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** FILE ** President Obama warned about the dire consequences of failing to avert budget cuts Tuesday in front of 17 uniformed firefighters and law enforcement officers, who he said could lose their jobs. (Associated Press)

Labor unions less enthusiastic about Democrats ahead of midterm elections

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka praised the National Labor Relations Board's sweeping new rules approved Wednesday that make it easier for unions to gain members at companies that have long rebuffed them. (Associated Press)

AFL-CIO won’t endorse any Democrat with Obama economic team: Richard Trumka

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Arena Football League Players Union joins AFL-CIO

Associated Press

AFL-CIO: North Dakota’s worker death rate highest

By JOSH WOOD - Associated Press

Senator urges yes vote on minimum-wage increase

By KATIE TERHUNE - Associated Press

Richard L. Trumka, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, addresses members during the quadrennial AFL-CIO convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ** FILE **

Wage nominee at Labor also works for AFL-CIO

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

KEENE: Not your father’s AFL-CIO

By David Keene

EDITORIAL: A new labor coalition

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

TYRRELL: Richard Trumka’s menagerie

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Richard L. Trumka, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, addresses members during the quadrennial AFL-CIO convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ** FILE **

AFL-CIO gives gays, transgenders a nod at unionization

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Richard L. Trumka, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, addresses members during the quadrennial AFL-CIO convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ** FILE **

Blue-collar laborers rebel at AFL-CIO’s embrace of progressives

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A longshoreman readies a container for shipment at the APL Terminal at the Port of Los Angeles on Aug. 28, 2008. (Associated Press)

Obamacare casualty: Longshoremen cut ties with AFL-CIO, citing health plan

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

MIX: A Labor Day look at Obama’s gift to unions

By Mark Mix

**FILE** AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka

AFL-CIO’s Trumka: Obamacare still needs fixing

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama shakes hands with Michael Froman, his nominee for U.S. Trade Representative, during a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House on May 2, 2013. (Associated Press)

Anti-globalization groups take aim at proposed U.S.-Europe trade deal

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

**FILE** Illegal immigrants prepare to enter a bus after being processed at the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector headquarters on Aug. 9, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)

Labor union chief calls immigration bill dangerous, sees agency as ‘approval machine’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A road lined with vehicle barriers marking the U.S-Mexico border in New Mexico is the spartan territory for Border Patrol agents. (Associated Press)

Obama pressed to halt deportations as immigration debated

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

BERMAN: Raising the minimum wage is but a bad magic trick

By Richard Berman

**FILE** AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka

AFL-CIO strikes immigration deal with U.S. Chamber of Commerce

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands during a campaign stop on Saturday, March 17, 2012, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Troubles run deep for key labor union in D.C.

By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times