Voting Rights Are Union Rights That Protect Workers’ Rights
The workplace protections of your union contract are threatened by anti-union, anti-worker politicians. The evidence is clear: a pro-company Labor Department and NLRB, weakened federal agencies like OSHA, and Supreme Court decisions that degrade the democratic...
AFL-CIO Votes to Grow Labor by Two Million
The Labor Movement is a dynamic force for social and economic progress for all Americans. The just-concluded AFL-CIO Convention confirms this assessment in broad programs addressing current economic and political issues. The Convention called for protecting government...
End Notes: Shopping Cart Solidarity Strengthens Unions
As public polling continues to show growing support for the labor movement, union members and working families have an opportunity to turn that support into meaningful action. One of the most direct and effective ways to stand with workers is to buy union-made...
End Notes — Examining the Lives, Work, and Communities that Define the Labor Movement
This issue of the Label Letter centers on the lives, work, and communities that define the labor movement. We remember Alex Pretti — a Veterans Administration intensive care nurse, AFGE member, and neighbor — who was killed while trying to help others during an...
The NLRB is Broken
The NLRB is a broken agency. Deliberately broken by President Trump to deny working people and their unions recourse in matters of labor law violations. He has removed a properly appointed NLRB official and left vacancies at the agency created to protect workers’...
Resistance
Resistance to the Trump administration is growing. Nationwide demonstrations on October 18 drew millions of American citizens to protest actions taken by the White House and its appointees. The government shutdown has resulted from the refusal of the White House and...
Solidarity, Pride and Resistance
This Labor Day and the week long celebration of labor rights and unionism and social progress resulting from the combined strength of organized workers was on display across the country. The many photos of these events in this issue of the Label Letter present a...
AFL-CIO is Hitting the Road For a Cross-Country Bus Tour in Support of Working People
America’s labor movement is hitting the road. While politicians in Washington, D.C., continue to sow chaos and uncertainty for working people and big corporations profit off our backs, the AFL-CIO is launching a nationwide bus tour to provide voice to and build power...
Trump Targets Federal Employee Unions
The Trump Administration’s attack on workers’ rights and workers’ unions intensifies. It has unilaterally, illegally ended collective bargaining for million federal workers while at the same time eviscerating federal agencies that serve a multitude of Americans by...
Musk’s DOGE Threatens Workers’ RightsProtected by Labor Department and OSHA
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is not a real department, has mounted an attack on the very real Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration DOGE, a contrivance of the Trump administration and billionaire Elon Musk, is aimed at government worker and agencies that serve all Americans.
