Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.

The 2026 AFL-CIO Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference is officially underway in Baltimore!

Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.

On Jan. 7, the Trump administration announced it would withdraw the United States from 66 international organizations, conventions and treaties, including the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development. International spaces like these are where the United States—together with other countries—has, for nearly a century, set and maintained global standards for workers. We regret the administration’s decision to withdraw from these critical mechanisms of international cooperation. 

In the midst of attacks on voting rights, worker protections and civil liberties nationwide, union members and labor leaders are convening in Baltimore today for the start of the 2026 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference.