RESOLUTION: PROTECTION OF IMMIGRANT FAMILIES / HARRIS COUNTY LABOR ASSEMBLY

In the wake of Trump's anti-immigrant executive orders and Governor Abbott's threats against sheriffs that refuse to comply with all ICE detainer requests, the delegates of the Harris County Labor Assembly, AFL-CIO unanimously passed the attached resolution.

RESOLUTION: PROTECTION OF IMMIGRANT FAMILIES / HARRIS COUNTY LABOR ASSEMBLY

TEXAS AFL-CIO STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN MEDICAID CASE

  As supporters of decent health care for all Americans, the Texas AFL-CIO stands in solidarity with Planned Parenthood as it makes its case in a federal courthouse for continued Medicaid funding, Texas AFL-CIO President John Patrick said.

TEXAS AFL-CIO STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN MEDICAID CASE

RAISE THE WAGE: TEXANS PAY MANY WAYS FOR POVERTY-LEVEL MINIMUM WAGE

SIGN THE PETITION AT RAISETHEWAGETEXAS.ORG

  The state minimum wage of $7.25 an hour condemns hundreds of thousands of working people to poverty, costs taxpayers and shuts out business customers, Texas AFL-C

RAISE THE WAGE: TEXANS PAY MANY WAYS FOR POVERTY-LEVEL MINIMUM WAGE

HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE SOUGHT IN TEXAS

The Texas AFL-CIO will host a news conference later today on raising the minimum wage in Texas.

The event will take place 1 p.m. today, Thursday, Jan. 12, in the Speaker’s Committee Room of the Texas Capitol.

HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE SOUGHT IN TEXAS

PROPOSED ‘BATHROOM BILL’ BAD FOR WORKING PEOPLE

The proposed “bathroom bill,” SB 6, “would stigmatize vulnerable Texans and threaten our jobs and our economy for the sake of political grandstanding,” Texas AFL-CIO President John Patrick said today.

PROPOSED ‘BATHROOM BILL’ BAD FOR WORKING PEOPLE

TEXAS AFL-CIO ENTERS OVERTIME RULE CASE, SEEKS TO HELP HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TEXAS WORKERS

The Texas AFL-CIO today intervened in a federal lawsuit challenging the Labor Department’s overtime rule, seeking to reinstate higher pay or more family time for at least four million workers, including 370,000 in Texas.

TEXAS AFL-CIO ENTERS OVERTIME RULE CASE, SEEKS TO HELP HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TEXAS WORKERS