Workday Minnesota: Presidential politics to head AFL-CIO council agenda: CHICAGO - Presidential politics, featuring a cavalcade of candidates, will top the agenda at the AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Chicago, Aug. 5-6.
Union presidents will discuss issues ranging from the right to organize to legislative plans. But the centerpiece will be a 'Working Families Presidential Forum,' to be broadcast nationwide on cable TV from Chicago's Navy Pier. All nine Democratic candidates are invited, to answer questions from workers nationwide.