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Labor union faces payroll woes

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 labor talks with the union representing about 200 workers at the AFL-CIO, an umbrella organization of 64 international unions. Managers also ...

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