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Capital Stewardship

… The AFL-CIO Capital Stewardship Program seeks to ensure that funds invested on behalf of working families are invested and managed in working families’ long-term best interests. The AFL-CIO and its affiliates, working with our trustees, are committed to organizing our funds to be active, responsible stewards of workers’ capital. Workers have fought long and hard to win secure benefits through …
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: New Jersey State AFL-CIO Stands with Striking Rutgers Workers

… 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 … officials, are out in record numbers on the picket line showing their support.    “We will continue to stand on the right side of history and demand that the Rutgers’ Administration pay the faculty and staff what they are truly worth. We … to a chosen few as recently as this year.     “The union members are fighting for items, including equal pay for equal work, a living wage for graduate workers, job security and access to decent healthcare. These are just a few of the issues …
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Trumka to Massachusetts AFL-CIO Convention: Workers Are Rising

… delivered the following remarks at the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Convention: Good morning, brothers and sisters. It’s great to be with you today. Brother Steve (Tolman), thank you for that introduction. Steve is...how do I say this...a personality. … MIT found that more than 60 million workers would vote to join a union today if given the chance. And because of your hard work, we secured a groundbreaking win for public service workers in Massachusetts, overriding Governor Baker’s veto by a … with his colleagues in the Massachusetts Congressional delegation, is leading the fight to pass the PRO Act—Protecting the Right to Organize. The PRO Act would let us do our jobs without interference from anti-union employers or anti-worker …
Speech

Redmond: Alliance of Health Care Unions Are United to Win

… of the AFL-CIO, International Vice President and proud dues paying member of the United Steelworkers. I am so thrilled to be here with you today. I know I don’t need to say this, but know the entire labor movement is with you every step of the way in this fight for a fair contract! Look what’s happening across the country right now. Working people have had enough. We’re rising up! Workers are mobilizing and striking! We’re working for a better … should look no further than their own workforce. Now, the labor movement has been fighting for equal pay for equal work since the beginning of time. Equal pay for equal work. It’s a fairly straight-forward concept. But for years Kaiser …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 34: The Social Insurance Model for Health Care Reform

… a universal health care system that guarantees access based on need rather than income. Health care is a fundamental human right and an important measure of social justice. As a nation, we need to exert the political will to enact comprehensive health care reform nationwide. There is strong evidence the crisis can be … to support the effort. We will mobilize our members to build support for bold, meaningful and comprehensive reform and work to pass legislation that assures everyone comprehensive coverage. One concrete plan that meets the test of …
Convention Resolution

The Social Insurance Model for Health Care Reform

… a universal health care system that guarantees access based on need rather than income. Health care is a fundamental human right and an important measure of social justice. As a nation, we need to exert the political will to enact comprehensive health care reform nationwide. There is strong evidence the crisis can be … to support the effort. We will mobilize our members to build support for bold, meaningful and comprehensive reform and work to pass legislation that assures everyone comprehensive coverage. One concrete plan that meets the test of …
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Uplifting Workers' Voices: 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 … pic.twitter.com/VoulBIbt1R — Arizona AFL-CIO // #PassThePROAct (@ArizonaAFLCIO) October 14, 2021 Arkansas AFL-CIO: Want to work under a negotiated contract? Join a union. ✊ We want you to keep your job. #1u #ARLabor #ARUnions #ARWorkers … (@aflcioky) October 14, 2021 Maine AFL-CIO: Tell @ClaytonAtBates to stop illegally threatening staff exercising their right to form a union! Union busting is disgusting. @FriendsofBESO @MaryPols @BatesCollege https://t.co/HtszdVD5pj — Maine …
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César Chávez

… César Chávez was a folk hero and symbol of hope to millions of Americans. In 1962, he and a few others set out to organize a union of farm workers. Nearly everyone told them … enough food on the table and they lived "under a tree, with just a canvas on top of us, and sometimes in the car." And the work was hard. Working lettuce with a short-handled hoe, Chávez remembered, was "just like being nailed to a cross." Chávez … Association (NFWA), lobbied for a minimum wage and unemployment insurance for farm workers, advocated farm workers' right to collective bargaining, and established a life insurance plan, a credit union and a hiring hall for members. A …
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All Hands on Deck: 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. … Alaska AFL-CIO: All hands on deck! Join the Fairbanks Education Association for … — Rhode Island AFL-CIO (@riaflcio) June 14, 2023 Tennessee AFL-CIO Labor Council: "Some noted they want to continue to work for IFF, many have been there for years because they were treated well. But, they said, facets of what made IFF a good …
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IUPAT Members Take a Day to Give Back

… 2,000 members of the Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) across the United States and Canada put their hearts and skills to work for their neighbors to honor the union’s second annual IUPAT Community Day of Action. … With materials donated by the IUPAT, union employers and …