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Statement by AFL-CIO President Trumka on Defeat of Anti-Worker Legislation in Missouri

… “Defeating the attempt in Missouri to enact so-called ‘Right-to-Work’ and paycheck deception legislation sends a strong signal that working people will stand together to prevail over …
Press Release

Union-Buster Eugene Scalia Should Not Lead Department of Labor

… Eugene Scalia is the country’s top labor official. His track record is well documented , and it’s clear he has yet to find a worker protection he supports or a corporate loophole he opposes. Making the Labor Department—whose mission is to defend the rights of workers and enforce the law—a satellite office of a corporate right-wing law firm flies in the face of working people’s clearly expressed desires. We will not forget this betrayal by the …
Blog

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Redmond: 60 Years After the March on Washington, Let’s Recommit to the Fight for Justice

… Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, … month, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered perhaps his most famous speech to a quarter of a million people…. But what often gets lost in its brilliance is the why. Why were a quarter of a million … for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. When Dr. King finished his address, he handed the microphone back to A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin—prominent Black labor leaders and the chief architects of the March—recited a list of …
Executive Council Statement

Campaign for Global Fairness

… the past 30 years, corporations have been waging war against working families, using the emerging global economy as a club to free themselves from regulation and responsibilities to their employees and communities, drive down working standards worldwide and ship American jobs overseas. They marched … of their affiliates, joint venture partners and contractors internationally, most especially in China. And we must work with pension funds worldwide to find the appropriate shareholder voice for our capital in the restructuring of the …
Blog

Union Pride

… preached our funeral. The "reverend" Bevin had us dead and buried. The day he was sworn in—and we turned our clocks back to the union-busting 1920s—all that stood between us and a "right to work" law was a 54–46 anti-right to work Democratic state House majority. The Republicans had a big right to work edge in the …
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Worker Centers

… The union movement works to improve the lives of  all  people who work—not just those who have the benefits of union membership. In fact, the AFL-CIO has formed partnerships with worker centers and other groups of working people who do not have the legal right to collective bargaining. Some, like taxi workers, have been misclassified as independent contractors. Others, …
Blog

On Manufacturing Day, Let’s Salute the Dreamers — and Make Sure They Can Succeed

… imagine and invent things that will make the world a better place. And for the folks who will make those incredible things right here in America. … These dreamers will join a long line of change-makers. As a nation, we’ve always risen to the challenge to make a better future for the next generation, although we often take a step or two back before getting it … make some changes. Think of the Rosie the Riveters who built the indefatigable Arsenal of Democracy but were forced from work after World War II—and whose daughters and granddaughters still face entirely too much unequal pay , discrimination  and …
Speech

Pres. Shuler's Speech at the 2024 Labor Innovation & Technology Summit

… Liz Shuler delivered the following remarks at the 2024 Labor Innovation & Technology Summit: HELLO, everybody! Welcome to Las Vegas! It’s so great to see everyone here today. We have a packed agenda over the next few days! And look at this … as we strategize. When we do that…we win. And that’s why we’re all here today. When we look across this country right now…we see a lot of destabilizing forces. A lot of distrust of institutions. People and workers who are fed up with how … force that will stabilize us. A counterweight. A massive campaign to educate the public on A.I., and find a way to make it work for working people. To make sure we all have a say in our future. And it needs to happen basically yesterday. And where …
Speech

Trumka: Virginia is for Unions

… Good morning, brothers and sisters. It is great to be here in Williamsburg. Doris, thank you so much for that introduction. I am proud to call you my sister. Friends, let me … a long time, conventional wisdom told us Virginia was a conservative stronghold. Home to Liberty University, the National Right to Work Foundation and Ken Cuccinelli. A place where unions were few and far between and progress was nowhere to be found. But …
Executive Council Statement

Evy Dubrow

… Chicago, IL The AFL-CIO Executive Council honors the life and contributions to America’s workers of Evy Dubrow, who for nearly a half-century was the pre-eminent labor lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and … the union movement.  Dubrow died on June 20, 2006. Dubrow combined intelligence, wit, street smarts, compassion and charm to become not only one of the most effective lobbyists in the history of Congress but one of the best-loved individuals in our movement. Former House Speaker Tip O'Neill directed the congressional doorkeepers to share their chairs outside the House chamber with Evy—an honor no other lobbyist could dream of—because she was, as …