AFL-CIO
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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In a historic meeting yesterday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka met with Mexican President AndrΓ©s Manuel LΓ³pez Obrador to discuss significant flaws in the proposed new NAFTA agreement. As Trumka told reporters last week, the deal is still not enforceable as written. In particular, Mexico has yet to demonstrate that it has the resources and infrastructure to follow through on its promised reforms. β€œWe need President LΓ³pez Obrador to show us how Mexico will guarantee...

05 September, 2019

The AFL-CIO released its annual Executive Paywatch report today, detailing how the gap between CEO and worker pay continues to grow. β€œOur economy works best when consumers have money to spend. That means raising wages for workers and reining in out of control executive pay. This year’s report is a stark reminder that working people must use our collective voice to form bigger, stronger unions and rewrite the economic rules once and for all.” β€”AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer...

25 June, 2019

This year we will come together to call for action on hazards that cause unnecessary injury, illness and death.Β We will stand united against the ongoing attacks on workers' rights and protections and demand that elected officials put workers' well-being above corporate interests. The Occupational Safety and Health Act and Mine Safety and Health Act promise workers the right to a safe job. Unions and our allies have fought hard to make that promise a realityβ€”winning protections...

10 April, 2019

The leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico held a signing ceremony last week at the G-20 summit to advance the β€œnew NAFTA” agreement. But as politicians celebrated thousands of miles away, working people made clear that the job isn’t done. β€œDespite today’s theatrics, the work of fixing NAFTA is far from over,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. β€œAs it stands, this agreement has not earned the support of America’s working families. Without major improvements,...

03 December, 2018

NAFTA is being renegotiated because working people made clear that the original, failed, pro-corporate trade deal needed a rewrite to include better rules that put families and communities first. However, the USMCA is unfinished, and it’s too early to say whether it’s in the best interests of working people. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released a full statement yesterday on the trade deal: "Added protections for working people and some reductions in special privileges for global companies is...

01 October, 2018

When Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders attacking the rights of federal government workers, he wasn’t prepared for the response from working people. Our response, led by AFGE, included filing lawsuits to stop the orders and rallying across the country in support of federal workers. Now a federal judge has agreed with working people that these executive orders are illegal. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled that key provisions of the three executive orders are...

29 August, 2018

The AFL-CIO yesterday launched a nationwideΒ television ad campaignΒ highlighting the wave of collective action sweeping the country. From surging organizing victories to the defeat of Prop. A, working people are on the rise. As AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka puts it: β€œBrothers and sisters, it's time...

20 August, 2018

The imbalance in our economy between the pay of CEOs and working people is worsening. In 2017, CEO pay at S&P 500 Index companies increased 6.4% to a total of $13.94 million. In contrast, production and nonsupervisory workers received a paltry 2.6% raise, earning on average just $38,613β€”a CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 361 to 1. Among the top 20 highest paid CEO's:Β  #17: Mondelez CEO Dirk Van De Put who made a shockingΒ $42,442,924 in 2017....

22 May, 2018

BCTGM Local 6 members were among thousands of workers who rallied in Philadelphia's Thomas Paine Plaza on February 24 ahead of a Supreme Court voteΒ that could profoundly affect the ability of public-sector workers to improve their wages and working conditions.Β The Philadelphia rally, which included AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, was a part of the national "Workers Day of Action" movement, which included events in 28 cities. Today, February 26th, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral...

26 February, 2018

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a failure for working people across North America. It kills jobs, lowers ages and diminishes our democracy. For nearly 25 years, NAFTA has put the interests of powerful corporate CEOs ahead of environmental standards, healthy communities and regular working families across the continent. By contrast, a good trade deal would level the playing field for all workers with key provisions to: Eliminate corporate privileges like the Investor-State Dispute Settlement,...

12 February, 2018

The Mexican government has filed legislation that would substantially weaken rights for working people. In response, the AFL-CIOΒ filedΒ a complaintΒ alleging that Mexico is violating the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, the NAFTA labor side deal. Mexico’s bill would lock in low wages and poor working conditions. It also would frustrate legitimate unions' efforts to negotiate together on behalf of Mexican workers, who work the longest hours for the lowest pay among all countriesΒ that are members of...

27 January, 2018

At the AFL-CIO 2017 Convention last week, delegates unanimouslyΒ re-elected federation officersβ€”PresidentΒ RichardΒ Trumka, Secretary-TreasurerΒ Liz ShulerΒ and Executive Vice PresidentΒ Tefere Gebreβ€”and the Executive Councilβ€”made up of 55 vice presidents, including BCTGM International President David Durkee. In his acceptance speech, AFL-CIO Executive Vice PresidentΒ Tefere GebreΒ said: Sisters and brothers, these are tough times. For our country. For our movement. For our communities. Between black and white. Between immigrant and native-born. But even in the face of these challenges, I have hope. Hope of a brighter day....

28 October, 2017

St. Louis, Mo. β€” Corrina Christensen, Director of Communications & Public Relations, and Michelle Ellis, Director of New Media & Graphic Arts, are representing the BCTGM International Union this week at the 2017 International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) Convention. The Convention began with a plenary panel, "Confronting Right-to-Work and Building a Workers' Movement" that was moderated by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Panel participants included MaryBe McMillan, President of the North Carolina AFL-CIO, Nora Loreto, Canadian Association...

20 October, 2017

35,000 pounds of relief supplies also delivered on flight;Β evacuees to fill seats on return flight to Newark, New Jersey Today, theΒ AFL-CIO, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and United Airlines teamed up to fly more than 300 first responders and skilled volunteersβ€”including nurses, doctors, electricians, engineers, carpenters and truck driversβ€”to Puerto Rico to help with relief and rebuilding efforts. [caption id="attachment_6510" align="alignright"...

04 October, 2017

Finally, after nearly a quarter of a century, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)Β is beingΒ renegotiated. And while NAFTA negotiations haveΒ not progressed very far, and it is too early to say whether the effort will bring a New Economic Deal to working people or simplyΒ more crony capitalism, there was someΒ fantastic, surprising, excellentΒ news recently. The Canadian negotiating team didΒ something big: They told the U.S. negotiators that U.S. laws that interfere with people’s freedom to negotiate on the job...

21 September, 2017