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Worker Wins: A Path Toward Lasting Prosperity

5 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Worker Wins: A Path Toward Lasting Prosperity Our latest roundup of worker wins includes numerous examples of working people organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. Alabama Arise Workers Ratify New Collective Bargaining Agreement: Communications Workers of America (CWA) members who work at the anti-poverty nonprofit organization Alabama Arise announced they have ratified their first contract. Staff formed Alabama Arise Workers United-CWA (AAWU-CWA) in 2023 after they unanimously signed [read more]

Pride Month Profiles: Carl Mulert

5 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Pride Month Profiles: Carl Mulert For Pride Month this year, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various LGBTQ+ workers who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights in the United States. Today's profile is Carl Mulert of IATSE. Carl Mulert is the national business agent at United Scenic Artists, IATSE Local USA 829. He has worked in the entertainment industry for 42 years and is [read more]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Production Workers at Wilmington’s Grand Opera House Join IATSE

5 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Production Workers at Wilmington’s Grand Opera House Join IATSE Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Production workers at The Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware, have voted to form a union with Theatrical [read more]

Pride Is Power: What Working People Are Doing This Week

4 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Pride Is Power: What Working People Are Doing This Week Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week. Actors' Equity:Equity staff is monitoring the smoke from the Canadian wildfires. If you're in the [read more]

Pride Month Profiles: Tia Burnett

4 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Pride Month Profiles: Tia Burnett For Pride Month this year, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various LGBTQ+ workers who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights in the United States. Today's profile is Tia Burnett of OPEIU. An OPEIU Local 12 bargaining team member at HealthPartners in Minnesota, Tia Burnett helped win a new union contract that resulted in a historic pay raise for [read more]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Video Game Workers Reach Historic Tentative Agreement with Microsoft

4 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Video Game Workers Reach Historic Tentative Agreement with Microsoft Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Quality assurance (QA) workers at Microsoft-owned ZeniMax Media, who are represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), [read more]

Celebrating Pride: In the States Roundup

3 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Celebrating Pride: In the States Roundup It's time once again to take a look at the ways working people are making progress in the states. Click on any of the links to follow the state federations on X. California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO:The entire California Labor Movement came together to lobby legislators on #AB288, and it just passed the Assembly floor with overwhelming, bipartisan support. California must stand up to make [read more]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: AFSCME Members Fight Hunger in Akron Public Schools

3 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: AFSCME Members Fight Hunger in Akron Public Schools Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Last week, members of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees (OAPSE)/AFSCME Local 4 embodied the true spirit of [read more]

Get to Know AFL-CIO's Affiliates: Electrical Workers

2 June 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Get to Know AFL-CIO's Affiliates: Electrical Workers This is the next post in our series that will take a deeper look at each of our affiliates. The series will run weekly until we've covered all 63 of our affiliates. Next up are the Electrical Workers (IBEW). Name of Union: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Mission: IBEW members are on the front lines powering the future of North America’s electrified economy, embracing [read more]

Unbought, Unbossed, Unstoppable: The Working People Weekly List

30 May 2025 - Kenneth Quinnell

Unbought, Unbossed, Unstoppable: The Working People Weekly List Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List. Labor Defends Jailed Immigrants: Forklift Driver, Hospital Worker: “The other detained union member is ‘Aunty Lynn’ Lewelyn Dixon, a lab tech at Seattle’s University of Washington Medical Center, who has lived [read more]

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