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- Who Pays for Minority Director Campaigns?
- Who Pays for Minority Director Campaigns?Who Pays?Another case of activisim with no cost. The AFSCME wants an action from a publicly traded company that will cost money to pursue recruiting and hiring. Okay. If the company decides to go along and add diversity to the board (I...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Three dozen arrested in UC protest Demonstrators demand raises for
- OAKLAND -- Demanding increased pay for University of California custodians, 36 custodians and UC students supporting the workers' cause were willingly arrested Thursday after blocking traffic for more than an hour with a midstreet sit-in outside the UC president's office in downtown Oakland. The demonstration by nearly...
- Research articles 2007-02-16
- Labor Since The Overpass
- Dearborn, Mich.--A suitable venue for contemplating organized labor's current disarray is here, at the footbridge over Miller Road. In 1937 it led to the main entrance of the foremost example of America's manufacturing might--the Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant, then the world's most fully integrated car-manufacturing facility, from blast...
- Research articles 2005-08-15
- Coalition for Fair & Independent Judiciary Calls on President Bush to Seek Advice & Consent of Senators; Americans Deserve Fair, Independent Nominee Who Will Protect Individual Rights, Freedoms.
- Byline: Communications Consortium WASHINGTON, July 1 AScribe Newswire -- Today, after Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, the Coalition for a Fair & Independent Judiciary released the following statement: "We extend our best wishes to Justice O'Connor, who ...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Investors Challenge Directors at Large Firms.
- By Ilene Aleshire, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 9--Pension funds, shareholder activists and labor groups have corporate boards in their cross hairs this year, stepping up campaigns to challenge the election of directors at some of the country's ...
- Research articles 2004-05-09
- Democratic Party's stars gather in D.C. to embrace Kerry
- WASHINGTON -- The Democratic Party came together to embrace its presidential standard-bearer on Thursday, aligning its diverse constituencies and past luminaries behind John Kerry's candidacy. Former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, 2000 nominee Al Gore and nearly all of Kerry's primary rivals linked hands at a sold-out dinner...
- Research articles 2004-03-26
- Kerry Keeps On Rolling.
- The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 8--WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry steamrolled his opponents once more yesterday, winning caucuses in Michigan and Washington state by wide margins as his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination scrambled to gain...
- Research articles 2004-02-08
- `Holy grail': Proxy ballot access missing from corporate governance list.(News)
- Byline: Barry B. Burr Proxy ballot access for shareholder nomination of directors - what some institutional investors consider the holy grail of corporate governance - was removed from proxy statements this season. The proposal doesn't have universal support among corporate governance...
- Research articles 2003-04-28
- McDermott and Institutional Investors Agree on Expatriate Review Process
- Business Editors SACRAMENTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 1, 2003 McDermott International, Inc. ("McDermott"), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ("AFSCME") Pension Plan and the California Public Employees' Retirement System ("CalPERS") today jointly announced they will work together to bring a fair resolution to the issue of whether...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Debate Continues About How Corporate Directors Should Be Elected.
- By Andrew Countryman, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 30--It is, to some corporate governance activists, the Holy Grail. For years, they have complained that elections for corporate directors are rigged and that it's all but impossible to dislodge...
- Research articles 2003-03-30
- Proxy contest: AFSCME fund leading battle over candidate nominations.(News)
- Byline: Barry B. Burr WASHINGTON - The pension fund of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed an appeal with the Securities and Exchange Commission over an opinion issued on shareholder proposals. AFSCME submitted proposals at six companies calling...
- Research articles 2003-03-17
- AFSCME to Picket North Oakland Medical Center
- PONTIAC, Mich., Sept. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Albert Garrett, president of Michigan Council 25 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees AFSCME, AFL-CIO, issued the following statement regarding informational picketing by AFSCME PONTIAC, Mich., Sept. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Albert Garrett, president of Michigan Council 25 of...
- Research articles 2005-09-26
- BART Seeks 60 Day Cooling Off Period For Its Smallest Union; AFSCME Actions Threatened Progress of All Negotiations at BART, BART GM Testifies
- Business/News Editors SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 3, 2001 Threats of a strike or walk out by BART's supervisors' union creates uncertainty for its ridership and hurts the negotiation process with its larger unions, BART's General Manager Thomas E. Margro testified today before a fact finding committee appointed by Governor...
- Research articles 2001-08-03
- AFSCME Calls Upon City of Detroit to Enter Into Partnership with University of Michigan, Union
- DETROIT, April 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Albert Garrett, president of Michigan Council 25 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees AFSCME, AFL-CIO, issued the following statement regarding the City of Detroit's budgetary situationDETROIT, April 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Albert Garrett, president of Michigan Council 25 of the...
- Research articles 2006-04-11
- Remarks at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees convention in Chicago, Illinois
- The President. Thank you. Thank you. Let me say, first of all, when I was standing up here with Gerry McEntee on my right and Bill Lucey on my left, I thought the best I could do is to ask you to give Clinton/Gore the same majority you gave McEntee/Lucey...
- Research articles 1996-06-24
- Labor-management bargaining in 1992
- The economy's inability to emerge from a 2-year recession and the failout from defense cuts contributed to difficult negotiations in 1992 for unions and management. Several key unionized industries were forced to downsize and lay off workers. For example, weakened demand for steel particularly from the sagging auto industry and...
- Research articles 1993-01-01
- Gang of three; meet the real Democratic Party bosses: teachers' unions, government employees and the AARP - Presidential candidate Bill Clinton panders to special interest groups
- Just before Bill Clinton's speech at the AFSCME convention last summer, the inside word was that the candidate would give a gloves-off, fire-in-the-belly performance. He'd speak the hard truths about cutting government payrolls; he'd talk about unpadding pensions; he'd talk about responsibility and sacrifice and biting the bullet. Clinton, it...
- Research articles 1992-09-01
- Time for access.(Editorial)(corporate proxy ballot)
- The Securities and Exchange Commission must open up the corporate proxy ballot to allow shareholders to nominate at least some directors and should do so, if possible, in time for 2007 annual meetings. Investor confidence has been shaken by what se The Securities and...
- Research articles 2006-10-02
- More good guys.(Editorial)(securities law)
- New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer rightly has won much recognition for trying to improve conditions for investors, but others also deserve recognition for their efforts on behalf of investors. The American Federation of State, County an New York State Attorney General Eliot...
- Research articles 2003-12-22
- Federal Court Rules Against AIG, Giving Shareholders More Clout
- In what is being considered the most significant shareholder victory in corporate governance in a decade, a federal appeals court in New York in September rejected a long-standing policy of the Securities and Exchange Commission's division of corporation In what is being considered the most significant shareholder victory in...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
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