Reports

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.

The AFL-CIO sends greetings to our Muslim union members, their families and the entire 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.

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.

How Investment Managers Voted in the 2022 Proxy Season

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.

A report of the AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions, an initiative focused on bringing workers’ voices into the future of work debate and rebuilding worker bargaining power in an economy that is leaving too many people behind.

This 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.

The toolkit contains resources, examples of policy and contract efforts, links to research on the issue of sexual harassment, and provides best practices and insights for unions who are working to shift workplace cultures.

This report by Third Way, AFL-CIO and The Council on Competitiveness examines the reasons for making industrial efficiency and emissions reduction a national priority.

Submitted by the Labor Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy, September 27, 2018.