AFL-CIO Leaders Assemble This Week to Talk Jobs, Strategize

David Moberg, In These Times, March 1, 2010 When the AFL-CIO executive council meets in Orlando, Florida, this week, federation officers and affiliated union presidents will be focusing on jobs, especially the politics and legislative maneuvering involved in creating and saving jobs. Like much that organized labor pushes for these days, especially healthcare reform, the jobs effort will walk a narrow path between supporting what Obama and the Democrats are trying to do in the face of Republican opposition ... and demanding that the Democrats do more to help suffering or anxious working and middle-class citizens. ... AFL-CIO