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Convention Resolution

Resolution 18: Occupational Safety and Health Resolution

… workers are injured or made ill on the job every day; and WHEREAS, immigrant workers, the most vulnerable workers who work in the most dangerous industries, are being killed and injured at far greater numbers than non-immigrant workers; and … since 1992, yet fatality rates for Hispanic workers have increased; and WHEREAS, the labor movement has a responsibility to address safety and health concerns of workers; and WHEREAS, according to a 2001 Peter Hart and Associates poll, the labor … workers the voice, skills and collective strength necessary to secure safer workplaces; and WHEREAS, workers have a right to a safe and healthy workplace and don’t go to work to die; THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the labor movement and the …
Legislative Alert

Letter Supporting U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA)

… Over the past two years, the labor movement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies on the USMCA working group pushed to remedy numerous shortcomings contained in the original USMCA text. The end result is a vast improvement over both the … and meaningful penalties. Developed by Senators Brown and Widen, this rapid response mechanism will allow complaints to be brought against facilities for violating the rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining, including … the copyright safe harbor provision (Article 20.89), that should not be used as a model in the future. Finally, much hard work will need to be done to ensure that Mexico complies with its labor law changes and obligations; and that the United …
Executive Council Statement

AFL-CIO Vice President Michael O'Brien

… joined Transport Workers (TWU) Local  282, the union movement has been his life.  He became a shop steward and was elected to his local union’s Executive Board and then as its President.  In 1983, he joined the TWU international staff as an organizer and rose through the union to become Transit Division Representative, Transit Director, Vice President and Executive Vice President.  After more than a generation of service to his union, his TWU sisters and brothers chose him as their International President. Through the years, brother O’Brien has …
Press Release

AFL-CIO President: Trump and Musk Are ‘Greedy Bosses Laughing at Workers on Livestream’

… conversation Monday night: Last night, Donald Trump yet again made it crystal clear exactly who he is: a scab who will go to any lengths to crush working people.   Greedy bosses aren’t just laughing at workers in smoke-filled backrooms anymore. They’re broadcasting it for the world to hear. It’s no surprise coming from Trump and Elon Musk—two notorious union-busters who boast a combined record of crossing …
Speech

Trumka Address to the 2016 Democratic National Convention

… Hello Democrats! I’m Rich Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO. It’s great to be in Philadelphia—a proud union town! Working people built this stage. And together we are going to build a new era of shared prosperity. Working people are strong. And Donald Trump is wrong, wrong, wrong. Listen, he … Partnership. She will protect workplace rights, stand up to Wall Street, and finally, finally secure equal pay for equal work! So get on your feet, Democrats. Let’s change the rules! Let’s take back Congress! Let’s win a pro-worker Supreme Court! …
Blog

Justice Delayed, but Finally Delivered

… home an American patriot this week who was unjustly deported six years ago. Ivan Ocon, a brave Army veteran, won the right to return to the United States with the support of a powerful network of organizations, including the AFL-CIO; the Union … action. Deporting people who have risked their lives to defend our democracy is disgraceful, and unions are determined to right these wrongs.” In 2021, the AFL-CIO Executive Council launched a campaign, under the leadership of the Union Veterans …
Executive Council Statement

Restoring Democracy

… Court seriously undermined our democracy when, continuing a trend of deregulatory campaign finance decisions, it ruled to allow unlimited independent campaign spending by business corporations and other groups. The Citizens United ruling … excessive corporate influence and restoring greater balance in our political process. From federal and state initiatives to bring about greater transparency and disclosure of spending by corporate interests and wealthy donors, to proposals for a … crafted to protect our democracy from the economic power of the 1%, while at the same time protecting the public’s right to organize politically through democratic organizations and movements. Working people have a long and proud history of …
Speech

Redmond to Steelworkers: We Can Overcome Any Challenge

… AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond delivered the following remarks as prepared to the United Steelworkers District 12 conference: Thank you, Brother Gaylan (Prescott) for that kind introduction and for … and staff for your commitment and dedication to our great union and working families. To Larry Brown for your incredible work for the working people of Washington. And I also want to thank Secretary-Treasurer (John) Shinn, brother Ken (Neumann) … Liz Shuler, was moved up by the board to the position of president to replace Rich Trumka. Liz is smart, tough and the right person to lead the American labor movement at this time. And the first woman to lead the American labor movement. And I …
Executive Council Statement

Financial Regulation

… of reregulating our financial markets, like the challenge of restoring workers’ rights in the workplace, is central to securing the economic future of our country and the world. In 2006, while the Bush administration was in the midst of … momentum in 2007 and 2008, and now a different day is upon us. The costs of the deregulation illusion have become clear to all but a handful of unrepentant ideologues, and the public cast its votes in November for candidates who promised to end the era of rampant financial speculation and deregulation. In October, when Congress authorized the $700 billion …