In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will decide a case called Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 that threatens to take away the freedom of working people to join together and negotiate for better wages and working conditions. What We’re Doing Select typeArticleEventMedia HitMultimediaReportResolutionSpeechStatement Apply May 29, 2018 Press Release In the Face of Janus, AFL-CIO Launches Nationwide Ad Campaign Calling on Working People to Organize The AFL-CIO today announced a major, national print and digital ad campaign calling on workers to join together in the face of continued corporate assaults on the freedom to join together in union. February 27, 2018 Media Hit Cathy Feingold Writes About Attacks on Public Employees Rights in Equal Times February 22, 2018 Blog In Janus Case, Working People Continue Fight Championed by Martin Luther King Jr. Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. joined the sanitation strike in Memphis, Tenn., who carried signs that boldly proclaimed "I am a man" at a time when many employers rejected that very statement. King and the working people of Memphis fought for the freedom to join together in union and to be treated with dignity and respect on the job. December 7, 2017 Press Release Trump Administration SCOTUS Brief Threatens Working People’s Livelihoods While President Trump boasts his support for working families, his administration is advocating a position in the United States Supreme Court that disregards decades of settled law and threatens our livelihoods. October 12, 2017 Blog What Working People Are Saying About the Janus Supreme Court Case A case that is headed to the Supreme Court, Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, is an attack on the rights of working people. Working people are speaking out against it.