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Executive Council Statement

Vice President Sandra Feldman

… Chicago, Ill. Vice President Sandra Feldman has devoted both her life and career to insuring that all children, regardless of their economic background, their color or their race have the opportunity to benefit from the finest public school education. Her early years as a civil rights and human rights activist led to her committed, lifelong involvement in the day-to-day struggles to achieve equitable treatment of all Americans. A devoted …
Legislative Alert

Letter to Senators Opposing Nomination of Allison Jones Rushing to U.S. Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit

… Dear Senator: The AFL-CIO urges you to oppose the nomination of Allison Jones Rushing to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Ms. Rushing’s inexperience alone should disqualify her from a … should be able to force employees to sign mandatory arbitration clauses as a condition of employment, surrendering their right to pursue legal action on a collective basis under the National Labor Relations Act. The inevitable upshot of this …
Press Release

Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the Department of Labor’s Colombia FTA Report

… I am pleased that the report released today by the Department of Labor in response to our submission on Colombia’s Free Trade Agreement found significant evidence of inadequate labor inspection and enforcement, abusive subcontracting, failure to prosecute threats and violence against unionists and other failures.  While the report is an important first step towards … further delays have very real and unacceptably high consequences for Colombia’s workers, and we hope that both governments work towards swiftly and meaningfully improving access to justice. Contact :  Gonzalo Salvador (202) 637-5018 …
Legislative Alert

Letter Supporting the NLRB's Joint Employer Rule

… Dear Representative: On behalf of the 12.5 million workers and 60 affiliate unions represented by the AFL-CIO, I urge you to oppose today’s vote to override President Biden’s veto of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution (H.J.Res.98) that would overturn the … Relations Board (NLRB) on October 27, 2023. The NLRB's 2023 Joint Employer Rule replaces the Trump-era regulation, aiming to restrict workers’ rights and impede legitimate organizing efforts. This new rule establishes a reasonable standard based …
Blog

NLRB Gives a Union Yes to #GradUnion

… Yes, graduate students who work are WORKERS. The National Labor Relations Board has re-settled the question of whether graduate student workers are … Harvard, Cornell and the New School where graduate assistants are already organizing. Recognizing their work means their right to form a union is restored and they have access to the legal rights to form a union and negotiate over pay, benefits and …
Blog

Defending Our House: IBEW Local 1245's Public Sector Members Gear Up to Fight Back Against Anti-Union Attacks

… (IBEW) Local 1245 members from across the public sector packed the Ronald T. Weakley Union Hall in Vacaville, California, to learn about the growing attack on public sector unions and Local 1245’s strategy to defend and build our house through … eliminate "closed shops" (also known as agency shops) in the public sector. This is essentially the same end result as "right to work" laws—the objective being to weaken unions and decades-old labor contracts, giving employers unlimited power to define …
Press Release

AFL-CIO President on FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine Decision from Supreme Court

… AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler released the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in  Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine :  Reproductive health care is essential to working women’s economic security, and the AFL-CIO is pleased to see the Supreme Court sustain the FDA’s drug approval … robbing women of the freedom to make their own health decisions and protected the critical authority of the FDA to do its work based on science—not politics.  The nation’s highest court rightly held that these ideologically driven plaintiffs had …
Speech

Trumka to Japanese Trade Union Confederation: Inequality is Unjust

… Thank you for your kind words of introduction. It’s good to be in Japan. I want to give special thanks to Brother Koga, the secretary-general of RENGO and to all the brothers and … and mobilize in the community, in the workplace and in politics. Whatever we do, wherever we live, all of us, want our work to lift us up. We all want to build a better life for ourselves and our families. In Japan and in the United States and … earning only 78 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts with the same experience and education. Today, right-wing politicians and anti-union employers are trying to take the worst ideas from American politics and industrial …
Speech

Shuler: A Clean Energy Future Runs Through the Labor Movement

… AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler delivered the following remarks to the Global Unions’ Committee on Workers’ Capital at the 2021 Workers’ Capital Virtual Conference: Hi everyone, I’m Liz … thank you Hugues, Tamara and Shalini, for serving as the CWC’s secretariat staff throughout the year and for your hard work to make this conference possible—it’s a big lift because we’re virtual and we’re global. Since the CWC’s last … rescuing, designing and, of course, members of LIUNA are building it. The path to the clean energy future runs right through the labor movement. And we hear the phrase “just transition” used a lot. But it’s a meaningless phrase if the …
Press Release

Labor Movement Welcomes Doug Parker’s Nomination to Lead OSHA

… OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard for COVID-19 Statement from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Doug Parker’s nomination to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): Like Doug, I got my start in the labor movement fighting for mine workers’ right to a safe workplace. He has dedicated his life to advancing the cause of worker safety, because he understands this is … help restore OSHA to its essential mission after four years of willful mismanagement and decay. Above all, that critical work must begin with a long-overdue emergency temporary standard to protect America’s workers from a still-raging pandemic. …