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but here he was the storied president of the afl, cio, which is which many people know is the large umbrella federation of many unions in the united states representing 12 million workers in. so many industries. but while ben was working with the afl, cio he saw what you chronicled. so in your book just factory after factory closing as they moved operations, either south or down to mexico or even further abroad and that broke. that broke ben. and when he came back to portland, maine, his hometown, he spent a year really just grappling what he had witnessed in america and determined to prove that capitalism and labor could unite, could work together and be a force of good and rebuild community that he had seen in the places industry had left you create good jobs and create amazing products and so so he created this company so. whitney and waxman together built this company american roots that creates all american sourced apparel. right? right. it was it's it's just extraordinary this how much this company is like a unicorn. right. it's they they invited a union in, right. or they they wanted
but here he was the storied president of the afl, cio, which is which many people know is the large umbrella federation of many unions in the united states representing 12 million workers in. so many industries. but while ben was working with the afl, cio he saw what you chronicled. so in your book just factory after factory closing as they moved operations, either south or down to mexico or even further abroad and that broke. that broke ben. and when he came back to portland, maine, his...
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fred made history as the first black man to hold the position of secretary-treasurer of the afl-cio.rship, the afl-cio has made great strides, afge please give a warm welcome, an afge welcome, to my friend, my brother, the secretary-treasurer, fred redmond. [applause] >> afge is in the house. first of all, i want to thank my brother everett kelley for his leadership. everett is the inspiration of working families everywhere. there's no better advocate for federal workers and it is an honor to call you my brother. thank you, brother. good afternoon, siblings brothers and sisters. ,we are all gathered here today, we got folks from different unions and different walks of life to support federal employees. that's what we are here for. we are here to call on congress to do what is fair. we are not here to ask them to do us any favors. we are not here to ask them to be kind. we are here to ask them to do their jobs and do what is fair. that's all. and we make that ask. we hold our heads up high. we can stick our chest out and make that ask because union members love this country. federal e
fred made history as the first black man to hold the position of secretary-treasurer of the afl-cio.rship, the afl-cio has made great strides, afge please give a warm welcome, an afge welcome, to my friend, my brother, the secretary-treasurer, fred redmond. [applause] >> afge is in the house. first of all, i want to thank my brother everett kelley for his leadership. everett is the inspiration of working families everywhere. there's no better advocate for federal workers and it is an...
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the afl-cio is the largest federation of labor unions in the u.s., representing some 12.5 million people. the special counsel investigating president biden's handling of classified documents after his vice presidency has declined to charge biden despite finding the president "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials." in his report, special counsel robert hur said a jury would be sympathetic to biden and would view him as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." hur made several other references to biden's memory, which he called "significantly limited." biden later responded to questions about hur's comments. pres. biden: my memory is fine. look at what i have done since i have become president. none of you thought i could get the things past i got past. how did that happen? i guess i just forgot what was going on. nermeen: later in the same news conference, biden mistakenly referred to egypt's abdel fattah el-sisi as the president of mexico. the supreme court appears poised to overturn colorado's ruling which disqualified trump from the primary ballot for engaging
the afl-cio is the largest federation of labor unions in the u.s., representing some 12.5 million people. the special counsel investigating president biden's handling of classified documents after his vice presidency has declined to charge biden despite finding the president "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials." in his report, special counsel robert hur said a jury would be sympathetic to biden and would view him as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor...
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it's the afl-cio index funds.hey're asking apple to prepare a transparency report and disclose ethical guidelines that apple has adopted regarding the use of ai. what's your take on this? apple's actually asking shareholders to vote no on this because they're worried about revealing some of their competitive position. >> yeah. i think it's an important ask. we're going to start to see even more scandals around these ai generation tools because they spend so much time acting on their own, forming their own opinions. i think without transparency, it's going to be tough for users to trust the companies. apple trust is really the core thing that you're selling alongside obviously functional devices. so i think this is an important ask. i think we should see more companies come forward and be more transparent about the way that this stuff works. like you mentioned, i think apple is asking voters to turn it down. i don't think there's a lot of chance that this is going to pass, but maybe it will set off alarm bells insi
it's the afl-cio index funds.hey're asking apple to prepare a transparency report and disclose ethical guidelines that apple has adopted regarding the use of ai. what's your take on this? apple's actually asking shareholders to vote no on this because they're worried about revealing some of their competitive position. >> yeah. i think it's an important ask. we're going to start to see even more scandals around these ai generation tools because they spend so much time acting on their own,...
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one in particular comes from the afl-cio equity index funds about ai transparency basically asking apple to put out a transparency report out of how they tackle ethics in artificial intelligence products they're working on. apple recommended shareholders reject the proposal, they have ethical guidelines in place and the request was overly broad and could put out information about products they don't want to announce quite yet. that did get knocked down. >> steve, appreciate it. that's steve kovach. more trades ahead. (♪♪) grace didn't believe in magic. but her daughter was happy to prove her wrong. you were made to dream about it for years. we were made to help you book it in minutes. >>> i'm courtney reagan with your headlines. president biden will sign an executive data to protect data from hostile companies. brokers who trade data to countries that have a record of, quote, collecting and misusing data on americans. it focuses on sensitive information such as biometrics and financial data. >>> about a quarter of gaza's population, over 500,000 people, are a step away from famine as aid
one in particular comes from the afl-cio equity index funds about ai transparency basically asking apple to put out a transparency report out of how they tackle ethics in artificial intelligence products they're working on. apple recommended shareholders reject the proposal, they have ethical guidelines in place and the request was overly broad and could put out information about products they don't want to announce quite yet. that did get knocked down. >> steve, appreciate it. that's...
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he gives us a speech at the afl-cio. no, they hadn't merged at the afl convention in san francisco, and it goes. some of us remember humphrey this way on and on. and on and on. and humphrey's convention was a great speech and says to him after it, hubert, speech doesn't have to be to be immortal immortal, which was a great piece of advice the other thing. those of us came of age during, the second wave of feminism. remember the phrase the personal is the political. and here is a really profound of it. so it's the second week of july, 1948. it's like 9000 degrees in philadelphia with that kind of east coast, 110% humidity like today. and like today in washington and the put the democratic is heading for this boiler over on the issue of civil rights. truman doesn't to engage the issue he's afraid south will leave the southerners the future dixiecrats are saying you make any move toward civil rights and we're out the door. we have our railroad cars waiting to take us to birmingham to have our convention. and humphrey knows
he gives us a speech at the afl-cio. no, they hadn't merged at the afl convention in san francisco, and it goes. some of us remember humphrey this way on and on. and on and on. and humphrey's convention was a great speech and says to him after it, hubert, speech doesn't have to be to be immortal immortal, which was a great piece of advice the other thing. those of us came of age during, the second wave of feminism. remember the phrase the personal is the political. and here is a really profound...
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the first black man to hold a position of secretary-treasurer of the afl-cio.fge welcome, to my friend, my brother for the reverend secretary-treasurer. >> afge is in the house. >> first of all i want to thank my brother everett kelley for his leadership. everett is an inspirational for working from february, and there's no better advocate for federal workers than ever, it's an honor to call you my brother. thank you, brother. >> thank you. >> so good afternoon, sisters, brothers and sisters. look, we all gathered here today come with good here folks different unions from different walks of life to support federal employees. that's what we're here for. [applause] that is what we're here for. we're here to call on congress to do what is fair. that's all. we are not here to ask them to do us no favors. we're not here to ask them to be kind. we are here to ask them to do their job and do what is there. that's all. and we make that come we holder heads up high. we can stick are just out i i because union members love this country. federal employees love this countr
the first black man to hold a position of secretary-treasurer of the afl-cio.fge welcome, to my friend, my brother for the reverend secretary-treasurer. >> afge is in the house. >> first of all i want to thank my brother everett kelley for his leadership. everett is an inspirational for working from february, and there's no better advocate for federal workers than ever, it's an honor to call you my brother. thank you, brother. >> thank you. >> so good afternoon, sisters,...