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Executive Council Statement

U.S.-Thailand Free Trade Agreement

… Bal Harbour, Fla. The Bush Administration has notified Congress of its intention to negotiate a free trade agreement with Thailand. This proposed free trade deal poses a serious threat to tens of thousands of automotive jobs in the United States. Thailand currently is the second leading source of pickup truck … with the latest imprisonment by the junta of Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi. The AFL-CIO will continue to work with its allies to reject the failed Bush free trade agenda and to advance our shared vision for an alternative form of …
Speech

Trumka to IBEW Delegates: Nothing Can Stop Us When We Stand Together

… Thank you, Lonnie [Stephenson], for that introduction. Good morning, IBEW! What a crowd. Lonnie, I want to commend you for your outstanding leadership of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. You’re doing the labor … crafted with IBEW hands will be done with the highest of standards. You’ve brought that same commitment to the important work of organizing, bargaining and representation. The IBEW has always understood that workers have a responsibility to help our employers succeed. But we also have a right to share in that success—to grab a fair piece of the profits we help create. That’s the flip side of the shared …
Blog

AFL-CIO Is Profiling Labor Leaders and Activists for Black History Month

… Baker William Burrus Isaac Myers Kenneth Rigmaiden Diann Woodard Check back throughout February as we add even more names to this prestigious list.  …
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AFL-CIO Is Profiling Labor Leaders and Activists for Women's History Month

… Thomas Rosina Tucker Velma Veloria Sue Cowan Williams Diann Woodard Check back throughout March as we add even more names to this prestigious list.  Our newest profiles: Dolores Huerta Frances Perkins Maida Springer Kemp …
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National Hispanic Heritage Month Profiles: Maria Starr Van Core

… Throughout National Hispanic Heritage Month, the AFL-CIO will be profiling labor leaders and activists to spotlight the diverse contributions Hispanics and Latinos have made to our movement. Today's profile features Maria Starr Van Core. … Mention the name of Maria Starr Van Core in any public circle and people will automatically relate it to activism, organization, union, voter registration and all around unity. And it comes with no surprise because she has …
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Maine AFL-CIO Leads Efforts to Open Labor Center

… Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, … these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. … The surge in union membership across the state of Maine is giving a boost to efforts to open the Charles Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education . The center will offer free classes and workshops on …
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Arthur Goldberg

… Prior to his public service in the 1960s as U.S. secretary of labor, Supreme Court justice and ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur J. Goldberg spent 23 years as a chief legal strategist and adviser to the American labor … He also aided other unions in this period, earning a reputation as a civil libertarian and passionate defender of labor's right to free speech and freedom of assembly. In 1942, after Pearl Harbor, Goldberg enlisted in the army. He was assigned to …
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Frances Perkins

… Frances Perkins was secretary of labor for the 12 years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and the first woman to hold a Cabinet post. She brought to her office a deep commitment to improving the lives of workers and creating a … positions and volunteered her time at settlement houses, where she learned firsthand the dangerous conditions of factory work and the desperation of workers unable to collect their promised wages or secure medical care for workplace injuries. By … the one-word solution to poverty: organize. Perkins never stopped believing that legislation was the best way to "right industrial wrongs," but unlike many women of her class, Perkins came to accept the value of working-class organization. …
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Workers First: 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 Twitter. … Alabama AFL-CIO: Senators @SenShelby @SenTuberville your constituency in west … Federation, AFL-CIO: Workers shouldn't be spied on by their employers. It's time we restore workers’ rights to privacy, at work and outside the workplace! Thank you @Ash_Kalra for supporting workers standing together for our privacy rights! #AB1651 …
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By Our Hands: I Fought for My Country. Now I’m Fighting for Our Future.

… President Donald Trump’s latest tweets dominate conversations in Washington, something else is going on where I live and work. A movement is sweeping through communities across America — and the fight to defeat Prop A in Missouri on Tuesday is just the latest example. … People are coming together. Collective action is on the … for themselves. And they’ve brought the fight to my home state of Missouri, where corporate-backed politicians passed a “right to work” law over the objections of everyday working people. Instead of sitting back and letting our future be written …