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Fund the Government. Fix the Health Care Crisis. Put Working People First. What Working People Are Doing This Week

Kenneth Quinnell
What Working People Are Doing This Week

Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week.

Actors' Equity:

"There are no Broadway shows without healthy Broadway actors & stage managers. And there are no healthy actors and stage managers without safe workplaces & stable health insurance.” – Brooke Shields https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/broadway-actors-prepare-strike-union-says-2025-09-30/

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— Actors' Equity Association (@actorsequity.bsky.social) October 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM

AFGE:

AFSCME:

Alliance for Retired Americans:

Amalgamated Transit Union:

American Federation of Teachers:

American Postal Workers Union:

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA:

Boilermakers:

Bricklayers:

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists:

Communications Workers of America:

Department for Professional Employees:

We stand with federal employees and their unions in demanding that Congress fund the government and give federal employees the stability they need to serve the American people. #StopTheShutdown

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— Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (@dpeaflcio.bsky.social) October 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM

Electrical Workers:

Fire Fighters:

Heat and Frost Insulators:

International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers:

International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers:

Labor Council for Latin American Advancement:

Laborers:

Machinists:

Major League Baseball Players Association:

Metal Trades Department:

National Air Traffic Controllers Association:

National Association of Letter Carriers:

National Hockey League Players’ Association:

National Nurses United:

NFL Players Association:

North America's Building Trades Unions:

Pride At Work:

Cassie Pritchard, @sbworkersunited.org ersunited member and union organizer, penned a powerful opinion piece in The New York Times this week about the role Starbucks baristas are playing in the country's larger culture war and the importance of Starbucks workers' unionization efforts.

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— Pride at Work (@prideatwork.org) October 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM

Professional Aviation Safety Specialists:

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union:

Roofers and Waterproofers:

SAG-AFTRA:

Service Employees International Union:

Solidarity Center:

The NewsGuild-CWA:

Theatrical Stage Employees:

Transport Workers Union:

Transportation Trades Department:

UAW:

UNITE HERE:

United Food and Commercial Workers:

United Steelworkers:

Working America: