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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Building Power with Immigrant Workers

… Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight … Immigrant workers who take collective action will now be eligible to apply for temporary status protections and a work permit. “This is a game changer. Immigration threats will no longer be a weapon for the boss to use to crush worker organizing and lower pay,” said Fred Yamashita (UFCW; pictured above, standing to the right), executive director of the Arizona AFL-CIO. “These new protections are a perfect example of the kind of policies we …
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Profiles: Jason Chan

… Month this year, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights in the United States. Today's profile is  Jason Chan. … Machinists (IAM) … Jason Chan is a relentless advocate for workers' rights and justice for all. Chan is passionate in his continual desire to help others. Since joining the IAM in 2008, he worked his way up through the leadership ranks, serving in many positions …
Legislative Alert

Letter Opposing Bill That Would Weaken Worker Protections

… Member Scott: On behalf of the 12 million working women and men represented by the unions of the AFL-CIO, I am writing to urge you to oppose H.R. 3441, the “Save Local Business Act.” Proponents of the legislation claim that it is designed to … the line workers, and had authority over numerous other conditions of employment. In order to ensure that the employees’ right to form a union and bargain over workplace issues was protected, the NLRB held that Browning Ferris was a joint … realities of the arrangement at Browning Ferris and was rightly decided in order for the line workers to have a meaningful right to bargain over their terms and conditions of employment. Before the ink was dry on the Browning-Ferris decision, …
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Highlights from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka’s Major Address at the National Press Club

… AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gave a major address before the National Press Club, calling upon leaders of both parties to not only pursue an agenda that benefits working people across the country, but that strengthens the right of every American to negotiate for better wages and benefits. He described the choice we face as a country: … more fairly. Now it would seem that the Bill of Rights—with its freedoms of speech and assembly—affords every worker the right to bargain with their employer. But that is not how the system works in practice. The law today only requires employers …
Speech

Tefere Gebre Acceptance Speech at the AFL-CIO 2017 Convention

… Thank you, delegates. It is my greatest honor to serve as your Executive Vice President.  Thank you, President Marc Perrone, for your nomination. I am proud to be a part … as one...wages will go up...inequality will go down...jobs will improve.  But this will not happen on its own.  We have to work hard for it. We have to practice what we preach. Dr. King reminded us that the time is always right to do the right thing. So LET'S DO IT!  The emerging majority has already emerged. The future is now.  We can be the …
Speech

Pres. Shuler's Speech at the 2023 George Meany-Lane Kirkland Award

… Good evening, everyone. We’re thrilled to have you here tonight, in the House of Labor. I want to thank our team for their work to set up this event. Claude Cummings, thank you for CWA’s unwavering leadership on Filipino …
Executive Council Statement

In Support of the 3.5 Million Bangladeshi Garment Workers' Modest Wage Demand

… million mostly young women garment workers are demanding a modest minimum wage of 35 cents an hour, which would allow them to climb out of misery and at least into poverty. The current minimum wage, which has not been raised since 2006 despite … taka a month, which amounts to 35 cents an hour, $16.60 a week and $71.94 a month. The AFL-CIO will ask our government to work together with the government of Bangladesh to guarantee that Bangladesh’s workers have the right to freedom of association, to organize independent unions and to bargain collectively. The AFL-CIO urges the government …
Press Release

AFL-CIO Applauds Ruling Allowing Microsoft–Activision Blizzard Acquisition to Move Forward, Paving Way for Workers to Transform Video Game Industry

… Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on the U.S. District Court ruling denying a preliminary injunction to halt Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard: We applaud yesterday’s U.S. District Court ruling to deny a preliminary injunction that would have prevented Microsoft from moving forward with its acquisition of Activision … facing the illegal union-busting tactics often employed by large corporations. We demand that all companies respect the right of working people to organize free of threats and intimidation as Microsoft firmly committed to do with Activision …
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Pride Month Profiles: Maggie Hernandez

… For Pride Month this year, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various LGBTQ+ union members who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights in the United States. Today's profile is Maggie Hernandez of the United … Rights committees. Outside of her union activism, she also does custom beading for drag performers' costumes, and her work was featured in the last season of "RuPaul's Drag Race." …
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Pride Month Profiles: Jon Schleuss

… For Pride Month, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various LGBTQ+ Americans who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights. Today's Pride Month profile is Jon Schleuss. … Jon Schleuss, president of … group. While working as a data and graphics journalist at the Los Angeles Times, he joined together with his colleagues to organize their newsroom for the first time in the paper's 135-year history. …