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Executive Council Statement

To Support Issues Mobilization Work

… Chicago, Ill. The Bush Administration and its congressional allies have combined forces to advance the most anti-worker and anti-union agenda in recent memory.  The attacks on workers’ living standards and rights … But less energy has been invested to inform and engage our members in grassroots legislative campaigns.  We must work diligently to involve our members in our grassroots issue mobilization efforts to combat the attacks of a right-wing congressional leadership.  When workers are informed of these threats, they will respond.  They will make phone …
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Prince Was a Champion for Working People

… a musical icon yesterday. You'll read about his impact as a musician and an entertainer elsewhere, but let's take a second to look at Prince's career-spanning fights on behalf of working people. For more than 40 years, Prince was a union member, a … his Baltimore concert in the wake of Freddie Gray's death raised funds to help the city recover. I got to sit on the right side of the stage, high in the rafters, to watch joyously.) Few of America's artists have so well captured the plight … rights. Musicians—and fans throughout the world—will miss him. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and fans grieving right now." And this is a key part of his legacy. Prince was deeply talented and could have easily made his success without …
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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: AFGE Marks 20th Anniversary of the TSA with Campaign to Expand Workers’ Rights

… 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 … terror attacks. The labor movement will mark this occasion as a time of solemnity and remembrance. But it is also a time to commend the work of the people who keep the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) running every day and the flying public safe. …
Executive Council Statement

Attack on Working Americans

… Bal Harbour, FL Anti-worker interests are using their control of Congress and numerous state houses to launch an assault on working American families. Their broad legislative agenda would subvert workplace democracy and … retirees through sharp cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. While proposing to cut off welfare recipients and require them to work, they damn government job creation and child care initiatives. They rail against crime and the deterioration of … earnings, calls for a minimum wage of $5.69today. Clearly a minimum wage of $5.15 two years from now is astep in the right direction, but a modest one. The high point inpurchasing power of the minimum wage, in 1968, translates to aminimum …
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Imprisoned KCTU President Han Honored with Human Rights Award, Global Labor Movement Calls for His Release

… South Korea’s years of military rule in the 1980s, Han helped organize a union in his auto manufacturing plant. He went on to lead that union in an occupation of the auto plant with 1,700 other workers, demanding an end to layoff and severance concessions. Kim continued: "Together, we need to continue the struggle. We look forward to deepening our solidarity and strategic partnership with the AFL-CIO and all its affiliates." In honoring the powerful work of Han, the KCTU, Dennis Williams, president of the UAW, reminded the audience that: "Repression of workers and unions …
Executive Council Statement

America Wants To Work: A Call To Action

… The American labor movement, together with our community partners and allies, is committed to changing the national debate from the right wing’s destructive focus on deficits, budget cuts and austerity measures—which undermine workers’ rights, living … to focus on jobs that gives voice to the jobless, including unemployed veterans, students who cannot find meaningful work as they enter the labor force and communities of color that have been especially hard hit by the recession and the …
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Honoring the Contributions of all Working People: The Working People Weekly List

… Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List. … It's Time for a National Monument to … are looking to scare workers away from trying to unionize in their workplace. We just have to make sure it doesn’t work.” Wesleyan Graduate Students Win Vote to Unionize 86–7 : “Graduate students and Foreign Language Teaching Assistants … on our jobs, our unions, and our contracts.’” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Why More Workers Are Joining Unions Even in Right-To-Work States : “North Carolina is and will, for the foreseeable future, remain a so-called ‘right-to-work’ state in …
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AFL-CIO Honors Korean Labor Leader Han with Human Rights Award, Call for His Release From Prison

… in 1980s South Korea, Han, a former student activist, helped organize a union in his auto manufacturing plant. He went on to lead that union in an occupation of the auto plant with 1,700 other workers, demanding an end to layoff and severance … first direct vote in KCTU history, promising to organize a general strike to protest austerity economics and precarious work. Under his leadership, workers have mobilized against anti-worker labor legislation and government corruption in a … and perseverance of Korean workers and activists. Worker activism is the bulwark against closing civil society space and right-wing, corporate threats to basic labor rights and democratic norms. Han and the Korean labor movement serve as an …
Press Release

Historic Day for Investment in Working Families

… the House has taken a critical step forward for working families. Passage of this resolution puts America one step closer to providing major new funding for good jobs and our care infrastructure—including the first ever federal paid family and … across the country, passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act could not come at a more critical time. Thanks to the tireless efforts of House leadership, our country is on its way to building back better and stronger and protecting our democracy; and we look forward to the final passage of these bills …
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Celebrating the Accomplishments of Working People

… Across the country, Americans took time on Labor Day to celebrate working people and our accomplishments. … AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka discussed Labor Day's importance in … it was also meant to be a day to remember the power and purpose of working people united in unions. The tension between work and time off has always been a concern of the American labor movement. Work may be one of our core values, but it has a … DACA and what he has done for the working class thus far into his presidency." (VIDEO) NC Policy Watch: A Simple and Basic Right That’s Still Denied to Far Too Many American Workers : "Time off from work shouldn’t be impossible, but for too many of …