randi Weingarten joins President Bill Clinton and Richard Trumka to kick off an extensive energy-efficient retrofitting of the AFL-CIO headquar...- published: 19 Apr 2013
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- author: AFTHQ
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AFL-CIO 2013 Convention - President Richard Trumka Keynote Speech
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gives his keynote speech to the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention i...
published: 09 Sep 2013
AFL-CIO 2013 Convention - President Richard Trumka Keynote Speech
AFL-CIO 2013 Convention - President Richard Trumka Keynote Speech
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gives his keynote speech to the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles, CA. Follow the AFL-CIO: http://www.aflcio.org http://facebook.com/aflcio http://twitter.com/aflcio http://youtube.com/AFLCIONow- published: 09 Sep 2013
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Talking About "Bullying Union Bosses" at RNC
Speakers at the 2012 Republican National Convention talk about bullying union bosses....
published: 05 Sep 2012
author: AFLCIONow
Talking About "Bullying Union Bosses" at RNC
Talking About "Bullying Union Bosses" at RNC
Speakers at the 2012 Republican National Convention talk about bullying union bosses.- published: 05 Sep 2012
- views: 1279
- author: AFLCIONow
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Senator Elizabeth Warren - 2013 AFL-CIO Convention - 9/8/2013 FULL SPEECH
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Gives Keynote Speech at AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles,...
published: 10 Sep 2013
Senator Elizabeth Warren - 2013 AFL-CIO Convention - 9/8/2013 FULL SPEECH
Senator Elizabeth Warren - 2013 AFL-CIO Convention - 9/8/2013 FULL SPEECH
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Gives Keynote Speech at AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles, CA, on 9/8/2013, after introduction from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumpka.- published: 10 Sep 2013
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Solidarity Charters: An Interview With IAM President Tom Buffenbarger At AFL-CIO Convention
At the AFL-CIO 2013 convention the International Association of Machinists introduced reso...
published: 13 Sep 2013
Solidarity Charters: An Interview With IAM President Tom Buffenbarger At AFL-CIO Convention
Solidarity Charters: An Interview With IAM President Tom Buffenbarger At AFL-CIO Convention
At the AFL-CIO 2013 convention the International Association of Machinists introduced resolutions to the constitution that would eliminate "solidarity charters" and remove unions such as the SEIU and Teamsters from affiliating with labor councils and state federations. IAM president Thomas Buffenbarger talked about this and other issues at the convention. The conventions were never discussed or voted on at the convention although IAM delegates were angry that they had been prevented from having a discussion on their proposed changes. For more on this issue go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBDZL115Te4&feature;=youtu.be For more video on the convention go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJBnEiF-6fs&feature;=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njQDgKHa7Es&feature;=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQcxABeHzr0&feature;=youtu.be Production of Labor Video Project www.laborvideo.org- published: 13 Sep 2013
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Stagehands circa 1960 AFL-CIO Americans at Work Series
more at http://quickfound.net/ Public domain film from the Prelinger Archive, slightly cro...
published: 21 Mar 2013
author: Jeff Quitney
Stagehands circa 1960 AFL-CIO Americans at Work Series
Stagehands circa 1960 AFL-CIO Americans at Work Series
more at http://quickfound.net/ Public domain film from the Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and m...- published: 21 Mar 2013
- views: 252
- author: Jeff Quitney
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Senator Elizabeth Warren - 2013 AFL-CIO Convention - Full Speech
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Gives Keynote Speech at AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles,...
published: 12 Sep 2013
Senator Elizabeth Warren - 2013 AFL-CIO Convention - Full Speech
Senator Elizabeth Warren - 2013 AFL-CIO Convention - Full Speech
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Gives Keynote Speech at AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles, CA, on 9/8/2013, after introduction from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumpka. Elizabeth Warren: "The American People Know That the System Is Rigged Against Them" Over the past few years, it appears more and more that Eliizabeth Warren represents in body, spirit and tenacity the change Barack Obama promised in 2008. Ironically, Obama became changed by Washington into a DC insider, stiff arming Warren's brand of consumer and middle class populism. Meanwhile, after Larry Summers and Tim Geithner persuaded Obama not to select Warren as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which she designed, Warren went on to defeat Scott Brown (who had won the late Ted Kennedy's seat in a special election). Now, she has seized the mantle that Obama promised. What is most promising about Warren is that she is disciplined in the battles she takes on. She is well aware that a politician that helter skelter picks fights on a daily basis becomes marginalized. Instead, Warren has, for instance, taken on Eric Holder through formal correspondence for not thoroughly investigating or prosecuting those who committed Wall Street fraud. Warren is not looking to make headlines everyday; she is looking to correct injustices through building her gravitas as a spokesperson for the middle class. Take her appearance at the AFL-CIO convention last week which you can watch here, and which received a rousing reception. "If we don't fight we can't win," she told the union members and supporters, "but if we fight we will win." Now, Obama is still spouting that sort of language now and then, but he seems to be going through the rhetorical motions, while being fully aware that -- to the contrary -- the people whom he is fighting for are on Wall Street and in the military-industrial-complex, as well as the likes of Monsanto. He has somehow rationalized that this is good for the nation. You can't beat the headline of Talking Points Memo for change that matters, "Elizabeth Warren Slams Supreme Court As 'Subsidiary Of Big Business'" But her remarks were much more than progressive red meat that called out the wrongs inflicted on the middle class, referring to them in specifics (in contrast to Obama who generally believes that there is no contradiction between the hubris of generalized lofty rhetoric and following the Pied Piper of K Street, the DC political elite, and the 1%). Warren didn't just give pro forma support to unions, she defended pensions (including the one received by her union member brother), collective bargaining, living wages, the social safety network, and the interests of the middle class vs. the "corporate capture of the federal courts." "The Chamber of Commerce," Warren said, "is now a major player in the Supreme Court and its win rate has now risen to 70 percent of all the cases it supports." "Justices Alito and Roberts...[are] the most anti-consumer justices in this entire time," she stated with pointed concern. Of course, she didn't mince words about the lack of accountablity among banks too big to fail and how they have grown exponentially since the crash of 2007-2008, rather than being cut down to size. Warren even touched the third rail for most progressive elected officials in DC: she slammed free trade agreements and the lack of transparency in negotiations. Why are such negotiations secret? Warren asked: because the American people would oppose treaties like the Trans Pacific Partnership (which is now reportedly enacting an even higher level of secrecy to its multi-national meetings). That is why the negotiations, she argues, are not conducted in the disinfectant of sunlight. "Wall Street will fight us, but the American people are on our side," Warren told the AFL-CIO convention attendees. The now senior senator from Massachusetts is breaking the golden rule of Democrats in Washington: don't go populist and don't speak too much anti-corporate rhetoric. Warren, nearing the conclusion of her speech, points out that Obama was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2012 with a mandate, as he was in 2008. Obama may be betraying his mandate, but Warren is picking up the baton of change and seizing it. We have a few other truthsayers such as Bernie Sanders. But Elizabeth Warren has the presence, the poise, the appearance and the charisma to change the conversation on the public policy dictated by the DC insider conventional wisdom of both parties. She can break through to the middle class that has been manipulated by the Koch brothers' front organizations and corporate Democratic talking points. That is what makes her such a game changing threat to the Republicans and the White House alike.- published: 12 Sep 2013
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AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: Hareth Andrade-Ayala, "America"
DREAMer Hareth Andrade-Ayala reads her poem "America" at the AFL-CIO 2013 Convention in Lo...
published: 11 Sep 2013
AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: Hareth Andrade-Ayala, "America"
AFL-CIO 2013 Convention: Hareth Andrade-Ayala, "America"
DREAMer Hareth Andrade-Ayala reads her poem "America" at the AFL-CIO 2013 Convention in Los Angeles, CA. Follow the AFL-CIO: http://www.aflcio.org http://facebook.com/aflcio http://twitter.com/aflcio- published: 11 Sep 2013
- views: 313