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

STATE LEADERS WHO HELPED BLOCK OVERTIME RULE NEED TO COME UP WITH ALTERNATIVES TO HELP TEXAS WORKERS

Just before Thanksgiving, a federal court order engineered in part by the State of Texas blocked an overtime pay rule that was to take effect Thursday, halting hopes of an improved livelihood for 4 million American workers, including 370,000 Texans.

STATE LEADERS WHO HELPED BLOCK OVERTIME RULE NEED TO COME UP WITH ALTERNATIVES TO HELP TEXAS WORKERS

TEXAS AFL-CIO: DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!

  TEXAS AFL-CIO PRESIDENT JOHN PATRICK ISSUED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE ELECTION:

  No sugarcoating it. The national results are a disaster. A self-serving corporate huckster rode to victory on the jet fuel of racism, anti-immigrant xenophobia, sexism and demagoguery.

TEXAS AFL-CIO: DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!

PATRICK BLASTS TEXAS LAWSUIT ATTACKING OVERTIME PAY RULE

A lawsuit filed by Texas and other states attacking pending changes in overtime rules that would benefit 4 million Americans – including some 400,000 Texans – is based on ideology and “zero concern for working people who are forced to put in free hours at the whim of their employers,” Texas AFL-C

PATRICK BLASTS TEXAS LAWSUIT ATTACKING OVERTIME PAY RULE

Know Your Voting Rights

Important elections are coming this fall. In addition to electing the next president of the United States, we will be voting for members of Congress, and state and local leaders.

Know Your Voting Rights