The AFL – CIO and or the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Institutional Organization is a certain type of voluntary federation which is specifically composed of up to 53 international and national labor unions. Nowadays, certain labor unions do represent over 9 million of both working men and women regardless of the ethnicity, the social standing and or profile, and as well as the racial identity. Approximately over 7.5 million of jobless individuals were officially recorded but according to certain labor union experts, the total and exact number of underemployed and as well as the unemployed individuals actually reaches up to 13.4 million. This survey was actually taken on July 2005. Actually, there is 1 over 5 ratios of unemployed individuals all over the world today that does not have work for over 27 weeks and more. Today, the manufacturing jobs had fall out down to 14.3 million since the last survey on July 2005. The result of the survey was even lower than the survey done on July 1945. During 2004, almost all women in USA were paid less or more than 76 cents in each and every dollars that men earn while the Asian Pacific women were able to earn about 86 cents (higher than the earning of women in USA) for each and every dollars that Asian men earn. On the other hand, the African American women only earn about 71 cents while the Latina women only earn 59 cents in each and every dollar that men earn. Women are actually accounted with 60% of the globe’s 550 million of poor individuals which are employed despite the fact that women are actually are the ones who cover up 40% of the entire world’s workforce and interface. There are approximately 1.2 billion of people who lives over the equivalent of $1.00 or less a day of earnings while there are those who live lesser than $2 a day of earnings. Currently, there are over 1 billion of underemployed, unemployed and or poor working individuals in the entire world today and 60% of these people are women. There are also 1% rich people of the entire world’s total population wherein their earnings are equal to the percentage of the poorest people by 57%. 1 out of 6 children works and earns up to 245 million with the ages from 5 up to 17 years of age. With over 1.3 million of total members, the UNISON is the largest union trade in Britain.

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