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AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka On President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address

Wed, 01/25/2012 - 10:19am

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Leaders are judged not just by what they say but to whom they listen. President Obama’s speech tonight shows that he has listened to the single mom working two jobs to get by, to the out-of-work construction worker, to the retired factory worker, to the student serving coffee to help pay for college.

By laying out a vision of an America that can create jobs and prosperity for all instead of wealth for the few, the President voiced the aspirations and concerns of those who are too often ignored.

Thousands Rally at State House Against Pension Changes

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 11:13am

Solidarity Forever sung by Pete Seeger & The Weavers

Solidarity Forever: Happy Labor Day

Thu, 09/01/2011 - 1:57pm

Current AFL-CIO Boycotts

Mon, 08/15/2011 - 3:06pm

A company and its products or services are put on the national list of AFL-CIO-endorsed boycotts at the request of affiliated international and national unions that are working to help the firm's employees overcome management efforts to keep them from winning justice on the job through organizing and collective bargaining.

A boycott is endorsed by the AFL-CIO after it has been initiated by the international and/or national union as part of a broader campaign on behalf of employees of the targeted company.

As appropriate, the AFL-CIO and the Union Label & Service Trades Department assist the international/national union with publicizing the boycott. The union retains the primary responsibility for conducting the boycott.

Companies,their products and services are added to and removed from the list as events warrant.

Armand E. Sabitoni- Working Families Can Not Afford More Games

Fri, 07/15/2011 - 12:44pm

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

In the past several years there have been many disturbing trends that leave the American working person in a difficult situation. Political whining and posturing has taken the place of the “can do” attitude that has kept our country strong for over two hundred years. The American middle class has been quite patient with the sacrifices they have made during this last difficult and painful recession. We have been patient with the bailouts of Wall Street. We have been patient when their CEO’s raked in large bonuses after we saved their corporations. We have been patiently waiting for the economy to improve while filibustering and fighting have continued in Washington.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at the National Press Club

Mon, 05/23/2011 - 9:57am

LaborVision with Diane Ravitch at Rhode Island College

Tue, 05/10/2011 - 1:41pm

RHODE ISLAND RANKED #2 NATIONALLY IN WORKER SAFETY

Thu, 04/28/2011 - 11:32am

New report finds Rhode Island’s on the job fatality rate is 1.4 per 100,000 workers

Providence, RI— Rhode Island ranks second nationally in a new report on worker safety released by the AFL-CIO this week. The 20^th annual Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect (http://www.aflcio.org/issues/safety/memorial/upload/dotj_2011.pdf) report finds that the on-the-job fatality rate for Rhode Island workers is 1.4 per 100,000, less than half the national average of 3.3 per 100,000.

Patrick J. Quinn: Journal is anti-labor corporate stooge

Mon, 04/11/2011 - 10:27am

The Journal’s April 3 Commentary section was easily the crescendo of anti-worker, anti-union vitriol that has been building in the paper over the past few years, with no less than a half-dozen attacks on workers and their organizations. This reflects the joining of its corporate labor-relations policy and its editorial bias.

The Journal’s attempt to characterize the current fiscal crises as the fault of unionized public-sector workers has no basis in reality. Schoolteachers, firefighters, nurses, police officers and sewage-treatment plant workers go to work every day to provide services to our communities — and somehow their retirement plans are to blame for the economic depression?

We Are One

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

Richard Trumka: Scott Walker's False Choice

Mon, 03/07/2011 - 1:09pm

Washington DC: Close to 200,000 working Wisconsinites have been given the following option by Gov. Scott Walker: If you want to keep your job, give up your rights. If you want to keep your rights, you're going to be laid off.

This is downright un-American. The governor's choice is a false one, manufactured for political reasons.

The real question, the one at the heart of our economic debate, is this: Do we continue down a path that delivers virtually all income growth to the richest 1% of Americans, or do we commit to rebuilding a thriving middle class?