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Washington, DC-based AFL-CIO has Promoted Lynn Rhinehart as General Counsel
About the Company
The AFL-CIO represents people who work. We are the umbrella federation for U.S. unions, with 55 unions representing more than 12 million working men and women. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations is an expression of the hopes and aspirations of the working people of America. We resolve to fulfill the yearning of the human spirit for liberty, justice and community; to advance individual and associational freedom; to vanquish ¬oppression, privation and cruelty in all their forms; and to join with all persons, of whatever nationality or faith, who cherish the cause of democracy and the call of solidarity, to grace the planet with these achievements. We dedicate ourselves to improving the lives of working families, bringing fairness and dignity to the workplace and securing social equity in the nation.
About the Person
Lynn Rhinehart was named AFL-CIO General Counsel by Trumka in October 2009 and joined the legal staff of the AFL-CIO as Associate General Counsel in 1996. She graduated magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center and clerked for two years for the Honorable Joyce Hens Green of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Prior to law school, she worked as a professional staff member for the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, chaired by Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH). She has written extensively.
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