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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Actors and Writers Explain How Supporters and Fans Can Support Them

Actors and writers are on strike, fighting for their future, and fans and supporters are wondering how they can help. Here are what members of SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are asking supporters to do.
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SAG-AFTRA Members on Strike Deserve a Fair Contract

It is outrageous that Hollywood executives have chosen greed over the actors and performing artists who help to drive the entertainment industry. We stand in active solidarity with the 160,000 members of SAG-AFTRA as they begin striking today for fair wages, stronger working conditions, a voice on the job and a more secure future for their craft.
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Supreme Court’s Decision Will Not Stop Workers from Exercising Our Right to Strike

Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Glacier Northwest Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters:
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AFL-CIO Stands in Strong Solidarity with WGAE and WGAW Members on Strike

Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on the announcement that Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) members are on strike:
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AFL-CIO Statement on the Repression of Labor Rights in Korea

In advance of President Yoon’s State Visit to the United States, the AFL-CIO calls on both governments to take concrete actions to reverse the Republic of Korea’s dangerous course of repression against workers and to use their leadership roles to advance the rights of workers at home and around the world.
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: New Jersey State AFL-CIO Stands with Striking Rutgers Workers

The Rutgers AAUP-AFT Academic Worker Union represents graduate workers, faculty, postdocs and EOF counsellors. These workers have been without a contract for 287 days and are on day 4 of a strike. Their priority is resolving a contract that will serve as the foundational agreement for future generations of Rutgers AAUP-AFT members.