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… The AFL-CIO is committed to protecting all workers, regardless of immigration status, and ensuring we are all safe and can access needed testing, … for immigrant workers across a range of issue areas with the federal COVID-19 response, and identifies priority issues to address in ongoing state and federal negotiations. This document is meant to inform our advocacy and representation as … Charge' Lo que los trabajadores necesitan saber sobre la "carga pública" What Working People Need to Know About Return to Work, Recall Rights and Employment Reverification … Access to Testing and Treatment For those who have health insurance …

… PowerTools for Organizers   … This training teaches entry-level member activists and staff organizers the fundamentals to win campaigns for union recognition. Whether your team is working on external organizing campaigns in “right to work” states or preparing for contract fights at existing local unions, OI trainings will teach the principles and skills …

… change in America’s labor movement, passed away Feb. 1, 2021 at the age of 86. Sweeney was one of four children born to Irish immigrants in a working-class Bronx neighborhood shortly after the Great Depression. His parents, James and Agnes … the struggles and the pride of working people. Sweeney was interested in politics from childhood. His mother took him to see Franklin Delano Roosevelt's funeral train. He often spoke about his father’s loyalty to his union, the Transport Workers Union (TWU), and its colorful president, Mike Quill, with a sense of what it did for his …

… just a few benefits:  Workers in labor unions make 18% more in wages than our nonunion counterparts.  We are more likely to have health care benefits. More than nine out of 10 union members have access to employer-provided health insurance, compared to 68% of nonunion workers, according to the Department of Labor. We work in safer workplaces. One study found job sites that were unionized have lost-time claims at a 31% lower rate than … happiest and healthiest on Earth.  Life is better in a union. That’s why this Labor Day we’re celebrating our fundamental right to organize by reminding workers across the world—it’s better in a union!    …     …

… is at the highest it’s been in half a century. Working people know giant corporations and tech firms cannot be trusted to self-regulate this revolutionary technology. Employers are currently deploying increasingly sophisticated AI-enhanced technologies without workers’ consent in order to hire, monitor, evaluate, discipline and even fire workers.  This is just the beginning: The New York Times reports that nearly half of all jobs will be exposed to some form of AI automation that will disrupt and displace workers in the coming years.  Of those who will see their jobs …