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:: Monday, December 01, 2003 ::
AFL-CIO employees giving up two days' pay to avoid layoffs By Leigh Strope / AP
The AFL-CIO is enduring a budget shortfall so severe that its own workers are taking two days of unpaid leave to avoid layoffs, even as the labor federation attempts to mobilize its largest-ever political campaign.
Dubbed 'solidarity days,' the days off were agreed to this past summer in contract negotiations between managers and the union representing about 200 workers at the AFL-CIO, an umbrella organization of 64 international unions. Managers also have agreed to take the unpaid time.------------------------------------------- posted 6:31 AM :: reference link ::
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