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Organizing Institute Field Clinics

… Back to Basics: Building Strong Relationships with the Organizers We Mentor Lead organizers need to balance the work between leading the campaign and leading and developing organizers. This training gives lead organizers the skills … recognition and developing leaders for the long haul. Participants share best practices for identifying and developing the right leaders for the committee. Organizers will think through the key leaders they have on their current campaigns, identify …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 24: Fighting Together for Workers in Manufacturing

… The manufacturing sector is central to the economic success of our nation, and to our ability to raise wages and rebuild the middle class. Importantly, with the beginning of the Congress of Industrial … health care than they did then. More than 40% of production workers make less than $15 per hour, and another 11% of them work for employment agencies, and thus are paid less but often are working alongside permanent employees for years. Despite …
Blog

Black History Month Labor Profiles: Rachel Bryan

… During Black History Month, we will be profiling past and present leaders in the intersecting movements to protect and expand the rights of African Americans and working families. We'll highlight both important leaders of the … and passion on her first campaign, 2012’s "NO on 32." Workers and their allies mounted a major grassroots mobilization to defeat the paycheck deception ballot measure that was driven and financed by corporations and wealthy out-of-state extremist donors. Because of Bryan’s hard work and unmeasurable contribution to the success of the campaign, she was asked to join the IBEW staff. Since then, she has …
Speech

Shuler: BCTGM Strikers Are Heroic

… The following are AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler's prepared remarks to striking BCTGM members at Nabisco: BCTGM!  This is worker power.  Right here. On this picket line.  And in Chicago, Illinois!  In Portland, Oregon!  In Norcross, Georgia!  In Aurora, … And 56 unions,12.5 million people in jobs all across the country have your back!  This is the labor movement! Are we going to let corporate greed take all the profit we helped create?  NO! Are we going to let them upend our schedules and cut our …
Blog

These Brave Workers

… and Medicare. She walked off the job this week on her first strike. … Here’s why: “I’m striking because no one should have to be forced to choose between paying a bill and putting food on the table—especially those working for a multibillion-dollar federal … your support for Barbara and the other courageous Maximus workers who are striking this week? When these workers return to work, this is the letter they will walk back in with. The more people who sign, the stronger show of force they’ll have when …
Speech

Trumka Talks Labor Unity in San Diego

… the following remarks at the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Awards Dinner: Brothers and sisters, it’s great to be with you. Thank you, Doug, my brother, for your warm words of welcome. I appreciate you. I appreciate each and every one of you, both what you’ve done and what you will do. You are demonstrating tremendous solidarity right now. We are together. We truly are one. Before I get into my remarks, I want to take a moment to acknowledge this … by Samuel Gompers in 1902. History is in front of us, as well as behind us. You’re making history with passion and hard work. You have brought us to where we are. Thank you. It’s not easy to rebuild a labor council. Let me be very clear. It …
Speech

Trumka Outlines a New Direction on Trade

… Good morning, everyone. Thank you Celeste [Drake] for that introduction and for your outstanding work on this issue. And thanks to all of you for taking part in today’s critical conversation about the future of trade. I want to start with a word about … deals. From Brussels to Washington, policymakers must understand that if we want to defend democracy from both the radical right and the out of touch elites, working people must help write the economic rules. That is why our ongoing efforts to …
Blog

Worker Wins: A New Way of Doing Business

… rights for state supervisory employees and public library workers. More than 7,000 state workers will be gaining the right to join a union later this year, in what AFSCME Maryland Council 3 called the largest legislative expansion of collective … Governor Moore for including negotiated raises for state workers in his budget, and we look forward to continuing our work together to ensure Maryland’s working families are not left behind.” Wisconsin Gov. Evers Protects Child Labor Law with …
Executive Council Statement

Support for Railroad Workers in National Collective Bargaining

… Los Angeles, CA AFL-CIO rail affiliates are gearing up for the next round of national collective bargaining, which is set to commence in the fall of 1999. Because of the substantial interaction between Railway Labor Act (RLA) collective bargaining … and the fact that the outcome of these negotiations will have a profound effect on the entire labor movement's mission to maintain high labor standards for all working families, the AFL-CIO pledges its full support to the rail unions in their … years to complete, workers are denied long-overdue wage increases and at the same time are barred from exercising their right to self-help. The fact is that in an era where the railroad corporations condemn government regulation, those same …
Executive Council Statement

AFL-CIO Vice President Melissa Gilbert

… SAG and the entire union movement.  That is why the members of SAG elected her as their president in 2001, the third woman to hold that office.  Under Gilbert's leadership, SAG achieved some enormously important goals.  It implemented Global Rule One, which ensures SAG contract protections for SAG members wherever in the world they work.  The union streamlined its National Board of Directors from 105 to 71 members and created a more effective branch structure.  Along with AFTRA and advertising industry representatives, it …