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Get Out the Vote: In the States Roundup

… It's time once again to take a look at the ways working people are making progress in the states. Click on any of the links to follow the state federations on X (formerly Twitter). … Alaska AFL-CIO: Life gets busy. Plan to vote at a time that best … Texas AFL-CIO: Reminder: ALL workers – regardless of race, religion, or immigration status – deserve a living wage, the right to collectively bargain, and freedom from exploitation. Don’t let billionaires like Trump and Elon Musk divide us. We …
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Profiles: Fred Yamashita

… 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 Fred Yamashita of the United Food … director of the Arizona AFL-CIO since November 2017. Yamashita brings more than 25 years of union organizing experience to the federation, starting his career in organized labor with United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 99. From 2015 …
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Native American Heritage Month Profiles: Robert Gilson

… Throughout Native American Heritage Month, the AFL-CIO will be profiling leaders and activists to spotlight the diverse contributions Native Americans have made to the labor movement and toward expanding the rights of working people. Today's profile features Robert Gilson of the … A descendant of the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona, Gilson served seven years in the U.S. Army before going to work at U.S. West Communications (now Lumen). He encourages his workgroup to be active in the union so they will always have …
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Profile: Mary Akimo-Lu’uwai

… 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 Mary Akimo-Lu’uwai of AFSCME. … … Even when wildfires were raging across her island last summer, Akimo-Lu’uwai was on the front lines, working extra hours to ensure the community’s most vulnerable continued to receive much-needed mental health care. To Akimo-Lu’uwai, her work is …
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Trumka at IATSE Convention: Labor Movement is Pushing Forward

… Thank you, Brother Matt [Loeb] , for your kind words of introduction and for inviting me to this important and timely gathering. I want to tell you how much I appreciate the International Alliance of Theatrical … been getting better pay. That’s progress. But it is only a start. We want more. We want broadly shared prosperity. The right-wing corporate CEOs and the wealthiest 1%—the vast networks who have made it their mission to destroy us—are bold. These folks never need to work a day in their lives. Their money works for them. They push policies with one goal, and that’s to make them richer and …
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Redmond on the 1937 Republic Steel Memorial Day Massacre

… I got my start just down the road at the Reynolds aluminum with Local 3911. So thank you all for inviting me back home to District 7. It’s great to be surrounded by my brothers and sisters and to see so many friends and friendly faces. Now, … Steelworker brothers from Locals 65 and 1033. From 1010 and 1011.  We’re gathered here today to honor their lives, their work, their sacrifice. We’re here to reflect on this tragic event in labor history, in our nation's history. But we have to … intentionally misled and lied to. And because of that we cannot agree on the basic facts. It is clawing away at our basic right to vote and our right to organize, and it is undermining our electoral system and democracy.  And it is leading to …
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From the Great Resignation to the Great Resurgence

… the following remarks at a polling briefing at the AFL-CIO Headquarters on April 20th. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to thank everyone here in DC and those of you tuning in across the country for joining us - we’ve got a great program for you … having hours that were so unpredictable that they could never make plans, and others who were told their options were to work with COVID or be sent home without pay.  But to truly do working people justice, we need to go beyond just the anecdotal … issues said they thought it could specifically improve working conditions, communication, and accountability. They’re right - that is exactly what unions advocate for.  And we’re seeing the power of that advocacy as working people all over the …
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Building the Battleground Bench: Union Members Elected to Office Across the Great Lakes Region

… While the labor movement was busy helping to elect pro-worker candidates in important elections in Kentucky and Virginia this week, union members themselves were on the ballot, and they were elected to local offices across the country at an impressive rate. This result was especially pronounced in the battleground states in the Great Lakes region, where an energized union candidates program helped carry union members to victory. … In Pennsylvania, organized labor helped elect its endorsed candidate to the Superior Court in the Commonwealth …
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Women's History Month Profiles: Maida Springer Kemp

… of civil and labor rights. Today's profile is Maida Springer Kemp. … Maida Springer Kemp was born in Panama , but moved to Harlem at the age of 7. Her mother, Adina Steward Carrington, listened to the messages of Marcus Garvey and passed the lessons she learned to her daughter, teaching her to be hopeful and to value education. She joined the labor movement during the Great …
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Shuler: SMART is a Real Leader on Technology

… AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler's as-prepared remarks to the SMART General Convention: Who doesn’t want to be walked in by the incredible sisters of the SMART Women’s Committee? … Las Vegas with you. Anybody win big yet?  As you all know very well, in construction you often have to travel to where the work is, so, the joke was that IBEW stands for “I’ve Been Every Where.”  It feels that way even today because I travel a lot, … And, hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE, striking at Marriott and winning raises and better health care and the right to negotiate over how technology impacts their jobs. That’s huge! We are seeing a spirit of activism and not just among …