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Get to Know AFL-CIO's Affiliates: Farm Labor Organizing Committee

… our affiliates is the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). … Name of Union:  Farm Labor Organizing Committee Mission : To challenge the deplorable conditions of the broader workforce that remains voiceless, powerless and invisible to mainstream America by giving farm workers a voice in the decisions that affect them and bringing all parties to the table … and president of FLOC. Justin Flores serves as vice president and Christiana Wagner serves as secretary-treasurer. Members Work As : Farm workers. Industries Represented :   Agriculture throughout the United States. History : Baldemar Velasquez and …
Executive Council Statement

Building Clean Energy Jobs in the Global Solar Supply Chain

… For years, the Chinese government has carried out a systematic and widespread campaign to detain and persecute millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic and Muslim people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region … demonstrate the government’s mass detention, torture, forced labor and cultural persecution of Turkic Muslims amount to crimes against humanity. The AFL-CIO remains particularly concerned by the government’s systemic use of forced labor, which is known to pervade the global solar energy industry. The sector’s dependence on China for primary materials and manufacturing makes …
Press Release

AFL-CIO Press Conference Ends with TPP Critics Being Locked Out of USTR

… and Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre gathered with critics of Fast Track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to reinforce the message that working people won’t stand for another bad trade deal. At the end of the press conference, a … Partnership and Fast Track,” DeLauro said. “Thank you for pressing Congress and the administration and saying do the right thing for the American people.” Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen looked out at the crowd and … on the side of the American worker?” Cohen said. “Are you a corporate democrat or a people’s democrat? We had 30 years of work for less. Workers Locked Out of USTR – YouTube Video and Twitter pictures and video Read:  AFL-CIO Analysis of TPP and …
Press Release

DACA Empowers Thousands of Hardworking Aspiring Citizens

… created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, offering a measure of increased security and stability to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to our country as children. Thanks to DACA, hardworking women and men such as AFT member Maria Dominguez have been able to contribute more fully to our communities, as well as to stand together to claim their rights at work. We need everyone in our country to be able to live and work without fear. That is why the labor movement continues to …
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Fast-Food Strike Supersized!

… Fast-food and other low-wage workers in more than 60 cities—from major metropolises like New York City to smaller cities such as Missoula, Mont .—walked off the job Thursday as the fight for a living wage and the right to join a union without retaliation continues to grow. Shaniqua Davis, who works at a Bronx McDonald’s and is the mother of a …
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NFLPA and NFL Announce New Policy to Enforce Concussion Protocol

… The NFL Players Association ( NFLPA ), in conjunction with the National Football League, strengthened its commitment to the health and safety of its players last week by announcing an agreement to enforce the league’s game-day concussion protocol and discipline clubs that violate it. Under the new policy, which … push for improved standards and accountability for player health and safety. [This] announcement is another step in the right direction.” …
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Culinary Union Celebrates Las Vegas Strip Becoming 100% Union with Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su

… Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, … covering more than 4,000 of The Venetian Resort team members has been a fight 25 years in the making. “We are proud to celebrate a new day here at the Venetian,” said Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Union. “The fight to … in Culinary Union’s 89-year history. From standing up to anti-union billionaire Sheldon Adelson in 1999, to winning the right at the U.S. Supreme Court to picket and protest on sidewalks in front of Las Vegas casinos, and now securing a historic …
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Worker Wins: The Community Showed Up for Us

… community showed up for us. There’s definitely been a lot of tension, a lot of frustrating times, but it’s also been great to learn about the power of solidarity and collective action.” The NewsGuild of New York Members at Scholastic Win Raises and Health and Safety Protections:  Members of the NewsGuild of New York—an affiliate of The NewsGuild-CWA—who work at Scholastic,  ratified a new contract  on Friday . The agreement provides general wage increases of 4.75% upon … The deals secure cost-of-living adjustments, let workers reach top wages in three years instead of eight and protect their right to strike over plant closures. The major gains were secured after UAW members went on a nationwide stand-up strike that …
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Worker Wins: When Workers Stand Together, We Win

… with rallies, petitions, conversations with customers and more. This TA comes after workers overwhelmingly voted to approve a strike authorization after their previous contract expired without a new agreement in place. Members will soon … after the union was voluntarily recognized in 2022. Members include writers, producers, editors and other staff who work in storytelling at the audio company. The path to this massive victory wasn’t an easy one—the union dealt with multiple … nearly half a million dollars in immediate pay increases, new minimum starting salaries, severance of up to 16 weeks, the right to bargain over any implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace and so much more. In addition to …
Speech

Trumka Outlines Labor's Agenda at House Democratic Issues Retreat

… Good morning everyone. It is great to be here. Leader Pelosi, thank you for that kind introduction. I’ve worked with many Congressional leaders over the years, … a doubt that labor has never had a better friend or stronger ally than Nancy Pelosi. Your door is always open. Our staffs work well together. And most importantly, the voices of working people are being heard in the halls of power. I also want to … life isn’t getting better for regular people, the Democratic Party and America’s labor unions leave the door open for the right-wing to beat us in the messaging war. We have good ideas—but we don’t always know how to articulate them, and too …