Tag: AFL-CIO
Congress needs to pass emergency legislation at the scale and urgency...
By WILLIAM SAMUEL
Director
AFL-CIO Government Affairs
In response to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Labor Movement is mobilizing to protect our members who are...
AFGE urges members of Congress to protect rights of DoD workers...
On Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, the White House formally published its memo giving Defense Secretary Mark Esper the authority to deny Department of Defense...
The Trump Budget: The other shoe drops
When Congress passed a $2 trillion tax cut for corporations and the wealthy in 2017, the AFL-CIO warned that the obscene cost of the...
After successfully negotiating enforceable worker protections, AFL-CIO endorses ‘New NAFTA’
Washington – After many rounds of negotiations, with the support of allies like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard...
Lean In Circles for union tradeswomen launches St. Louis pilot program
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Correspondent
Lean In Circles for Union Tradeswomen, a new program designed to support and empower women in the union building trades, has officially...
Trumka calls on lawmakers to strengthen labor laws through Protecting the...
Washington – AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (UMWA) testified before the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions May 8, calling...
It’s time to rebuild and modernize America’s infrastructure
It’s Infrastructure Week, a time to call on our elected leaders to rebuild and modernize America’s crumbling infrastructure.
This year’s Infrastructure Week comes at a...
Trumka: Democratic-run U.S. House ‘has stood on the side of workers’
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
Washington (PAI) — The new Democratic-run U.S. House “has stood on the side of workers” on issues ranging from defending...
Workers Memorial Day programs planned in Missouri and Southern Illinois
Remember the fallen, renew the fight for safe jobs
Nearly 50 years ago, Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act, promising every worker the...