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'Right to Work' Designed to Keep Black Workers Poor

… past discriminatory practices in organized labor’s history as reason for implementing our state’s currently pending "right to work" law, along with other anti-worker measures such as ending prevailing wage and minimum wage requirements. … To claim …
Speech

Trumka: Working People’s Plan for Reopening the Economy the Right Way

… Richard Trumka delivered the following remarks on a call with reporters:  Good morning. Thank you for joining this call. Right now, amid this global pandemic, it is difficult to see clearly. But this country is finally starting to see workers. America sees the grocery store worker restocking the … people would have died. Workers also deserve stronger protection against retaliation. We must have the right to refuse to work if we fear exposure to the virus. Just look at Amazon. Chris Smalls was fired for exposing the dangerous conditions he …
Executive Council Statement

Opposition to the Misnamed “Academic Bill of Rights”

… worker rights and basic freedom of expression and thought; WHEREAS, it is especially critical that institutions vital to the free expression of ideas, such as the press and higher education, be free from government interference; WHEREAS, a concerted campaign has surfaced to convey the erroneous impression that   college and university professors are all left-wing radicals exposing students only … that would provide for government monitoring of curriculum, including reading materials in the classroom, to ensure that right-wing ideas are given more prominence; monitoring of faculty hiring practices to ensure that more conservative faculty …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 6: Safe Jobs–Every Worker's Fundamental Right

… The right to a safe job is a fundamental worker right and a core union value. Every worker should be able to go to work and return home safely at the end of the day. For …
Convention Resolution

Resolution 23: Safe Jobs—Every Worker's Right

… The right to a safe job is a fundamental worker right and a core union value. Every worker should be able to go to work and return home safely at the end of the day. …
Speech

Trumka to National Consumers League: We're Not Too Poor To Do the Right Thing

… words of welcome. And thank you all for the honor of this recognition from an organization that does such important work. You see, paychecks and purchases go hand-in-hand in America, so when the National Consumers League fights to protect consumers on issues including fair and equitable access to credit, food safety and safe housing, you are fighting … of addressing social and economic justice in America today. And there’s one point I want to make about doing the right thing, about doing things like fighting against predatory bank lending, about organizing against discrimination, and …
Press Release

AFL-CIO Affirms the Right of Everyone to Make Their Own Health Care Decisions

… Court’s decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization : Today’s decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade is a devastating blow to working women and families across this country. We strongly believe that everyone should have control over their own … wages and good benefits. This is just the latest in a harmful string of attacks on our fundamental rights, including the right to vote and to collectively bargain in the workplace, and points to an alarming trend that other well-settled rights …
Executive Council Statement

One Nation Working Together

… hit the wall.  Millions are unemployed, with little recovery in sight.  A record number of Americans who want desperately to work have been jobless for more than 6 months.  At the same time, Wall Street continues to roll up big profits. Banks and corporations have made off with trillions of public dollars, while small businesses can’t …
Executive Council Statement

Honoring the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and The 40th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

… rights legislation—closed one door on the tragic practice of legal segregation in our nation’s history and opened another to realizing, at long last, the promise of equal protection under the law. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in … the decision had a profound impact on American society, 50 years later the promise of Brown v. Board of Education has yet to be truly fulfilled. As a major study by the Harvard Civil Rights Project recently showed, our nation’s schools are … at closing the achievement gap. We must do more than merely commemorate Brown a half century after its passage; we must work with urgency to achieve its promise and its purposes for today’s students and for future generations of students. This …