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The Future of Work in the Digital Age
In Washington, D.C., yesterday, leaders and advocates for working people came together to discuss the future of work. The occasion was the first meeting of the AFL-CIO Commission on...
We Need Equal Pay Data
An effort that would require big companies to reveal salary data by gender and race to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was blocked by the Trump administration. This is...
AFL-CIO's Trumka: 93,000 Jobs Outsourced in Trump's First Year
On Tuesday Trump touted his tax plan during his first State of the Union address. In it, he claimed that thanks to his policies jobs were coming back to the United States, but like most things that...
AFL-CIO's Trumka: Trump is Actively Hurting Workers
After a year of broken promises, constant investigations and scandals Trump is seeing his support plummet all over the country. Even union members who helped Trump win vital states in the Midwest are...
Catholic Church Files Brief Supporting Union in Janus Case
The Supreme Court is set to hear Janus v. AFSCME on February 26th and both sides are getting all of their documents in. One such document is called an amicus brief, or a friend of the court brief....
MLK Day is Our Day
All movements derive from the union movement. The will and desire to be treated fairly and have access to opportunity and progress is almost the sole mission of all social, economic and progressive...
AFL-CIO Pressures Nike to Pay Their Taxes
For years, many on the left have been alleging that companies have been storing profits in low tax countries to avoid paying taxes in the United States. While there was a lot of circumstantial...
Labor Wins in 2017 Elections
Last night there were many labor victories including Boston Mayor and former head of the Boston Building Trades Marty Walsh getting reelected, New York rejecting a Constitutional Convention and...
AFL-CIO Maps Out Labor's Future
This week, the AFL-CIO met in St. Louis for their 2017 convention. Along with re-electing their governing board, the delegates passed a number of resolutions. These resolutions will govern the issues...
Everybody Re-elected at the AFL-CIO
This weekend, union leaders began the 2017 AFL-CIO convention. The convention, which happens every four years, included the election of the AFL-CIO leadership including President, Secretary/Treasurer...