Voting Rights

What We’re Doing

Speech

Trumka to Washington State Labor Council Convention: America Is Looking to Us for Leadership

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's remarks to Washington State Labor Council Convention.
Speech

Shuler: We Need Action to Protect Our Voting and Organizing Rights and with It, Our Democracy

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler's remarks at the Democracy For All press conference with labor leaders, civil rights leaders and Texas state lawmakers outside the House of Labor.
Speech

Trumka: Without the Right to Vote and the Right to Form a Union, There Is No Democracy

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's remarks at the Democracy For All press conference held with labor leaders, civil rights leaders and Texas state lawmakers outside the House of Labor.

Democracy for All: Pass the PRO Act and S. 1 Press Conference
Press Release

Senate’s Failure to Proceed on Voting Rights Legislation Damaging to Democracy

Statement from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the For the People Act (S. 1) and the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act (S. 420) after the Senate blocked S. 1.
Executive Council Statement

America’s Labor Movement Will Defend America’s Democracy

America’s labor movement is determined and prepared to defend our democracy from anyone who would seek to prevent eligible voters from voting, to prevent our votes from being counted, to prevent the electors we choose from being seated, or to prevent those electors’ choice as president and vice president from being inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2021.