2017 Convention

What We’re Doing

Convention Resolution

Resolution 6: Making Health Care For All a Reality

We should move forward toward making health care a basic right for everyone.
Speech

Trumka to AFL-CIO 2017 Convention on Politics: Our support must be based on issues

Richard L. Trumka gave the following remarks at the beginning of the third day of the 2017 AFL-CIO Convention.
Convention Resolution

Resolution 7: Reviving Our Communities and Putting Millions to Work Rebuilding the Country

The AFL-CIO and its affiliates support a substantial, long-term infrastructure investment plan, one that lifts up working people, grows the economy, creates high-road jobs and provides increased opportunity for people of color and women.
Convention Resolution

Resolution 44: Resolution in Support of Public Education

The AFL-CIO joins with organizations across the country in support of public education and our continued commitment to the highest quality public education for all students.
Convention Resolution

Resolution 43: I AM 2018

The AFL-CIO supports the I AM 2018 Program to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Convention Resolution

Resolution 25: Criminal Justice Reform: A System of Corrections and Rehabilitation That Prioritizes Corrections and Rehabilitation

The AFL-CIO shall actively support criminal justice reforms based upon previously passed policy positions: community policing, sentencing reform, removal of employment obstacles for the formerly incarcerated, restrictions on for-profit prisons and voting rights restoration.