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For those of you who can’t be here in Los Angeles for the AFL-CIO’s historic convention, we’re posting video highlights. Our Day 1 highlights include Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) crowd-rousing speech; the moving acceptance speech of Myrtle Wytbooi, winner of the George Meany–Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award; and a clip of a speech by Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, to the AFL-CIO 2013 Diversity Conference. Click here to see all the videos.
A wildfire that sparked in the hills east of San Francisco Bay more than doubled in size overnight to 1,500 acres, authorities said Monday, the latest front in California's summer-long fire fight.
A small Kentucky liberal arts college said Monday a $250 million donation that was among the largest gifts to higher education in U.S. history has been withdrawn. Centre College — known for hosting vice presidential debates in 2000 and 2012 — said in a news release Monday that the gift from the A.
“It is time,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said to the more than 1,600 delegates from 57 unions and allies from community partners, progressive groups and global unions, for a “new and stronger movement” for working people. In his keynote address this morning to the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention, Trumka said:What we have done yesterday cannot limit what we do tomorrow. Now is not the time to settle for small steps. If we are going to move forward, we have to challenge ourselves….This is America. It is time we value work—not wealth, not greed—work and the people who do the work.
A manhunt was underway Monday for an inmate who escaped from a Detroit courthouse by stabbing a sheriff's deputy with a makeshift shank, stealing his uniform and carjacking a minivan, authorities said.
Today, in a culmination of months of listening sessions and reflection, the AFL-CIO announced that any U.S. worker can join the labor movement and that the labor federation will develop several new pathways for workers to join the labor movement, either through affiliate unions, AFL-CIO's community affiliate Working America, worker centers or as students. In addition to opening the labor movement to all and the commitment to building enduring community labor partnerships, the AFL-CIO passed two other important resolutions in the Monday morning session at its quadrennial convention in Los Angeles.
A driver who allegedly struck and killed a 61-year-old veteran after a night of heavy drinking and then filmed a video begging viewers to never drink and drive was officially indicted Monday.
Welcome to the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention live blog. Comments will appear after moderation. See our comment guidelines here. You can participate in the discussion from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. EDT).Check out the live blog after the jump.
With the deck stacked against working people, it's more vital than ever the labor movement join forces with its community allies in a meaningful way. To achieve the goal of social and economic justice for all working families, the AFL-CIO today called for a strong commitment to building enduring partnerships with our communities. In a convention resolution, the AFL-CIO and its affiliates pledged to continue dialogue and analysis with community partnerships to create inclusive policies and programs that will strengthen our democracy and create a robust movement for working people.
Today, the following action sessions are taking place from 12:30-2 p.m. PDT. Check out the schedule after the jump, and don't forget to live-tweet using the hashtag #aflcio13.
