What We’re Doing In Illinois Select typeArticleEventMedia HitMultimediaReportResolutionSpeechStatement Apply April 12, 2017 Blog The Plan Behind a Chicago Project to Lift Up Working People Jobs to Move America and community partners recently managed to ensure a project in Chicago will create good jobs and long-term economic opportunities for the community. April 7, 2017 Blog By Our Hands: Slow Justice Still Feels Good for Teamster Fired by Union-Busters “The whole thing took like six years. I was away from my job for six years,” said Marcus Hedger, who was illegally fired in 2010 for volunteering in his union as a shop steward. March 23, 2017 Greed Over Good: Oreos September 6, 2016 Speech Trumka to IAM Convention: Your Professionalism is Unparalleled AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delivers the keynote speech at Machinists Union Convention. August 18, 2016 Speech Trumka to Federal Mediators: Labor-Management Partnerships Key to Future of Work Labor and management, working together, communicating and compromising. Sacrificing and listening. Reaching common ground. Using common sense. Benefitting the common good. That is the future at work. August 10, 2016 Speech Trumka to SMART Business Agents: You Can Make the Difference This year, working people are leading the national debate. We’ve put the focus on good jobs with strong and growing wages. We’ve made clear that working people should be sharing in the wealth we help create. We’ve shifted the conversation on trade. Load More