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By Our Hands: Rebuilding Life with a Job in the Building Trades

Have you ever been depressed? Ever felt like it wasn’t worth trying anymore?

Then you know something of how Ebony Flonory felt after her older brother was gunned down on a street in the Boston suburb of Mattapan in June 2016.
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The Freedom to Join

The U.S. Supreme Court will make a decision in the coming weeks whether or not to undermine the freedom of millions of teachers, nurses and other public workers to have strong unions. Today, the AFL-CIO has launched a new website, FreedomToJoin.org, that provides critical information about the Janus v. AFSCME case, counters misinformation, explains the value of union membership and draws attention to the wave of collective action in America.
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Teaching Solidarity on Teacher Appreciation Day

A quality public education is the bedrock of democracy, which is a truism on this Teacher Appreciation Day more than ever, as educators across America instruct us all by example in the power of learning, activism, solidarity and public service.
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By Our Hands: Oklahoma’s Biggest Teaching Moment

Oklahoma City sixth-grade teacher Cheryl Brouwer’s classroom has no math books. No math workbooks, either.
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By Our Hands: This Is What Happens When Hotel Housekeepers Say, ‘Hands Off! Pants On!’

It’s difficult to explain just how much hotel housekeepers endure when it comes to sexual harassment.
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By Our Hands: Here’s How Bonnie Blair Became the Typist of the Black Sanitation Workers on Strike in Memphis When Dr. King Was Killed

“I typed all day long for T.O. Jones,” said Bonnie Blair, recalling the rainy day in 1968 when she wrote 33 letters from striking sanitation workers to Mayor Henry Loeb of Memphis, Tennessee.