Future of Work

What We’re Doing

Executive Council Statement

Disrupt Inequality by Demanding Full Rights and Protections for Digital Platform Workers

The AFL-CIO opposes any special carve-outs or exemptions for platform companies to deny workers the rights and protections of employees.
Blog

Young Active Labor Leaders Chart the Future of the Labor Movement in Texas

Last week, the Texas Young Active Labor Leaders (YALL) hosted their second biennial YALL Summit in Austin. Nearly 250 young labor leaders, union activists and community allies joined together to chart the course of the labor movement in Texas and beyond.
Speech

Trumka: Worker Bargaining Power Key to Future of Work

If we make political and moral choices to ensure technology is a tool for broadly shared prosperity, we can foster a new era of economic equality and opportunity.
Blog

Young Workers on the Future of Work: Courtney Jenkins

Last month, the AFL-CIO conducted a discussion on the future of work. Among the panelists that day were a group of young workers. Let's continue our more in-depth discussion with those young workers. Next up is Postal Worker (APWU) Courtney Jenkins.
Blog

Young Workers on the Future of Work: Charleeka Thompson

Earlier this month, AFL-CIO conducted a discussion on the future of work. Among the panelists that day were a group of young workers. Let's have a bit more of an in-depth discussion in the coming weeks with those young workers. First up is USW member Charleeka L. Thompson.
Speech

At Northern Kentucky University Labor-Management Conference, Trumka Looks to the Future

The future of work provides an unmatched opportunity for cooperation and collaboration, communication and compromise. We can harness technology to raise pay, make jobs safer and achieve real work-life balance. We can usher in a workforce of unprecedented skill and professionalism. We can use this moment in history to redefine the relationship between labor and management, joining in partnership to build an economy that works for all of us and saving our democracy in the process.