West Virginia AFL–CIO

Affiliate of the AFL–CIO
  • United States
Members
80,000
Key people
Joshua D. Sword, presidentAffiliationsAFL–CIOWebsitewww.wvaflcio.org

West Virginia AFL–CIO is the West Virginia state affiliate of the AFL–CIO. The West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL–CIO, was created in 1957.

It has about 80,000 members. It supports health care reform and helped to organize a rally in favor of reform on August 2, 2009.[1] It also participated in a rally promoting the "Employee Free Choice Act" and drawing attention to job losses in West Virginia in March 2009.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Nyden, Paul J. (August 2, 2009). "Unions rally for health-care reform". Charleston Gazette. Retrieved 2009-08-04.
  2. ^ "Labor organization, workers to rally at Capitol Wednesday". Charleston Daily Mail. March 3, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-04.
  3. ^ Knezevich, Alison (March 5, 2009). "Crowd, leaders' cry at rally is 'Buy American'". The Charleston Gazette. Retrieved 2009-08-04.
  • Hohmann, George (January 31, 2009). "W.Va. labor unions pick up members in 2008, report says". Charleston Daily Mail. Retrieved 2009-08-04.
  • West Virginia AFL–CIO

External links

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