Global Crisis: AFL-CIO statements and press realeases
Updated list of weblinks to statements, press releases and other written crontributions published by the AFL-CIO following the deepening of the financial crisis in September 2008.
25/03/2009
This list is maintained by the TUAC Secretariat, please inform on any missing document, press release other written contribution at tuac@tuac.org . See also:
- Global crisis: list of trade union statements and press releases (main page)
- Global Crisis: Key websites and documents of the G20 Process
Webpages / blogs related to the financial crisis and/or public policy
- 25/03/2009 Trade Unions to G-20: Half Measures Will Not Fix Global Economy
- 25/03/2009 ‘It’s Time to Regulate All Global Financial Markets’
- 18/03/2009 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on the AIG Bonuses Oversight Hearing
- 18/03/2009 Here’s Why U.S. Job Loss Worse, Wider Than Previous Recessions
- 18/03/2009 Trade Experts: Renegotiate NAFTA
- 16/03/2009 Inequality Could Keep Economy from Full Recovery
- 16/03/2009 Brazil’s President, Sweeney Discuss Global Economy
- 13/03/2009 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to Meet with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney
- 06/03/2009 Bad, Bad, Bad Jobs Report: Unemployment at 8.1
Percent
- 05/03/2009 AFL-CIO Urges Stricter Bank Bailout Process, Hails NEA Affiliations
- 03/03/2009 AFL-CIO Executive Council: Economic Recovery Package Good First Step
- 02/03/2009 Time to Restructure Mortgages, Bank System
- 27/02/2009 State Workers, Taxpayers Caught in a Fiscal Vise
- 26/02/2009 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on President Obama's Budget
- 26/02/2009 Obama Unveils Budget for America’s Working Families
- 20/02/2009 Buy American Is About Building Jobs, Not Protectionism
- 19/02/2009 AFL-CIO and Canadian Labour Congress Call on Leaders to Work Together to Lay the Foundation for a Prosperous, Progressive North America
- 18/02/2009 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Obama Housing Plan
- 17/02/2009 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on the Signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- 13/02/2009 House Passes Compromise Economic Recovery
Bill
- 11/02/2009 Krugman: Think Beyond Stimulus to New
Economy
- 11/02/2009 State Aid, School Construction Must Be Restored in Recovery Package
- 11/02/2009 Functioning Banks, Fair Deal for Taxpayer Dollars
Should Be Treasury Goal
- 10/02/2009 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on The Financial Stability Plan
- 10/02/2009 blog.aflcio.org: Thinking Big About a New
Economy
- 09/02/2009 blog.aflcio.org: Buy America Will Create U.S. Jobs. We Need Lots of Jobs
- 06/02/2009 Statement by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer and Member
of White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board Richard
Trumka
- 05/02/2009 blog.aflcio.org: If CEOs Take Our Money, We Can Limit Their Pay
- 04/02/2009 Statement by AFL-CIO Pres. John Sweeney on Pres.
Obama's Reform of Executive Pay Limits
- 04/02/2009 blog.aflcio.org: Economists: Stimulus Package Needed Now
- 03/02/2009 blog.aflcio.org: Working Families Need Jobs; Senate Republicans Want Tax Cuts for Wealthy
- 02/02/2009 Statement by AFL-CIO Pres. John Sweeney Urging Passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- 02/02/2009 blog.aflcio.org: Trumka Nails Greedy CEOs on ‘World News Tonight’
- 30/01/2009 blog.aflcio.org: Sweeney: Health Care Reform Critical to Economic Recovery
- 29/01/2009 blog.aflcio.org: Recovery Bill ‘Good News for the Economy’
- 29/01/2009 blog.aflcio.org: Bailout Oversight Panel Recommends Eight Changes to Avoid Future Crises
- 29/01/2009 blog.aflcio.org: Engineers: Infrastructure Fails to Make the Grade
- 28/01/2009 blog.aflcio.org: Experts: Obama Must Reform U.S. Trade Policy
- 26/01/2009 blog.aflcio.org: AFT Mobilizes for Smart Investments in Economic Recovery Package
- 23/01/2009 blog.aflcio.org: New Report: 30 Million Service Jobs May Be Shipped Overseas
- 22/01/2009 (blog.aflcio.org) Steelworkers Launch ‘Make Our Future Work’ Website
- 22/01/2009 (blog.aflcio.org) Infrastructure, State Aid Mark Obama Recovery Package
- 21/01/2009 (blog.aflcio.org) Report: Infrastructure Investment Can Create Thousands of New Jobs
- 16/01/2009 (blog.aflcio.org) Survey: Public Supports Guaranteed Pensions
- 14/01/2009 (blog.aflcio.org) More Unemployed Workers, Fewer Jobs
- 13/01/2009 (blog.aflcio.org) Treasury Dept. Not Looking After Taxpayer Money
- 10/01/2009 (blog.aflcio.org) Obama Economic Plan: Create
Made-in-America Jobs
- 09/01/2009 (blog.aflcio.org) Disaster: Unemployment at 7.2
Percent. Real Rate 13.5 Percent
- 09/01/2009 AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on December Jobs
Report
- 23/12/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Bailout Billionaires, Kill the
Middle Class
- 22/12/2008 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney On the White House Task Force on Working Families
- 19/12/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Across the Country, Unions Are
Good for Workers, the Economy
- 17/12/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) 'Shockingly Little Oversight’ of
Taxpayer $$$ in Wall Street Bailout
- 17/12/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Most Workers Lose in Global
Economy
- 16/12/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Grim State Budgets Could Mean
$100 Billion Shortfall
- 12/12/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Unemployed in America
- 11/12/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) House Passes Emergency Loan for
Automakers
- 05/12/2008 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on the
November Jobs Report
- 04/12/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) If Auto Industry Goes Bankrupt,
Millions of U.S. Jobs Will Be Lost
- 25/11/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Global Wages Decline; U.S. Income
Gap Worst of Developed Countries
- 21/11/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) 12 Steps for Sober Lawmaking
- 21/11/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Corporate Class War: Pit Worker Against Worker
- 20/11/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Congress Bails on Auto Aid, Tells Detroit to Come Back with Plan
- 19/11/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) AFL-CIO Silvers Named by Congress to Panel Reporting on Bailout
- 18/11/2008 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Need for Congressional Action to Help American Auto Industry
- 17/11/2008 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on HUD's New Rule on Homebuilder Mortgages
- 13/11/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) AFL-CIO Top Leadership Moves to Continue Massive Mobilization to Ensure Economic Renewal
- 30/10/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Economy, Consumer Spending Sink. We Need a Recovery Package Now
- 30/10/2008 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Decline in GDP
- 10/10/2008 AFL-CIO: President Sweeney to Paulson: "Aggressive US Leadership" Needed at G-7 Meetings to Coordinate Global Response to Deepening Economic Crisis
- 10/10/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Global Unions Call for Fair Economic Recovery Plan
- 08/10/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Retirement Security: One of Biggest Casualties of Financial Crisis
- 03/10/2008 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on the State of the Economy and the Jobs Report
- 03/10/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Bailout Signed Into Law. Economic Recovery for Workers Stalls
- 29/09/2008 Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Bailout Legislation
- 29/09/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Wall Street Bailout Won't Work Without Economic Aid for Workers
- 22/09/2008 (blog.aflcio.org) Congress: No Blank Check on Bailout!