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Executive Council Statement

Organizing and Mobilizing for Growth

… Collective bargaining is more critical than ever in order for workers to earn our fair share of the wealth we create, to strengthen our middle class and to move our economy away from the trap of low wages and high consumer debt.  Yet, over the last several decades, workers have effectively been stripped of our right to form unions to bargain for a better life.  Protections in existing laws have been slashed and coverage has been … effect dramatic change – to restore and extend protections to workers who have been denied these rights.  Through the hard work of our affiliates, their members, and our partners at every level and with support from the Obama Administration and our …
Executive Council Statement

Bush Cabinet Appointments

… statement was approved by the AFL-CIO Executive Council in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 2001. The AFL-CIO is committed to working with President-elect Bush and his administration to advance the interests and well-being of working Americans and … issues. Most of the nominees do not support our agenda to benefit working families. But we have confidence that we can work together to find common ground, and recognize that it is divisive as well as self-defeating to refuse to support … We believe it is the job of ordinary citizens to pass final judgement on cabinet appointees, just as it is our legal right to elect the president and members of the U.S. Congress. The working men and women and the unions of the AFL-CIO will, …
Executive Council Statement

Strengthen the Law to Give Workers Real Bargaining Power

… workplaces and on picket lines, at the bargaining table and the ballot box, working people are taking collective action to improve our jobs, our schools, our communities and our democracy. Fed up with decades of rigged economic rules that have … no binding process for reaching a first contract when a majority of workers make the decision to bargain collectively. The right of workers to make our voices heard through strikes, pickets and other activities continues to be fundamentally … a process for workers and employers to reach a first agreement; and protect the right to strike and eliminate “right to work” nationally. The Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2018 (H.R. 6238) would ensure that all public-sector workers …
Executive Council Statement

Supreme Court: Judge Brett Kavanaugh Is the Wrong Man for the Job

… Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court, established a clear record on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the … funders, which seek to gut the ability of all Americans to have accessible quality health care and deny workers their right to representation by unions, have provided their stamp of approval to this list. As one senator concluded: “Any judge … of Balance on the Federal Bench) that “[w]orking families have many rights protected by federal law. These include the right to form unions free from employer intimidation and retaliatory discharges; to be free from discrimination because of …
Executive Council Statement

Trade Unionism and Democracy in the 21st Century

… Trade Unionism and Democracy in the 21st Century  March 07, 2007 Las Vegas AFL-CIO Executive Council statement We resolve to fulfill the yearning of the human spirit for liberty, justice and community; to advance individual and associational … of the International Labor Organization (ILO)   and the   ILO’s 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.  The words in these documents are weapons in the ongoing fight for human freedom and justice. The struggle for … by organization, in the fabric of civil society. Trade unions are an essential building block in that process. The right of workers to organize and bargain collectively is the most fundamental form of democratic participation. The very …
Press Release

AFL-CIO Statement on Seattle Vote Allowing ‘Ride-Share’ Drivers to Organize

… Trumka on yesterday’s vote by the Seattle City Council allowing drivers for ‘ride-share’ companies such as Uber and Lyft to organize: The “on-demand” or “gig” economy isn’t really run by apps or machines; it’s powered by the labor of working … progress in the fight to extend collective bargaining rights to all workers, regardless of whether they drive for Uber or work in a factory.  Whether your work is online or offline, everyone deserves the right to speak up together on the job.  We applaud the drivers for taking a stand on this important issue, and stand with …
Executive Council Statement

Union-Busting Executive Orders

… collective bargaining and eviscerating the due process rights of federal employees, the EOs virtually eliminate the right of federal employees to form unions and negotiate for fair treatment at work. The AFL-CIO will join AFGE and the other unions that represent federal employees in fighting this unlawful attempt at …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 23: Fair and Comprehensive Immigration Reform

… R e f er r e d t o   th e Resolutions C ommit t ee WHEREAS, there are 11 million undocumented immigrants contributing to the American economy and community that are being denied basic rights and protections; WHEREAS, the County of Alameda is … all undocumented workers, the strengthening of family reunification as the basis of immigration policy, protection of the right to organize for all workers, the repeal of employer  sanctions, and opposition to guest worker programs; and WHEREAS, … to ensure full labor and workplace rights and protections for all workers regardless of immigration status, including the right to organize and enforce worker protections without retaliation; BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the AFL-CIO supports …
Executive Council Statement

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers (ORIT)

… social safety nets, and forced millions into poverty. The proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas threatens to grant even more rights to corporations while doing nothing to protect workers or the environment. Never has the solidarity of workers across the … to promote the fundamental worker rights embodied in the ILO Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work; to demand that trade and investment agreements incorporate labor and environmental rights; to advocate for economic …
Legislative Alert

Letter Concerning the Nomination of John Ring to the NLRB

… a federation of 55 national and international unions representing 12.5 million working men and women, I am writing to urge your careful scrutiny of John Ring’s nomination to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) when Mr. Ring comes … Board was established by Congress more than 80 years ago to enforce the National Labor Relations Act, which protects the right of working people to join together with their co-workers to advocate for better pay, benefits, safety, and other … determinations made while Specialty Healthcare was governing law, even where employees have already exercised their right to vote for union representation and the employer agreed that the bargaining unit was appropriate. In this context, we …