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Convention Resolution

Resolution 42: Supporting an Apolitical, Professional, Merit-Based Civil Service

… WHEREAS, civil servants across the nation and overseas are working each day to build a healthy, safe, prosperous and just society; and WHEREAS, an apolitical, professional, merit-based civil service is vital to fulfilling the vital missions of the federal and Washington, D.C., governments; and WHEREAS, an apolitical, professional, … in hiring and disciplinary practices; and WHEREAS, attacks on employees’ due process rights, freedom of speech, right to form and join a union, scientific objectivity, and missions have chipped away at the foundation of the merit-based …
Convention Resolution

Resolutoin 32: Uniting Workers’ Strength Across Borders

… become more powerful than individual national labor unions, or even than the countries in which they operate. The only way to adequately represent workers in those global corporations is to unite them worldwide. Unchecked, these corporations have the ability to drive worker standards down globally. Only with … virtually every country in the world. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the central thrust of the federation’s international work must be to develop united strategies and action by federation affiliates and unions around the world to ensure that …
Press Release

AFL-CIO Denounces Wayne Williams Unfounded Attacks on Colorado Election Laws

… News, Wayne Williams, the County Clerk for Colorado’s El Paso County and GOP candidate for Secretary of State, attempted to discredit new Colorado voting laws that led to the state’s inaugural mail ballot general election this year. Williams claimed that the mail-in ballots left voters … Wayne Williams running our state elections.” For several election cycles, the national AFL-CIO has run the My Vote, My Right program to raise awareness on voting rights, educate voters on new voting laws, ensure voters are able to vote fairly …
Executive Council Statement

New York City Yellow Medallion Taxi Industry

… workers who drive the city's taxicabs are being blatantly exploited by a cartel of owners who have manipulated the system to deprive the drivers of income and benefits and to deny these workers the right to a union. The system permits the owners of the city-authorized taxi medallions to "lease" the right to drive a yellow, medallion cab to workers who have been unfairly classified as "independent contractors." Drivers …
Executive Council Statement

On the Retirement of Larry Cohen

… were shut down compared with other democracies. He authored the Jobs with Justice “I’ll be There” pledge—a commitment to volunteer five times a year for someone else’s fight, as well as one’s own. Larry continues to be a leader in the U.S. democracy movement: he chairs the Democracy Initiative, connecting labor, environmental, civil … and democracy. We will miss his leadership, his strong voice and his friendship, but we look forward to continuing to work with him on many issues that are vital to workers worldwide and to a vibrant democracy. …
Statement

AFL-CIO Commends Biden-Harris Administration’s Early Step to Protect Against Potential Harms of Artificial Intelligence, Makes Clear Safeguards Led by Workers Are Needed

… Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on the Biden-Harris Administration’s latest move to promote safety and equity in Artificial Intelligence development: Today, the Biden-Harris administration announced … (AI) tools for public and commercial use.  If left unregulated, AI and automated monitoring systems have a proven capacity to undermine Americans’ rights and destabilize pathways for workers—particularly women, people of color and immigrants—to access safe, quality jobs and enter the middle class. Robust guardrails must accompany this technology as it enters …
Press Release

AFL-CIO Commends Biden-Harris Administration’s Early Step to Protect Against Potential Harms of Artificial Intelligence, Makes Clear Safeguards Led by Workers Are Needed

… Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on the Biden-Harris Administration’s latest move to promote safety and equity in Artificial Intelligence development: Today, the Biden-Harris administration announced … (AI) tools for public and commercial use.  If left unregulated, AI and automated monitoring systems have a proven capacity to undermine Americans’ rights and destabilize pathways for workers—particularly women, people of color and immigrants—to access safe, quality jobs and enter the middle class. Robust guardrails must accompany this technology as it enters …
Speech

Redmond: Tennessee Labor Is Building a Better Society

… of Steelworkers Region 9. President Vonda McDaniel of the Nashville and Middle Tennessee CLC—thank you for your hard work building the council’s capacity this year. And for your friendship and fellowship on the AFL-CIO Executive Council, and … the entire Executive Board, thank you for your leadership, activism and advocacy across Tennessee. And of course, I want to thank another fellow Steelworker, Brother Billy (Dycus). The labor movement is better off in this beautiful state of … showing the nation—despite some of the most anti-worker and anti-union laws in the country—we will not be denied our right to build a better society. A society where work pays. And workers are safe. Where healthcare is a right. And retirement …
Blog

On the Passing of the Rev. C.T. Vivian and the Hon. John Lewis

… Lewis (80). As the nation grapples with protests and demands for racial equality, we remember their unwavering commitment to social, racial and economic justice. Both friends to labor and colleagues of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., their … front lines of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to demand African Americans’ constitutional right to vote. C.T. Vivian was a minister, civil rights leader and key adviser to King, organizing critical civil rights campaigns that shaped our country. His work spans more than six decades beginning with sit-in demonstrations in Peoria, Illinois, in the 1940s—more than a dozen …
Executive Council Statement

Vice President George Becker

… of the United Steelworkers of America, is acknowledged and applauded as an outspoken and eloquent advocate of the right of men and women to organize a union and to speak out with a powerful and free voice in their workplaces, in their communities and in their country. A native of Granite City, Illinois, Becker began work in a steel mill there in 1944, and from that time, rose through the ranks of USWA Local 4804 to become its president.  …