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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Profiles: Joy Kimura

… 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 Joy Kimura of the Laborers. … As …
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Profiles: Kim You Taing

… 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 Kim You Taing of UNITE HERE. … Kim You Taing said: "I came to the United States in May 1981 from Cambodia. I decided to become a shop steward to help my co-workers. I have helped to …
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Pride Month Profiles: Chelsea Bland

… 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 Chelsea Bland. … Chelsea Bland is a proud …
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Profile: Mohamad "Mike" Beydoun

… 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 Mohamad "Mike" Beydoun of the …
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Pride Month Profiles: C.J. Meushaw

… For Pride Month this year, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various LGBTQ+ workers who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights in the United States. Today's profile is C.J. Meushaw of the Professional … Aviation Administration since 2006. Meushaw is proud of her Slavic matrilineal ancestry and leverages her privilege to organize others socially identified as White to live equitably on Turtle Island and within the LGBTQ+ community. …
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Resolution 7: Protecting and Promoting Economic and Social Justice

… Improving Health Care for All Ensuring Retirement Security for Working FamiliesRewarding Honest, Hard Work Ending Workplace Inequality Even before the horrifying events of Sept. 11, our nation was at a crossroads. A decades-long chipping away at fundamental workers’ rights and family protections threatened to give way to a full-scale rout, as long-standing safety net laws and programs were moved toward the chopping block. … and local labor councils will continue to work for new protections for workers in nonstandard arrangements, including the right to fair pay and benefits without regard to how the employment relationship is classified. In organizing and bargaining, …
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By Our Hands: Here’s How Bonnie Blair Became the Typist of the Black Sanitation Workers on Strike in Memphis When Dr. King Was Killed

… T.O. Jones,” said Bonnie Blair, recalling the rainy day in 1968 when she wrote 33 letters from striking sanitation workers to Mayor Henry Loeb of Memphis, Tennessee. … At the time, Blair worked as the secretary of the Retail Clerks International … respectively. When Blair heard the news, and how the city handled it, she was disgusted. “They said, ‘You cannot stop your work to pray or anything like that.’ Those workers had no burial insurance. The city only gave each family a month’s pay and … made a speech before in my life. I said, ‘Don’t give up! You’re making progress! God is on your side! You’re doing the right thing! You deserve respect! And I’ll type whatever you need!’” As Blair walked from the stage, she glanced at the …
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'20 People Control More Wealth Than Half the Population': Trumka Addresses the Democratic Platform Committee

… When working people come together in union to create a better life, America thrives. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka addressed the Democratic Platform Drafting … employed at Walmart or Nissan or Uber or in the public sector in Wisconsin or the private sector in Mississippi—have the right to organize and bargain without fear of retaliation. Without that essential freedom, all talk of addressing inequality … by repealing the health care excise tax and strengthening the private pension system. Finally, our economy will not work for all if more than half of our workforce is systematically underpaid and if millions of America’s workers are forced …
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Trumka Highlights Labor's Ascension in Land of Janus

… introduction. You and Tim (Drea) are doing an incredible job leading the labor movement forward in this state. I also want to recognize Pat (Statter) and Sue (Gilbert) for their great work here in Lake and McHenry counties. And, my thanks to Ron and Steve (Powell) from Local 881 UFCW for your decades of … Working people are rising up. Look at what we did in Missouri this summer: With more than 67 percent of the vote, we sent right to work into the garbage where it belongs! We spoke to members at more than 1,000 different worksites. We knocked more …
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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: New York State's Labor Movement Stands United for Racial Justice

… During the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread protests in response to the killing of George Floyd, working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities. In our new Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we'll showcase one of … elected officials can do more than they want to do and are comfortable blaming the union and the contract.” “I know right now there is so much pain, there is so much anger, there is so much frustration, there is so much tension,” Cilento …