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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: AFT Offers Free Resources for Pride Month

… 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 …
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National Native American Heritage Month Profiles: Irene Gonzalez

… Throughout National 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 Irene Gonzalez of AFSCME. … … Valley area of California, shuttling between foster homes in Tulare, Visalia and Atwater, and has committed her life to restorative justice and union activism. …
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Native American Heritage Month Profiles: Russell Denny

… 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 Russell Denny of the United … members in the U.S., where activists from numerous tribes exchanged ideas on how unions can improve their responsiveness to issues important to Native American members, communities and peoples. …
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Native American Heritage Month Profiles: Patricia Salway

… 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 Patricia Salway of AFGE. … …
Executive Council Statement

Safety and Health and Government's Role

… Portland, OR The Clinton Administration has been engaged in efforts to change the way government operates through its "Reinventing Government" initiatives. The AFL-CIO has worked to insure that these initiatives not erode important government responsibilities, particularly regulation and enforcement, … on the reduction of injuries and fatalities as measures of enforcement effectiveness. We share the goal of eliminating work injuries, but we have grave concerns that without a high level of inspections these strategies cannot work. New …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 30: Retirement Security

… challenges. The primary public program, Social Security, faces serious funding issues within the next three decades and is right now threatened by efforts in Congress that will significantly reduce the benefit it will pay to future retirees. At the same time, stock market losses in recent years, corporate scandals and outdated federal laws have … private retirement programs. Last year, Congress passed and the president signed legislation that offered some relief to single-employer pension programs but purposefully excluded multiemployer pension plans, including the more than 60,000 …
Press Release

AFL-CIO Highlights from World Congress of the ITUC in Berlin

… CEO C. Douglas McMillon and Charles Koch for the dubious honor. With over twenty thousand votes cast, Bezos was chosen due to difficult working conditions at Amazon warehouses, where workers are forced to walk as much as 15 miles a day, and staff is required to wear Orwellian personal tracking devices to monitor every move.         (More information here: …
Legislative Alert

Letter Supporting the Paycheck Fairness Act

… Dear Representative: The AFL-CIO strongly urges you to support the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R 7) when it comes to the House floor this week. The Paycheck Fairness Act is a long overdue remedial measure that responds to the demonstrated … the Equal Pay Act made it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to male and female employees who perform the same work, wage disparities between men and women persist in both the private and public sectors, at every educational level, …
Press Release

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Discusses Worker Safety and COVID-19 with President-Elect Biden

… President-Elect Joe Biden, Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris and leaders from the business community and labor movement to share the federation’s vision for how to get people back to work safely in face of COVID-19. Here are excerpts from Trumka’s remarks: “We need to manufacture the respirators and …
Executive Council Statement

On the Passing of Gerald W. McEntee

… workers in Philadelphia. McEntee made an art form of building power for working people, and he had an unwavering vision to lift up the voices of public service workers in particular. He was the driving force behind securing collective bargaining rights for Pennsylvania state employees, organizing more than 75,000 of them to join the AFSCME family in the early 1970s. As executive director of AFSCME Council 13, he negotiated strong contracts for … and building its political muscle. The foundation he built as chair of the AFL-CIO Political Committee continues to guide our movement’s fight for equality for all workers.  McEntee also threw his passion into health care reform, and …