The AFL-CIO yesterday launched a nationwideย television ad campaignย 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: โBrothers and sisters, it's time...
Freedom means more than making a living. It means the ability to financially support your family and have time to be there for them. Check out AFSCME's new video with President Lee Saunders explaining how corporate interest groups are working tirelessly to chip away at the freedoms that unions have won for everyone. ...
Five years ago, President Barack Obama started a program protecting immigrants who came to America as children. Today, thousands of hardworking aspiring citizens have been able to reach their dreams thanks to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA. โWe need everyone in our country to be able to live and work without fear,โ said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. 95%: Thatโs how many of the nearly 1 million DACA enrollees are employed or enrolled...
Americaโs economy has swung out of balance. Itโs getting harder to get by, let alone get ahead. Everyday Americans are working more than ever before. Our work has created record wealth for an economic recovery thatโs been everywhere but ordinary peoplesโ wallets. Our economic rules unfairly favor corporate CEOs and the rich because they manipulate the rules in their favor. Almost no one stands up for average Americans these days,ย and now there is a Supreme Court...
According to a recent blog piece by The Atlantic, ย laws raising the minimum wage in 12 states wentย into effect on January 1st. Additionally, the minimum wage in Maryland and Washington D.C. will go up in July, andย inflation adjustments will be made to raise the minimum wage in Colorado and South Dakota. A handful of cities and counties, including New York, will also see minimum-wage increases. Efforts to raise the minimum wage paid off in 2015, and as...
If weโre going to raise wages for all working people and get our communities thriving again, we need to protect and strengthen the rights of working folks to speak up together at our workplaces. Check out this excellent video from Robert Reich about why unions are the key to building a strong middle class! ...