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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Maritime Union Members in South Florida Raise Funds for Cancer Research
Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.
Working Families Need Your Help: In the States Roundup
It's time once again to take a look at the ways working people are making progress in the states. Click on any of the links to follow the state federations on Twitter.
Civil Rights
Pride Month Profiles: Michael Golojuch Jr.
For Pride Month, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various LGBTQ Americans who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights. Today's Pride Month profile is Michael Golojuch Jr.
Service + Solidarity Spotlight: New Mexico Federation of Labor Elects a Worker Champion to Congressional District 1
Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.
Global Worker Rights
Mexican Worker Tells Vice President: ‘There Is Still No Justice’

In a meeting today with Vice President Kamala Harris, Imelda Jímenez, a worker from the Teksid Hierro plant in Ciudad Frontera, Mexico, which makes engine cylinder blocks for the North American market, described the workers’ seven-year battle to form an independent union in the factory where the top wage is $2.50 per hour.