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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Teachers, School and Your Children

… Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight … of the New Rochelle Federation of United School Employees-AFT. Whether schools open or not is one of the biggest questions right now during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about what might happen and how teachers are feeling during these …
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Shuler: Maine Is Organizing and Winning

… AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler delivered the following remarks as prepared to the Maine AFL-CIO Convention: Hello Maine, Labor! I’m honored to be with you—even by video. Thank you Cynthia, Doug, Patrick, all the officers—and of course Matt and the entire team for your hard work and dedication. Cynthia, my IBEW sister—you’re blazing a trail as the first woman to lead the Maine federation. And I … on Twitter! Check out the hashtag: Striketober. 100,000 union members are either on strike or have authorized a strike. Right now—this is across industries and all over the country. This is how we win progress. We build pressure and momentum, …
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Esther Eggertsen Peterson

… catalysts for change.” In 1981, Esther received a Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest civilian award, to honor her more than 50 years of activism. Peterson’s courage and vision have shaped our society and our daily lives. Esther Peterson: Became the driving force to make equal pay for equal work the law. Reinvigorated the women’s movement in the 1960s by creating the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women …
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Trumka: Technology Must Be Used for Good, Not Greed

… AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delivered the following remarks at the opening meeting of the Commission on the Future of Work and Unions :  Good morning, everybody. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the first meeting of the AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions. I want to thank my partners, … future of work. We're living it and pioneering it every single day. But our experience has also taught us that there is a right way and a wrong way to unleash new tools. Will we let the drivers of inequality pervert technology to foster greater …
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Trumka: No System Can Endure If It Doesn't Provide For the Workers Who Make It Run

… Trumka’s speech here. Hello, everyone. And thank you, Michael Callahan, for that kind introduction.  It’s wonderful to be back with my friends at Stanford, although I’m sorry we can’t be together in person today.  As working people continue … are healthy.  We all want our economy to be stable and prosperous. But that’s only true when the people who make it work feel that stability and share in the prosperity. Right now, our economy is sick because working people are being silenced.  When our economy is sick, our democracy is weak.  …
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Trumka: Immigration Is About Coming Together

… the following remarks at hearing on immigrant worker rights: Good morning and thank you for being here. It is good to see so many unions represented in this room. At our 2017 convention, delegates unanimously adopted Resolution 22 , committing us to build community trust, which said and I quote: “Politicians attempting to distract from the real issues facing our nation … if we don’t tell the real story of how workers get ahead, how we need each other, all of us, to win justice and dignity at work, if we don’t spread that truth, we’ll be ceding the story to their messages of hate. Brothers and sisters, not on our …
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Congressional Republicans Attack a Law That Keeps Federal Contractors Accountable on Worker Safety and Fair Pay

… Federal contractors who seek lucrative contracts with the government are subject to commonsense scrutiny of their worker safety and pay records, thanks to an executive order signed by then-President Barack Obama and the regulations implementing it. … Now congressional Republicans are callously moving forward on a plan to overturn these regulations in the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Act. AFL-CIO Government Affairs Director Bill Samuel sent …
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Labor in the Pulpit, on the Bimah and in the Minbar

… Our program utilizes the Labor Day holiday as a unique opportunity for religious communities and organized labor to come together in partnership. Each year, in cities across the country, interfaith and ecumenical organizations, local religious leaders, state federations, central labor councils and area labor federations work together to recruit union leaders and congregations to participate as special guest speakers in congregations. In addition to Labor …
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Shuler to AFL-CIO 2017 Convention: I believe we can shape the future

… Let's talk about the future. The future of work.  The future of the global economy.  And the future of the labor movement. And while this is sometimes presented as a "new" discussion...the fact is that workers and unions have been adapting to changes in the workplace, including technology shifts and evolving employment models, throughout our history.   Of course, … people is what drives the transformation of our economy. The challenge is whether we can make another seismic shift to adapt to the digitalization of work and what's been called the "4th Industrial Revolution."   It's not just about robots …
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Pope Brings Call for Dignity and Solidarity to the Border

… The labor movement is welcoming Pope Francis back to North America this week and joining with those celebrating his historic visit to the U.S.–Mexico border. His visit brings a much-needed message of solidarity at a time when immigrants, refugees and … dad away from us. John Patrick, Texas AFL-CIO president: Wherever he goes, Pope Francis reminds us that all life and all work has worth and dignity. I hope our elected officials here in Texas will take that message to heart and end the divisive …