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 30th AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention affirmed that civil rights are workers’ rights and discussed the longstanding connection and partnership between the labor and civil rights movements. Speakers, including Bishop Leah D. Daughtry (founder and co-convenor, Power Rising), Kristen Clarke (general counsel, NAACP), Juan Proaño (CEO, League of United Latin American Citizens), Sophia Lin Lakin (director, ACLU Voting Rights Project) and President Claude Cummings Jr. (Communications Workers of America (CWA)), strategized around how labor can mobilize in the wake of the implications of the Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act in an attack on the fundamental freedoms of voters of color.
The AFL-CIO launched its 2026 midterm political campaign, Labor 2026 P.O.W.E.R (Protect. Organize. Win. Engage. Right Now.), a program to recruit 50,000 election protection “Union Peacekeeper” volunteers and turn out 2 million more union voters in the midterm election, ensure that working people can have their votes counted and voices heard at the ballot box, and put pro-worker candidates into office.
Read Convention Resolution 3: We Stand Up For One Another
Read Convention Resolution 5: We Want Democracy and Government That Works for All of Us