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Press Release

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Statement on the Humanitarian Crisis of Unaccompanied Children

… DC) The humanitarian crisis of families and children fleeing violence in Central America and turning themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents has brought out both the best and the worst in our nation. Alarmingly, in places like Murrieta, … children. The spewing of nativist venom, the taking up of arms and the fear-mongering about crime and disease harken back to dark periods in our history and have no business taking place under the banner of our flag. On the other hand, around the … must act now to keep all families together, uphold our standards as a humanitarian nation, and advance the decent work agenda necessary to improve conditions both at home and abroad. Contact: Jeff Hauser or Gonzalo Salvador (202) 637-5018 …
Legislative Alert

Letter Supporting Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

… behalf of the AFL-CIO and our 57 affiliated unions which together represent more than 12.5 million working people, I write to recommend swift confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as associate justice for the United States Supreme Court. Judge Jackson is a nominee with extraordinary … qualifications and a wide range of experience and, if confirmed, would make history as the first African-American woman to sit on our highest court. As a district and appellate court judge in the D.C. circuit for nearly a decade, she issued more …
Press Release

Striking Warrior Met Workers Have Support of Entire Labor Movement

… in profits, continue their fight for a fair contract. The workers and families at Warrior Met made major sacrifices to save the company, even as executives took bonuses. The miners gave up wages, health care benefits, pensions and more to allow Warrior Met Coal to emerge from bankruptcy in 2016.   Since then Warrior Met has been extremely profitable, paying … shifted health care costs onto active employees; cut the health care benefits of 2,500 retirees; and told the miners to work up to 16-hour shifts with few days off and only three paid holidays a year that can be taken only on the days they …
Speech

Trumka to Arizona AFL-CIO Labor Day Breakfast: Vote Union

… (Wine), Bob (Bean) and Fred (Yamashita) are doing an incredible job leading the Arizona labor movement forward. I want to start this morning by remembering Arizona’s senior senator, John McCain. McCain served our nation with honor, enduring … momentum, look at what happened in Missouri. Earlier this month, voters there went to the polls to decide the future of right to work. And with more than 67 percent of the vote, the Show Me State sent that horrible law into the ash heap of history. We …
Speech

Trumka Rallies Missouri AFL-CIO Convention to Defeat Proposition A

… the following remarks at the 29th Biennial Missouri AFL-CIO Convention: Good morning, brothers and sisters. It’s great to be back in St. Louis. What has it been...three weeks? I feel like I should buy a house here. Thank you, Brother Mike … heroes is Quiema Spencer, a pipefitter in Kansas City. As a gay, black woman...she hasn’t had it easy. She's always had to work that much harder to build a better life. But, she says it wasn't until she joined a union that she truly found her … voice, just like she did. You see, the Missouri labor movement defines extraordinary. You needed 100,000 signatures to get right to work on the ballot. You got over 300,000. 213,000 of those were collected by volunteers. Now you are in the process …
Blog

A Decadeslong Struggle: Worker Wins

… (PERB) certified Local 338 of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union-UFCW (RWDSU-UFCW) on Sept. 27 as the union to represent 12 agricultural workers employed at Pindar Vineyards in Peconic, New York. This is the first union certification … York since the 2019 passage of the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act, which grants agricultural and farmworkers the right to collectively bargain. Local 338 first filed to represent the vineyard’s field workers on May 28 of this year. “For … can improve the quality of members’ lives. Thank you to Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland for his great work on behalf of members.” UAW Members at John Deere Reach a Tentative Agreement with Significant Gains : The UAW announced …
Speech

Shuler at COP26: We Cannot Leave Workers Behind

… seen transitions that have created enormous wealth for a few, and widespread hardship for working people. We don’t want to repeat the bad policy choices of the past that left communities stranded. Free trade, deregulation, outsourcing, precarious work, the rise of the gig economy—you name it—working people have been short-changed. It can’t be like that in the fight … good, union jobs for everyone. Environmental protection. Progress for racial justice. Gender equity. A Just Transition to a sustainable, equitable future means solidarity. That all working people have a voice. At work. In our political …
Blog

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Community Organizations Lead John Lewis ‘Good Trouble’ Marches and Votercades to the Polls in Georgia

… 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 … story. … Georgia shocked the country by voting for the Biden–Harris ticket in November. Now the state has the chance to flip the U.S. Senate to pro-worker control come January. Black and Brown voters in cities across Georgia joined a wide range of community …
Blog

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: RWDSU Continues Fight to Hold Amazon Accountable

… 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 … Here’s today’s story. … Today, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) announced it is filing objections to the conduct of the election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), charging that Amazon interfered with the right of its Bessemer, Alabama, employees to vote in a free and fair election. RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum said: We …
Blog

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Labor 2022 Campaign on the Move Among NPMHU Members

… 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 … Here’s today’s story. … Leaders of National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) Local 320 held a worksite visit last week to meet with union members at a postal facility in Tucson, Arizona. Local 320 President Felipe Ruiz (not pictured) and steward James Esquivel (pictured above, right), discussed the importance of voting in the upcoming election. They also urged the members to fill out the AFL-CIO …