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AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Shuler Talks Tech and Jobs

03 Feb, 2021

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03 Feb, 2021

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AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Shuler Talks Tech and Jobs

"We are going to insert ourselves at every table,” Shuler said. “If we don’t get workers to the table, there’s going to be more of what Trump tapped into,” she said, in reference to angry voters who feel left behind by globalization. “Training works better when you talk to workers.

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Shuler Talks Tech and Jobs

Amazon's Anti-Union Blitz Stalks Alabama Warehouse Workers Everywhere, Even the Bathroom

02 Feb, 2021

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02 Feb, 2021

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Amazon's Anti-Union Blitz Stalks Alabama Warehouse Workers Everywhere, Even the Bathroom

Amazon is the great white whale, a target that labor groups have longed for years to organize, said Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, which is providing personnel and strategic guidance to aid the RWDSU. “We’ll give them whatever they need to help them win,” Trumka said.

Amazon's Anti-Union Blitz Stalks Alabama Warehouse Workers Everywhere, Even the Bathroom

John J. Sweeney (1934-2021), AFL-CIO President Emeritus

John J. Sweeney (1934-2021), AFL-CIO President Emeritus

02 Feb, 2021

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John J. Sweeney (1934-2021), AFL-CIO President Emeritus

John Sweeney, who led an era of transformative change in America’s labor movement, passed away Feb. 1 at the age of 86. Sweeney was one of four children born to Irish immigrants in a working-class Bronx neighborhood shortly after the Great Depression.

John J. Sweeney (1934-2021), AFL-CIO President Emeritus

How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing Support of Labor Unions to Rise

29 Jan, 2021

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29 Jan, 2021

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How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing Support of Labor Unions to Rise

“This pandemic has amplified [public support] even more. It showed how helpless workers are without a union. They couldn’t even get PPE and unions were able to get it for them,” says Trumka. “For years and years and years, people that we call ‘essential workers’ were invisible.

How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing Support of Labor Unions to Rise

Biden Moves Quickly to Show Union Workers That Democrats Care

29 Jan, 2021

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29 Jan, 2021

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Biden Moves Quickly to Show Union Workers That Democrats Care

Major labor leaders like Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, are more optimistic about the prospects for organized labor than they’ve been in many years. “I know what he is.

Biden Moves Quickly to Show Union Workers That Democrats Care