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Labor's Winter of Discontent in Kentucky? Maybe Not

… Despite the departure of four of their own, Kentucky House Democrats should be able to keep the Republican "right to work" wolf away from organized labor’s door. Prevailing wage repeal, another long-cherished Republican goal, also faces an …
Speech

Trumka on Amazon: We're Not Going Anywhere

… Store Union (RWDSU). Thank you, Brother Stuart Appelbaum, for your earnest leadership and your unwavering commitment to worker empowerment. To the RWDSU members and heroic Amazon workers who made this election possible: I want to thank you … felt by coffee shop workers in Illinois and Wisconsin, nurses at a major hospital in Maine and too many places to name right now. It's clear: There is a groundswell of union organizing. And working people want in. We’re done with the brutality … come with a union card. Our cause is to ensure that everyone who wants a union card in their pocket can get one. That's a right of workers in America—the right to collectively bargain freely and fairly without interference or intimidation. It …
Executive Council Statement

Collective Bargaining —The Path To Shared Prosperity

… Our history and the experience of working people around the world tells us that only when workers have the right to organize and collectively bargain do societies enjoy shared, sustainable prosperity. America desperately needs a … of color and women. The AFL-CIO calls on the political leadership of our country at every level to use Professor Hacker’s work to help make shared prosperity a reality, starting by restoring workers’ ability to bargain collectively. It is time we …
Press Release

Statement from AFL-CIO Officers on President Biden’s Announcement

… than President Joe Biden. He has had workers’ backs every day of his presidency, constantly pushing his administration to use every tool in its toolbox to create and protect our jobs, defend our rights in the workplace, and invest in our economic security. President Biden’s … of landmark legislation, which rescued our economy from the brink of another depression, brought manufacturing jobs back to America and put us on the pathway to create millions of good-paying union jobs. He ensured a pro-labor National Labor …
Legislative Alert

Letter Opposing Legislation That Would Weaken Protections for H-2A Visa Guestworkers

… Dear Senator, On behalf of the 60 affiliated unions of the AFL-CIO, I write to urge you to oppose S.J. Res. 25, which would overturn rulemaking issued by the Department of Labor to protect wages in the H-2A … to support our food chain, the greater the imperative should be to ensure that workers within the program, and those who work alongside them, are treated and paid fairly. The H-2A program has mushroomed in size in recent years, and as it grows, …
Press Release

AFL-CIO President: ‘The Longshoremen’s Fight for a Fair Contract Is the Entire Labor Movement’s Fight…USMX Holds the Power to End This Strike’

… Shuler issued the following statement as some 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) began a work stoppage at the ports along the East and Gulf Coasts as companies refused to pay workers their fair share:  (Washington, D.C.) —The longshoremen’s fight for a fair contract is the entire labor … by automation.  It’s simple: USMX holds the power to end this strike. To keep the economy moving, the carriers need to do right by the workers who move the economy. The U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) can end this whenever it wants with a contract …
Legislative Alert

Letter Supporting Legislation that Would Expand Protections for Seasonal Workers

… Dear Representative: America’s unions urge you to join Representative Castro as a co-sponsor of the Seasonal Worker Solidarity Act, which would fundamentally reform the H-2B visa program to ensure fair pay, safe working conditions, and just treatment of all workers in seasonal industries. The pandemic has exposed the systemic undervaluing of work now understood to be essential, and the need for new approaches that reject entrenched patterns of discrimination and …
Speech

Shuler: Colorado Labor Is a Powerful Force for Good

… AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler delivered the following remarks by video to the Colorado AFL-CIO Convention: Hello Colorado—I am honored to be with you—even by video.  Josette [Jaramillo], my … is leading within a broad labor coalition to claim organizing rights for more than a quarter million working people.  Right now, most public employees in Colorado are denied the right to bargain for a better life. But you’re building on … month, people are quitting jobs. And changes in our workplaces, especially as new technology is evolving and shaping our work.  The pandemic sped up rapid changes that companies had already been planning.  HelloFresh, a tech startup from Germany, …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 1: Building a Larger, Stronger Movement of America's Workers

… workforce. Over the past six years, the AFL-CIO and its affiliate unions have undertaken an aggressive program to do just that. Many national and local unions have made profound changes in their structures and resource allocation. By … strength in relative and absolute terms. In 1999, the AFL-CIO Executive Council launched an ongoing campaign— the Voice@Work campaign—to generate community and political support for workers trying to form or join unions and to expose anti-union, … spending a far greater portion of their budgets on organizing, generally with excellent results. Others are moving in the right direction. When all unions get to this level of financial commitment, we will have laid the foundation to transform the …
Press Release

Collective Action Is Stronger Than Ever

… The sky is falling! The labor movement is dead! These are the canned reactions that of out-of-touch people who want to believe their own story about unions in America will tell themselves when they see today’s report. But neither reflect a … years. The ugly truth is, because of these attacks, we live in a country where working people are constantly denied our right – our constitutional right – to join a union in the first place. With the way the deck is currently stacked, it’s a miracle that brave workers …