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Fighting Against the Gigification of the Entire Economy: 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. … Want Your Hotel Room Cleaned Every Day? … average.” Black Workers Died on the Job at the Highest Rate, AFL-CIO Report Says : “People of color are dying while at work more than others, the AFL-CIO said in its latest report: ‘Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect.’ Looking at the number … the US, and the climate-change provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. ‘We’re looking at how do we capture this moment right now when federal dollars are subsidizing whole industries,’ Estrada said. She talked of ‘sectoral strategies’ to …
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Protect and Enhance Essential: What Working People Are Doing This Week

… Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the … we're engaged in this week. … Actors' Equity: What are the resources available, and what steps can each member take, to ensure their workplaces are safe and inclusive? View our full Workplace Inclusion Lab webinar or read the transcript in … — Actors' Equity (@ActorsEquity) August 4, 2020 AFGE: More than 1 million veterans — 13.2% of all veterans — work for state & local govts. The Senate’s failure to provide crucial aid will take away thousands of jobs from these …
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Working People Champion, AFSCME Member Greg Casar Wins Texas Primary for Congress

… primary for Texas' 35th congressional district. From the beginning of the campaign, Casar ran on issues important to working families and voters rewarded him for being on our side. … When he won, Casar spoke about the fact that his victory … member of the Council, Casar sponsored a law that gave workers in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio paid sick days and worked to raise the minimum wage for Austin's lowest-paid employees to $15 an hour while also providing them health care benefits. Learn more about Greg Casar and his run for Congress . …
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Workers' Leverage is Here to Stay: 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. … Workers’ Leverage Is Here to Stay : “American workers have the upper hand over their employers right now—and there are tentative signs it could last, even as economic storm clouds gather….There were 661 new union filings …
Legislative Alert

Letter Opposing Three Bills That Assault the Freedom of Working People to Form and Join Unions

… Dear Chair Foxx and Ranking Member Scott:   The AFL-CIO urges you to oppose three anti-union bills that will come before the Committee on Education and the Workforce this week. Taken … of any opportunity to balance carefully, on a case-by-case basis, tribal sovereignty interests with workers’ fundamental right to organize a union in situations where these interests may conflict. For example, in San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino … of sovereignty for tribal governments. This bill, however, would distort this principle in order to squash workers’ right to collective bargaining and freedom of association in every single case where tribal employers seek to cheat their …
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Trumka to Federal Mediators: Labor-Management Partnerships Key to Future of Work

… Thank you, Allison [Beck],  for that introduction. I appreciate your leadership and your friendship. I am honored to be here today for this important discussion. I look forward to having a real dialogue about the future of collective bargaining. To my sisters and brothers here from labor, it is always good to see you. Thank you for the work you are doing each and every day to make life better for working people. Our job has never been more important. To my … a growing number of Americans are both angry and anxious. And who can blame them? They work hard. They pay taxes. They do right by their families and communities. Yet they can feel their future slipping away. This anger is manifest in the 2016 …
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Cleveland's Working People Speak Out Against Trump: Wanda's Story

… "Trump tries to talk a good game about trade policy, but how is someone like me supposed to believe a word he says when his own business … My name is Wanda Navarro. I moved to Cleveland when I was 18 years old and have lived and worked here ever since. I work as a garment worker [and] we proudly make fine men’s wear right here in the Cleveland area. I am a proud member of Workers United Local 10 [an affiliate of North Shore AFL-CIO …
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Trade Unions Demand Governments Address Gender-based Violence in the World of Work

… and implement International Labor Organization Convention 190 (C190), on ending violence and harassment in the world of work. … Read the statement from the International Trade Union Confederation in English , Spanish or French . C190 was adopted … at the International Labor Organization. The AFL-CIO and trade unions around the world campaigned for more than a decade to win this important new global standard, and now are leading the fight to see its framework adopted by governments and … workers from escaping or challenging dangerous conditions. The C190 framework emphasizes that everyone has the fundamental right to be free from violence and harassment at work, and requires governments adopt an inclusive, integrated and …
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Understanding Respirators and COVID-19

… Español English … You might be in a workplace where your employer should be providing respirators to keep you safe from the coronavirus.   … Your employer may not be doing enough to keep you safe. Learn more about your rights to a safe workplace and how collective action with your co-workers can improve workplace safety and save lives. …        …   …
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Trumka to Florida AFL-CIO: Working People Must Write the Economic Rules

… Thank you, Brother Mike [Williams]. I appreciate your leadership and your commitment to working families across Florida. You’re a powerful leader of a strong and growing movement. I’m proud to call you my brother. Good afternoon, sisters and brothers. I want to take this moment to recognize the good work all of you have done here in Florida over the past few years. Your political activism has been impressive. You’ve had to … are too high. You can’t support workers if you want to lower our pay. Trump wants to destroy labor unions. His position on right to work is “100 percent.” He is refusing to bargain with workers at his hotel in Las Vegas. And he said he wouldn’t …