Reports

This 2025 edition of “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect” marks the 34th year the AFL-CIO has produced the only comprehensive report on the state of safety and health protections for America’s workers. This report features national and state information on workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses, as well as workplace safety inspections, penalties, funding, staffing and public employee coverage under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act). It also includes information on the state of mine safety and health, key topics such as workplace violence, musculoskeletal disorders and heat illness prevention, and transitions in policies on government occupational data reporting, transparency and equity.

Whether you are at work, home or in your community, the labor movement wants you to know your rights and be prepared when interacting with law enforcement, including immigration agents. | Independientemente de donde se encuentre, ya sea en el trabajo, en el hogar o en su comunidad, el movimiento laboral quiere que conozca sus derechos y esté preparado para cualquier encuentro con las autoridades, incluyendo la policía y los agentes de inmigracion.

How Investment Managers Voted in the 2024 Proxy Season

Looking back, looking ahead. This isn’t where any of us wanted to be in the final days of 2024. But what has given us hope as we look back on the past year is the strength and resolve of our movement and the unwavering solidarity of our unions.

This 2024 edition of “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect” marks the 33rd year the AFL-CIO has produced a report on the state of safety and health protections for America’s workers. The Occupational Safety and Health Act, promising every worker the right to a safe job, has been in effect for more than 50 years, and nearly 690,000 workers now can say their lives have been saved since the passage of the OSH Act.

The AFL-CIO, which represents 12.5 million working people in 60 affiliated national and international unions, sends greetings to our Muslim union members, their families and the Muslim community as Muslims begin their holy month of Ramadan.

Una guía de supervivencia de AFL-CIO en caso de desempleo

Personal finance and job search guidance for the unemployed.

Questions and answers about the care economy.

Over the last 50 years, there has been significant progress toward improving working conditions and protecting workers from job injuries, illnesses and deaths. Federal job safety agencies have issued many important regulations on safety hazards and health hazards like silica and coal dust, strengthened enforcement and expanded worker rights. These initiatives have undoubtedly made workplaces safer and saved lives. But much more progress is needed.

As the Biden administration continues to remake U.S. trade policy, its “worker-centered” approach must extend to digital trade and the digital economy by placing the needs of workers, consumers and society ahead of the profits and interests of big technology companies.

The rules under which the AFL-CIO operates are detailed in our constitution. Amended at the Twenty-Ninth Constitutional Convention, June 2022.

This 2022 edition of the Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect report features national and state information on workplace fatalities, injuries, illnesses, the number and frequency of workplace inspections, penalties, funding, staffing and public employee coverage under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. It also includes information on the state of mine safety and health, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Summary and findings from a virtual workshop on on the value of hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) market formation in the Ohio River Valley.

The AFL-CIO Task Force on Racial Justice convened a subcommittee on policing to provide a venue for union members in law enforcement, and their representatives, to develop recommendations on issues of public safety reform. This blueprint is written by and from the perspective of unionized law enforcement officers and leaders, and endorsed by the participating unions and the AFL-CIO Task Force on Racial Justice.

This 2021 edition of the Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect report features national and state information on workplace fatalities, injuries, illnesses, the number and frequency of workplace inspections, penalties, funding, staffing and public employee coverage under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. It also includes information on the state of mine safety and health, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

This 2020 edition of the “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect” report features national and state information on workplace fatalities, injuries, illnesses, the number and frequency of workplace inspections, penalties, funding, staffing and public employee coverage under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. It also includes information on the state of mine safety and health, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report examines how European companies doing business in the U.S. South have responded when U.S. workers exercise their organizing and collective bargaining rights.