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Press Release

AFL-CIO Announces New Acting Director of Civil, Human and Women’s Rights

… assume the role of acting director of civil, human and women’s rights on Sept. 18. As press secretary, she contributed to the development and execution of national communications, campaigns, brand identity and press strategies for the federation. She led press operations to develop and shape the federation’s message on civil, human and women’s rights, trade and immigration issues.  In her new … and identify key opportunities for collaboration between the labor movement and civil rights community. Through her work she will advance and implement programming in support of racial, gender and economic justice.  Before joining the …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 48: Public Education: A Civil Right, A Shared Responsibility

… Submitted by AFT Referred to the Legislation and Policy Committee A high-quAlity public educAtion makes it possible for all students to gain the tools … prepared to participate in a strong, inclusive and vibrant democracy. Access to a quality public education is a civil right without which no other rights can be exercised to their fullest. The American labor movement has long supported public … is needed. Every child has a right to an education in a safe and healthy school and every school employee has the right to work in a school where teachers can teach and staff can do their jobs properly. Efforts to ensure college students receive a …
Executive Council Statement

Disrupt Inequality by Demanding Full Rights and Protections for Digital Platform Workers

… long, digital platform companies such as Uber and Lyft have been getting away with denying basic rights and protections to their employees. These rights and protections include the right to organize into a union, a minimum wage, overtime pay, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, paid sick days, … Now is the time to “disrupt inequality” by standing up for platform workers. As we look forward to the future of work, the stakes could not be higher for working people and our economy. The way digital platform companies treat their …
Press Release

AFL-CIO: May Day Reminds Us that the Fight for Workers’ Rights Continues

… an unprecedented resurgence of the labor movement. We are raising our voices, courageously taking collective action to transform our workplaces and demanding that we have the opportunity to share in the wealth we help to create. At the same time, wealthy corporations and businesses are leveraging their influence to stifle worker power and …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 4: Assisting Immigrant Workers to Become Citizens and Exercise Their Workplace Rights

… Innovation and Political Action and the Executive Council EVERY DAY, more than 11 million aspiring citizens contribute to our communities, our economy and our country—yet they are effectively not covered by our fundamental labor law and are … and will help improve productivity and quality; limit wage competition; strengthen labor standards, especially the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively; and provide social safety nets and high-quality, lifelong education … our democracy.  The federation, its state, area and local bodies and its affiliates are working and will continue to work side by side with immigrant workers, their families, our allies and community partners to pass comprehensive immigration …
Blog

Levin: Improving Workers' Rights in Mexico Key to Improving NAFTA

… (D-Mich.) describes dismal working conditions in Mexico and argues that improving the rights of Mexico's working people to join together in union is a key way to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement. … An excerpt: After delaying labor reform for two decades, Mexico put a constitutional amendment on fast track, allowing workers to vote for officers and to ratify contracts. This effort occurred in the prelude to the vote in the U.S. Congress on the …
Press Release

Lawmakers Must Protect the Right of Everyone to Access Critical Health Care

… the House for passing the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) for a second time. Over the past three weeks, we have begun to see the damage and the harm inflicted on working people and their families from the Supreme Court decision and the actions … care, as well as their providers, are protected under federal law. The labor movement stands behind every person’s right to control their own bodies and to make the decisions they need to stay healthy, safe and secure. It is also hard to believe lawmakers are standing in the way of legislation that would protect the right to travel across state lines for care, a right recognized by the U.S. Constitution and the Supreme Court. Reproductive …
Speech

Trumka at AFL-CIO Civil and Human Rights Conference: Give Us the Ballot

… after him...those who carry forward the torch he lit. This year, one of those leaders is very much on our minds. I want to take a moment this morning to send our best wishes to America’s greatest living civil rights hero, the conscience of the … unions.  That’s why Dr. King sacrificed his life marching for those sanitation workers in Memphis. That’s why he exposed right to work as a false slogan designed to “rob us of our civil rights and job rights.” And that's why—more than ever before—we must …
Speech

Trumka to the 2020 Summit for Civil Rights: We Are Moral Visions and Legacies

… Good afternoon. Thank you to the Workers’ Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law School, the University of Minnesota Law School’s Journal of Law … movement for racial and economic justice that is on the verge of sweeping across America. Many of you know I first went to work in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania. I’m a proud member of the United Mine Workers of America. In 1890, at our … how the past shapes the present. That’s what confronting structural racism requires. We have a moral obligation to get it right. To make Dr. King’s dream our future. To live for the causes John Lewis marched for. To win a better day. Change is …
Speech

Trumka to National Consumers League: We're Not Too Poor To Do the Right Thing

… words of welcome. And thank you all for the honor of this recognition from an organization that does such important work. You see, paychecks and purchases go hand-in-hand in America, so when the National Consumers League fights to protect consumers on issues including fair and equitable access to credit, food safety and safe housing, you are fighting … of addressing social and economic justice in America today. And there’s one point I want to make about doing the right thing, about doing things like fighting against predatory bank lending, about organizing against discrimination, and …