Now is the time to say ‘Yes’
“When I look at the years we’ve been fighting for health care and what it means for working families to start down the path of comprehensive reform, I know the time to step forward is now,” said AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka in a video message to working families announcing [...]
Actions planned in NC next week
On Thursday, March 25, 2010, working families will join together at Bank of America in Raleigh to demand good jobs now. America needs 11 million jobs, and big Wall Street banks should pay to rebuild jobs and the economy they helped destroy in 2008.
Since the recession began, America has lost [...]
AFL-CIO President talks jobs, restoring the middle class, and health care
In a speech delivered to the National Press Club on Monday, National AFL-CIO President, Rich Trumka, said because of the failed policies of the past three decades, the United States is “a nation with profound, unaddressed structural economic problems on a long-term, downward [...]
Not worthy of our support without changes
Working people have been fighting for health care reform in the United States for over a century. Despite the challenges to getting a good bill, we are not about to give up now.
Today, our country stands alone in the developed world as the only nation not to provide comprehensive [...]
Congress needs to hear from you – not just insurance lobbyists
Seven hundred thousand dollars per day. That’s how much money health insurance companies and HMO’s are spending to kill health insurance reform. That’s your premium dollars at work, folks, lobbying the Congress to protect their profits and against your interests.
What are you going to do [...]
Officer elections and the President in the House of Labor
Immediately following our state convention, the officers and other delegates from unions and Central Labor Councils across North Carolina headed to Pittsburgh, PA for the national convention of the AFL-CIO.
The national convention this year marked the end of John Sweeney’s tenure at the helm of the [...]
Yesterday, proponents of health care reform rallied outside the GOP headquarters on Hillsborough St. to repudiate the lies that Michael Steele and Republican allies are spreading about health care. Among the protestors, Bob Clayman had a story to tell.
“I’m a senior citizen recently forced into retirement at age 62, but when my transition plan benefits [...]
On Wednesday, over 60 members of SEANC, HCAN, Acorn, NC Justice Center, AFL-CIO and various community groups came out to the Blue Cross Blue Shield headquarters in Chapel Hill to protest the insurance monger’s war against health care reform. The protesters held up signs proclaiming ‘People Before Profits’ and waved at honking cars.
The event featured [...]
Walker will be Associate Deputy Secretary at DOL
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has announced the appointment of Naomi Walker to be the Associate Deputy Secretary at the Department of Labor. Naomi will be responsible for policy development and outreach to the labor movement, and knowing her work at the AFL-CIO for the [...]
VoteVets.org mobilizes for freedom to organize
Saying the freedom to organize and form unions is one of many American values for which veterans have fought and died, the AFL-CIO Union Veterans Council and VoteVets.org are teaming up to fight for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.
“The freedom to organize is an American value, one of [...]
Decades of struggle by workers and their unions have resulted in significant improvements in working conditions. However, the threat of going to work healthy and coming home severely injured – or not coming home at all – remains all too real.
According to estimates (PDF document)by the International Labor Organization (ILO), worldwide, 1 million workers suffer [...]
Media Fund effort depends on viewers like you
Greed. Fabric of America. The Real Secret. Hope & Change. We Don’t Ask. The Boardroom. See Saw.
These are the national television spots made possible by contributions to the AFL-CIO Media Fund from local and national unions, state federations like ours, central labor councils, and thousands of individual union [...]