What We’re Doing In Texas Select typeArticleEventMedia HitMultimediaReportResolutionSpeechStatement Apply May 10, 2017 Blog Texas AFL-CIO: Immigrant Working People Will Suffer Under S.B. 4, but So Will State as a Whole Texas AFL-CIO President John Patrick condemns Gov. Greg Abbott's signing of S.B. 4, which will harm all working people. March 2, 2017 Blog Union Activism Saves 700 Jobs at Red River in Texas! When the jobs of more than 700 mechanics and technicians were about to disappear, National Federation of Federal Employees-Machinists (NFFE-IAM) Local 2189 at the Texarkana Red River Army Depot did... March 10, 2016 Blog Attack on Unions Is an Attack on Democracy It is ever thus. Unions have been under attack by business moguls in the United States since their inception, for no other reason than that they deliver higher pay and... July 17, 2015 Speech Trumka to Texas AFL-CIO Delegates: "You've done the hard work." AFL-CIO President RIchard Trumka delivers the keynote speech at the Texas State AFL-CIO Convention. January 25, 2010 Executive Council Statement In Support of Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice President Emerita, Candidate for Texas Lieutenant Governor