AFSCME is part of the AFL–CIO, which has its own regional representatives in Baltimore.
He was generally disillusioned by his union's apparent capitulation to the anti-communism of the AFL–CIO and to the desires of local politicians.
1995 AFL season | AFL-CIO | AFL Grand Final | 2011 AFL Rising Star | CIO | AFL Rising Star | American Football League (AFL) | 2010 AFL Rising Star | AFL Premiership 2006 | AFL Cairns | 2012 AFL Rising Star | 2009 AFL season | 2000 AFL Rising Star | 1995 AFL Rising Star | 1994 AFL Rising Star | AFL Queensland | AFL finals system | AFL–CIO | 2008 AFL Draft | 2001 AFL Rising Star | 1999 AFL season | 1993 AFL Rising Star | Tasmanian AFL Bid | New York Yankees (1940 AFL) | List of VFL/AFL players of Indigenous Australian descent | AFL Tribunal | 2011 AFL Draft | 2008 AFL Rising Star | 2007 AFL Grand Final | 1991 AFL Grand Final |
The Texans set up offices in the Mercantile National Bank Building, while Jerry Foss headquartered the AFL offices out of Dallas, as well.
The 1961 American Football League All-League Team was selected by AFL players and published by the Sporting News.
He later had a brief stint with the Austin Wranglers of the Arena Football League (AFL) and then tried his hand at rugby league, playing for the Jacksonville Axemen in Jacksonville, Florida and then the Burleigh Bears in Australia.
In addition to the NFL, ten players were signed to AFL teams: Bobby Keyes (Dallas), Terrell Browden (Colorado), James Clark (Georgia), Jerry Turner (Las Vegas), William Mayes (Las Vegas), Herman Bell (Detroit) and Ernest Ross (Detroit).
He made his senior AFL debut for the club in round one of the 2011 season, playing a total of 17 games in his debut season, mainly as a wingman, and also received a nomination for the AFL Rising Star award.
The AFL has used the Auskick program the introduce Australian rules football into schools and communities around the country to increase the AFL's profile in areas that traditionally support other football codes such as New South Wales and Queensland.
After consulting with a Sheikh, Houli decided to break his Ramadan fast for three days during the physical endurance tests at the AFL Draft Camp; this allowed him to record sufficient times to impress recruiters and be a viable selection in the draft.
Travis Boak, AFL footballer currently contracted to the Port Adelaide Power
After spending the first seven rounds of the 2000 season playing in the WAFL with South Fremantle, Bootsma was selected to make his debut in Round 8 against Collingwood at the Docklands Stadium in a rare (for AFL) Monday night game.
The non-profit also sponsors public addresses by prominent progressive public intellectuals including Barbara Ehrenreich, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Frances Fox Piven, Lani Guinier, John Conyers, Barney Frank, Rashid Khalidi, former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, and Michael Parenti.
Some of the Politicians, like Rich Salzer, went on to play for the Chicago Bruisers and the other charter AFL teams, the Denver Dynamite, Pittsburgh Gladiators, and Washington Commandos.
The ground is home to North Albany Football and Sporting Club, Albany Football Club and Collingwood Park Cricket Club and has hosted several large events such as Crusty Demons's West Coast Carnage Tour and in 2008 hosted an AFL NAB Challenge Cup match between West Coast Eagles and Collingwood.
Craig Willis (born 1954) is an Australian announcer who has appeared as the voice of many of Network Ten / One HD & Seven Network's AFL Grand Final, Anzac Day, Dreamtime At The 'G and major Finals Broadcasts/Telecasts. He is known to many as the 'voice of the AFL'
Joining him in presenting a variety of segments are Martin Bowerman, Frank 'Tommo' Thompson, Gary Howard, former Miss Universe contestant Kimberley Busteed radio personality Dean Miller, former AFL player for the Brisbane Lions Richard Champion and winner of the 5th Australian version of the reality series The Mole Liz Cantor.
He shared the starting job with Ed Rutkowski, Kay Stephenson and Tom Flores in 1968 while long-time starter and former AFL MVP Jack Kemp was out with an injury.
Playing mainly as a full-back, Glass is considered one of the best players in his position in the AFL, having been named in the All-Australian team on four occasions, including as captain of the 2012 team.
Unions such as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Government Employees, American Postal Workers Union, National Association of Letter Carriers, American Federation of Teachers, Service Employees International Union, National Education Association and American Nurses Association added hundreds of thousands of new members in only a few years.
His school football was for Lockridge Senior High School where he played alongside future AFL player's Garth Taylor, Brett Johnson and Dwayne Simpson.
Gary Moorcroft (born 16 April 1976) is a former Australian rules football player for the Essendon and Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Prior to founding DCI in 1983, Schussel was Vice President and CIO at the American Mutual Group of insurance companies in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Leading AFL player manager Ricky Nixon also started his playing career at Golden Square before playing VFL football with Carlton, St Kilda and Hawthorn.
In one of TISM's many references to Australian Football League football, the liner notes, which chronicle the rise, fall and disbanding of TISM, and the band members individual exploits around the world, were credited to E.J. Whitten, argued by some to be the greatest AFL player of all time; a picture of Whitten appeared on the cover of the EP Gentlemen, Start Your Egos (1991).
In 1953, she becomes member of the Montréal Labour Council (Conseil du travail de Montréal), which at that time was affiliated to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
A labor organization with a similar name, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, or the CIO, was founded in 1935 by eight unions that were a part of the American Federation of Labor.
Gieschen (with the now former Head of Coaching for umpires, Rowan Sawers) has been acknowledged by the AFL (memorandum from Mark Evans, AFL Football Operations Manager, 30th October, 2013) as "...the longest serving umpire coach/manager combination in the history of the AFL. They have overseen a period of great improvement in the professionalism and advancement of umpiring programs and the outstanding performance of umpires and officials in Finals and Grand Finals."
In 2005 he signed with the Georgia Force, on the first day of the AFL's free agency signing period, where he rejoined former teammates and coaches from Dallas, Offensive coordinator Steve Thonn, WR/LB Dialleo Burks and WR/DB Luke Leverson.
Before an AFL game in Perth on May 29, 2009, Richmond footballer Ben Cousins gave the finger in the direction of a camera in the changerooms.
Since winning the National Australia Bank-sponsored AFL Rising Star Award, Selwood has been involved in several promotions for the bank, in an ambassadorial role and in several television advertisement appearances.
Karen Nussbaum (born April 25, 1950) is the executive director of Working America, a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO.
In his role as the CIO's general counsel, Pressman was influential in helping to stop the attempt to deport Communist Longshoreman's Union official Harry Bridges.
Roberts-Thomson is a rarity in AFL as he grew up playing rugby union as a contemporary of Wallaby Phil Waugh at Sydney Church of England Grammar School.
Klarfeld created several sculptures of well-known Australians including Dr Victor Chang, Cricketers Keith Miller and Bill Woodfull, AFL Footballer Neil Roberts and former Mayor of Mosman, Cr Dom Lopez OAM.
She is a Union Representative, who specializes in contract negotiation and administration, for AFL-CIO unions such as the United Auto Workers, OPEIU (Office and Professional Employees International Union), and currently the Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE, a healthcare affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers).
He also joined radio station Triple M in Melbourne to provide match commentary for its Australian rules football coverage on Friday nights with James Brayshaw and co-hosts Triple M Melbourne's The Hot Breakfast with fellow AFL media personalities Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy.
He then made his AFL debut for Fremantle in Round 7 of the 2009 AFL season at Carrara Stadium against Carlton, as a replacement for the injured Ryan Crowley.
Increasingly obsessed with international affairs and the Soviet Union, Woll served as an AFL delegate to the International Federation of Trade Unions conference in 1937 and to the International Labor Organization's conference in 1938.
In the 1800s the site was home to Turner Hall, and in 1881 the world's first labor union, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (later to become the AFL and part of the AFL-CIO) had its founding conference at the site.
Also hailing from Mt. Vernon is 13 year veteran AFL/NFL offensive lineman Bobby Maples.
On November 17 Occupy Texas State, Occupy Austin, the Texas State Employees Union/CWA, The American Federation of Teachers the ISO and the Texas AFL-CIO gathered at the Texas State Capitol to rally against the Texas Legislature's $6.6 billion cut on public education.
He broke a tie with Greg Hopkins for sole possession of 20th place on the AFL's all-time career interception list with his 27th that he returned 42 yards for a touchdown, his fifth career interception return for a touchdown with San Jose (sixth overall) giving him the team's all-time lead, against the Crush.
(One of these successful candidates was longtime Oregon AFL–CIO Secretary-Treasurer Brad Witt, incumbent State Representative.)
Seven years before its debut season in the AFL as Port Power, the then SANFL club Port Adelaide applied to become the AFL's first South Australian club.
Blease kicked a career high five goals against the Saints in round 20 of the 2012 AFL season, for this he was nominated for the 2012 AFL Rising Star, becoming only the ninth player to be nominated in two different seasons.
He was a member of the Joint AFL-CIO Commission that investigated labor conditions in the Central Zone in January 1949, and was a member of the US delegation to the conventions of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) held in Milan, in 1951; Vienna in (1955) and Tunis in 1957.
He is the brother of former AFL player Patrick Wiggins (with whom he now plays at Sunshine) and is married to Australian diver, Loudy Wiggins.
He supports five AFL teams, something he cops a lot of flack for: Essendon, Brisbane, Collingwood, Sydney and West Coast.
He spent his first eight campaigns in the American Football League (AFL) with the Houston Oilers (1962–1965) and Miami Dolphins (1966–1969).
Also, for special events like concerts or AFL football games extra trains can be originated this way.
In 1912, McClelland became president of the Melbourne Football Club, a position he relinquished when elected to the presidency of the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1926, succeeding Baldwin Spencer.
The group was primarily funded by insurance mogul Peter Lewis, currency trader George Soros, and labor unions, especially the Service Employees International Union, and was led by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director of the AFL-CIO.
The memorial was commissioned by the American Merchant Mariners' Memorial, Inc., chaired by AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland.
Chávez and John F. Henning, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the California Labor Federation (the state body of the AFL-CIO, wrote the bill and first-term Chicano Assemblyman Richard Alatorre (D-Los Angeles) introduced the bill.
Lake has worked with organizations and individuals such as the AFL-CIO, the SEIU, Emily's List, The White House Project, Planned Parenthood, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Senator Blanche Lincoln.
In August 2006, the AFL-CIO gave their endorsement to Mejias, over the incumbent Peter T. King (R), whom they had endorsed in each election for the previous fourteen years, ever since King was first elected to Congress.
In 2009, Florida AFL–CIO delegates elected Mike Williams, a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union #177, (I.B.E.W. L.U. #177 – Jacksonville, Florida), president.
John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers called the merger a "rope of sand", and his union refused to join the AFL-CIO.
Linda Chavez-Thompson (born 1944), executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO
Nathaniel "Nat" Goldfinger (August 20, 1916 – July 22, 1976) was an American economist and researcher with labor group AFL-CIO for 13 years.
But intervention by national, state and local AFL-CIO leaders pressured New York City mayor Robert Wagner to appoint a pro-labor fact-finding committee to investigate conditions in the city's schools and recommend a solution to the labor problem.
Donahue, Donahue's assistant, a former director of organizing and field services at the AFL-CIO, the leaders of five AFL-CIO unions, and Richard Bensinger (then organizing director with the Service Employees International Union
Patricia A. Friend is the former International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO.
A graduate of the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Crowley is one of many who entered the Labor Movement during the mid-1990s when the AFL-CIO President John Sweeney issued a call to arms for a new generation of Union organizers to re-energize the American labor movement.
He was elected president of Local 82, Shoe Division, of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO in Sanford, Maine.
When paper workers in Jay, Maine began tough collective bargaining talks with the International Paper (IP) in 1987, the Maine AFL-CIO assigned Kellman to work with the local.
First, Milkman argues that emergence of relatively innovative unions such as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), UNITE HERE and the United Food and Commercial Workers from the conservative AFL-CIO is as noteworthy as the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1935.
Although Wall had been an early endorser of Jimmy Carter as president, his union broke with the AFL-CIO to endorse Ronald Reagan.
He had been general counsel to the New Jersey AFL-CIO in the 1980s, and was later employed as senior vice president of business development for Hill International, where he worked on issues relating to the firm's construction projects on the Tappan Zee Bridge and Interstate 287 in Westchester County, New York.
It received $575,000 between April 1984 and April 1985 from the government of the United States through the National Endowment for Democracy and was also supported by Irving Brown, leader of the international relations of the AFL-CIO and a CIA contractee.