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We Remember: What Working People Are Doing This Week

Kenneth Quinnell
What Working People Are Doing This Week

Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week.

Actors' Equity:

On Sept. 17, Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, you're invited to join hands with New Jersey residents from Fort Lee to Washington Crossing to form a living chain of resistance against authoritarianism. Learn how you can be a part of @handsacrossnj.bsky.social here - https://handsacrossnj.org/

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— Actors' Equity Association (@actorsequity.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM

AFSCME:

Alliance for Retired Americans:

Amalgamated Transit Union:

American Federation of Teachers:

American Postal Workers Union:

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA:

Boilermakers:

Bricklayers:

Coalition of Labor Union Women:

Communications Workers of America:

Department for Professional Employees:

The Protect America’s Workforce Act restores the union rights of federal employees that President Trump has attacked with his executive orders. Tell your Representative to sign the discharge petition to bring the bill to the House floor for a vote! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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— Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (@dpeaflcio.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM

Electrical Workers:

Fire Fighters:

Heat and Frost Insulators:

International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers:

International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers:

Labor Council for Latin American Advancement:

Laborers:

Machinists:

Major League Baseball Players Association:

Major League Soccer Players Association:

Maritime Trades Department:

Metal Trades Department:

Musical Artists:

AGMA Stands in Solidarity with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: Instead of working with their musicians, management is spending time and resources trying to discredit them—this time, even launching a website to do it. full statement: www.musicalartists.org/agma-stands-...

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— American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) (@weareagma.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM

National Air Traffic Controllers Association:

National Association of Letter Carriers:

National Day Laborer Organizing Network:

National Nurses United:

National Taxi Workers Alliance:

NFL Players Association:

North America's Building Trades Unions:

Painters and Allied Trades:

Pride At Work:

It’s time to restore federal workers’ collective bargaining rights. 📞 Call your member of Congress—Republican or Democrat—and urge them to sign the discharge petition for the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) right now. act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

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— Pride at Work (@prideatwork.org) September 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM

Professional Aviation Safety Specialists:

Professional Hockey Players’ Association:

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union:

Roofers and Waterproofers:

SAG-AFTRA:

Service Employees International Union:

Theatrical Stage Employees:

Transport Workers Union:

Transportation Trades Department:

UAW:

UNITE HERE:

United Food and Commercial Workers:

United Steelworkers:

Writers Guild of America East:

"[The contract] also includes a minimum of 12 weeks of severance (after six months of service), just cause, PTO for part-time employees, a codified 40-hour work week and comp time; and four-week paid sabbatical for employees who have worked at Lemonada for at least five years."

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— Writers Guild of America East (@wgaeast.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM