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Press Release

Dr. Miguel Cardona a Champion for Public Education

… Statement from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination of Dr. Miguel Cardona to be the secretary of education: President-elect Joe Biden’s selection of Dr. Miguel Cardona to lead the Department of … stalwart for everyone who works in our schools and every student who learns in them. We are confident that Cardona is the right public servant at the right time, and we look forward to working with him in 2021 and beyond. Contact: Carolyn Bobb (202) 637-5018 …
Speech

Redmond: Voter Suppression Is Discrimination

… A. Philip Randolph Institute Conference: Thank you Lance [Holmes] for the warm introduction. Before I begin I’d like to thank Jerry [King] and all of the APRI chapters here in Michigan for the incredible work you’re doing. And thank you to everybody whose work makes this conference possible. I’m thrilled to be joining you here … always be a regular guy...a Black kid from the south side of Chicago who navigated my way through life by trying to do the right thing. That’s the key. To do what’s right. Whether it’s for an individual, a community or a country. And that’s our …
Executive Council Statement

Leon Lynch

… Ever since Leon Lynch went to work at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube mill in East Chicago, Ind., and joined United Steelworkers Local 1011 more than a … the union that would last for nearly four decades. His first position was as a staff representative, and he was promoted to international representative after five years. Lynch then was sent to work with Local 7655, which represented employees of …
Executive Council Statement

Make Labor Law Reform a Priority in 2020

… reform as the most important public policy challenge facing our nation. For too long, politicians have paid lip service to the labor movement’s demand that Congress modernize and strengthen the laws protecting our freedom to join together and … law reform. In the spring of 2019, Rep. Bobby Scott (Va.) and Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.) introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act (H.R. 2474, S. 1306), landmark legislation that modernizes the National Labor Relations Act and … to exercise their freedom to organize and bargain. The PRO Act stiffens penalties for employer violations, ends “right to work” laws and guarantees bargaining rights for working people who are misclassified as independent contractors. It also …
Press Release

AFL-CIO Launches Alaska Ad Campaign Boosting the PRO Act

… launched a major ad campaign in Alaska this week, airing statewide television and radio ads promoting the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The advertising campaign is aligned with a national week of action, from April 26 to May 1, mobilizing working people to demand Senate passage of the landmark worker rights bill. “We’re taking nothing for …
Press Release

AFL-CIO Launches Arizona Ad Campaign Boosting the PRO Act

… major, bilingual ad campaign in Arizona this week, airing statewide television and radio ads promoting the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The advertising campaign is aligned with a national week of action, from April 26 to May 1, mobilizing working people to demand Senate passage of the landmark worker rights bill. “We’re taking nothing for …
Press Release

AFL-CIO Launches West Virginia Ad Campaign Boosting the PRO Act

… a major ad campaign in West Virginia this week, airing statewide television and radio ads promoting the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The advertising campaign is aligned with a national week of action, from April 26 to May 1, mobilizing working people to demand Senate passage of the landmark worker rights bill.  “The PRO Act is a …
Press Release

The AFL-CIO on Haiti Humanitarian Crisis

… been treated .  Workers’ rights are immigrant rights. Immigrants and refugees have always made essential contributions to our economy. America’s unions are committed to rebuilding the safety net and ladders of opportunity for everyone who lives and works here, and we can’t do that without … been used to keep workers poor in our country and around the world.  “We have to do everything in our power to make this right. It’s not enough to say, ‘I feel your pain.’ We must have the energy to fix it,” said AFL-CIO Executive Vice President …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 45: Janus Resolution

… WHEREAS, working people should have the freedom and power to have a better life; and WHEREAS, unions promote and defend the freedom of working people to do just that: make a decent living, to support our families, to have work-life balance, to access important public services like good schools and quality health care, and to retire with dignity; and WHEREAS, all these freedoms are under attack by wealthy corporations and right-wing politicians who rig the economy and the political system in their favor, ensuring that they get richer while …
Executive Council Statement

The General Agreement on Trade in Services

… New Orleans, Louisiana U.S. trade negotiators at the World Trade Organization (WTO) are currently seeking to expand an existing trade agreement called the General Agreement on Trade in Services, or GATS. Negotiators are not only … unions and other civil society groups from around the world. The assessment is necessary to guide negotiators in their work and to enable politicians and the public to provide educated input into these negotiations. As a condition of future … the core labor standards, which are defined by the International Labor Organization to include freedom of association, the right to organize and bargain collectively, and prohibitions on child labor, forced labor, and discrimination in employment. …