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Unions for All: 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 Great turn out for AFGE Local 131 informational picket. #1U … safety violations. Follow @Fightfor15LA @NorCalFF15 to support frontline workers demanding dignity and accountability at work. #UnionsForAll #CALeg #1u https://t.co/LV4GO4jZ5q — California Labor Federation (@CaliforniaLabor) February 15, 2022 …
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Build It Union: 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: Veterans deserve the right to join a union. It's time for @lisamurkowski and @SenDanSullivan to #PassThePROAct and open up meaningful employment … @PFTLocal3 @AFTPA @PFT400 — PA AFL-CIO (@PaAFL_CIO) November 8, 2021 Rhode Island AFL-CIO: "working people have a right to have a say everywhere decisions are being made in the state of Rhode Island" RI AFL-CIO President George Nee's …
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Bluegrass State Union Members Accept Teacher’s Invitation to Teach Labor History at Her High School

… Coomes’ “teacher’s certificate” at Henderson County High School in Henderson, Ky., his hometown. “It said, ‘China is a right-to-work state since 1949,’” explained the Henderson-based Tri-County Labor Council president, who just finished a second daylong …
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7 Things You Need to Know About Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch

… … Update: AFL-CIO sent a letter to Senators opposing Gorsuch's nomination. Judge Neil Gorsuch was nominated to fill the current vacancy on the Supreme Court. … that workers' interim earnings should be disregarded when calculating back pay awards where a hospital unlawfully reduced work hours. The NLRB reasoned that, on balance, workers who take on additional outside jobs should retain the benefit of … litigation addiction and try to "win elections rather than lawsuits," he directed criticism only at "the Left," not the Right and conservative legal advocacy groups. (Neil Gorsuch, "Liberals 'N' Lawsuits," National Review Online, Feb. 7, 2005) …
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If Trump Wants Meat Plants Open, He Should Protect Their Workers

… clear and decisive action from the White House. President Donald Trump has given us more confusion than solutions, failing to use his executive authority to protect working people. In times of crisis, the Defense Production Act is an important tool … facing similar PPE shortages, and many plants have become coronavirus hot spots. No one knows whether it is safe to go to work because the administration has utterly failed to plan for the tens of millions of tests we need to prevent exposure. … an answer to the lack of lifesaving equipment: America’s workers. Trump needs to use the Defense Production Act for the right reasons, effectively and swiftly. This op-ed originally appeared in The New York Times . …
Executive Council Statement

Investor Protection and Corporate Accountability

… jobs.  With each passing year, fewer workers have pensions or adequate health care while executive compensation continues to explode, as documented on the AFL-CIO’s Executive PayWatch website.  In the past year, we have seen scandalous examples of … tens of millions of dollars in bonuses and ordering $15,000 bottles of wine—an amount larger than a year’s worth of work at the minimum wage.  At Pfizer and Home Depot, failed executives left with exit packages exceeding $200 million each. … consultants, the election of company directors (requiring a majority vote) and, for the first time this year, the right of long-term investors to nominate their own directors to corporate boards.  The AFL-CIO and our affiliates have worked …
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Get to Know AFL-CIO's Affiliates: Air Line Pilots Association

… all 55 affiliates . … Name of Union:  Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) Mission : The mission of ALPA is to promote and champion all aspects of aviation safety throughout all segments of the aviation community; to represent, in both specific and general respects, the collective interests of all pilots in commercial aviation; to assist … Joseph Genovese is the vice president–finance/treasurer. Current Number of Members : More than 61,000. Members Work As : Airline pilots. Industries Represented : The airline industry in the United States and Canada; serving as the …
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When Donald Trump Had a Choice, He Chose Nonunion Labor for His Construction Projects with IBEW

… nominee's projects reveals that he hires union when project labor agreements or dominant market share forces him to. But more than 60% of his projects developed outside New York City and Atlantic City—which includes most of his recent … contract at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. 9. Most of Trump's recent projects have been in anti-union and "right to work" states. Where the law is different, his choices are different: "For every union-built development outside of New York …
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Once 'Essential,' Then Expendable, American Workers are Transforming the Economy

… worker toiling in the sweltering summer heat. … Last year alone $6.5 trillion flowed from the bottom 90% of wage earners to the top 1%. That means the janitor who cleans our child’s school, the nurse who cares for our sick father and the grocery … and nurses in Maine and North Carolina who wore trash bags as makeshift protections against COVID before organizing unions to win safety protections every worker deserves. All across America, workers’ power is growing by the day as more demand the … corporations haven’t moved with the times. At every turn, working people meet resistance from our employers when we try to form a union. Public approval of unions is the highest in my lifetime, a 57-year peak according to a 2022 Gallup survey …
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Shuler: Women Are Transforming the Labor Movement

… AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler delivered the following remarks as prepared to WILL Empower: Thank you Sheri Davis, Lane Windham, Joe McCartin and Marilyn Sneiderman. It’s an honor to be here. I want … on picket lines—and demanding change behind the scenes in workplaces all across the country. And leadership development work is THE critical foundation to opening the floodgates to the change we are all hungry for. We at the AFL-CIO are excited … enough yet—I want to encourage you to think again. Because while you’re talking yourself out of it, there’s a guy right next to you, who is less qualified, saying, “Yeah, I can do that!” Take that next step even if it might make you …