“For too long,” writes AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, “lip service has been paid to infrastructure without making the investments we need. It’s time to build. The bipartisan infrastructure framework secured by President Biden would be the single greatest […]
“The core principle of organized labor in America,” write Randi Weingarten, Mary Kay Henry and Lee Saunders in The Hill, “has always been a commitment to fairness and opportunity for all working people – that’s why […]
Dominic Trumfio is a member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 10-208 in Chicago. Trumfio is a theater musician, associate music director at his church and musical director for the Kiki Queens, a highly sought-after volunteer […]
Kyla Hsia is a senior digital strategist at AFL-CIO and a member of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. She recently joined the AFL-CIO team after sitting at the bargaining table for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s […]
Editha Adams serves as statewide president of a union, United Domestic Workers, AFSCME Local 3930, representing more than 140,000 care workers, the majority of whom are women of color. Adams strengthens community bonds […]
Sheila Ivy Traister has given 44 years of cumulative service to the labor movement. She has held elected positions in the Colorado AFL-CIO and she has served SAG-AFTRA since before the merger. She has served on dozens of local committees […]
Hired by Hawaiian Airlines in 1965 as a flight attendant, Soper retired 55 years later in 2020. She served in the leadership of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA for more than 50 years, including time as president of her local. […]
Senator Patty Murray (Washington) and Representative Bobby Scott (Virginia) have introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which restores the right of workers to freely and fairly form a union and bargain together for changes […]
Ai-jen Poo, co-founder of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, was facing a quandary: She was making little headway getting the New York state legislature to enact a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. It was 2008, and the bill of rights, which called for overtime pay, one day off a week, and protections […]
Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) on Monday threw his support behind the PRO Act, union-backed legislation to promote labor organizing. The PRO Act would block “right-to-work” laws, which allow people who benefit from union […]
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