http://www.opposingviews.com/users/afl-cio The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions. The AFL-CIO union movement represents 10.5 million members, including 2 million members in Working America, its new community affiliate. We are teachers and truck drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers—and more. The AFL-CIO was created in 1955 by the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In 1995, the biennial convention elected President John J. Sweeney, Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka and Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson. They have been re-elected three times since then, most recently in 2005 for four-year terms. Chavez-Thompson retired in September 2007, and the AFL-CIO Executive Council elected Arlene Holt Baker as executive vice president. Since its founding, the AFL-CIO and its affiliate unions have been the single most effective force in America for enabling working people to build better lives and futures for our families. http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/mccain-or-obama-who-will-end-the-financial-crisis The U.S. economy in 2008 has taken more sharp turns than a Formula 1 racer: the housing bubble, the frantically fluctuating stock market, government bank buyouts. As the newest president elect Barack Obama steps up to take the reigns of America's economy, his decisions will profoundly impact the financial futures of all Americans. Is hope alive in the Obama economic plan, or are there better solutions waiting to be explored? Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:58:45 -0600 http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/mccain-or-obama-who-will-end-the-financial-crisis http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/barack-obama-is-committed-to-creating-jobs By AFL-CIO President John Sweeney Today’s financial crisis is rocking Wall Street and Main Street. The stock market's tumble has wiped out $2 trillion in Americans' retirement savings. More than 760,000 Americans have lost their jobs so far this... AFL-CIO Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:47:13 -0500 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/barack-obama-is-committed-to-creating-jobs