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Know Your Rights: What Working People Are Doing This Week

30 March 2023 - Kenneth Quinnell

Know Your Rights: 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 has been negotiating a new Touring agreement with The Broadway League since… [read more]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Washington State AFL-CIO President Sims Appears on PBS

30 March 2023 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Washington State AFL-CIO President Sims Appears on PBS Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we'll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. April Sims (AFSCME), president of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, appeared on the KBTC/PBS program "Northwest Now,"… [read more]

Support Trades Apprenticeships: In the States Roundup

29 March 2023 - Kenneth Quinnell

Support Trades Apprenticeships: 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 Twitter. Alaska AFL-CIO: We need YOU to show up and support our new brothers and sisters @agwa_uaw! This Friday, they will march to UA President Pitney's office with a super majority of… [read more]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Labor Activists Participate in Leadership Intensive Training

29 March 2023 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Labor Activists Participate in Leadership Intensive Training Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we'll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. On March 24, 32 leaders and staff from state federations, area labor federations and central labor councils across the… [read more]

Starbucks Founder Howard Shultz’s Congressional Testimony: Lies Detected

28 March 2023 - Audrey Edmonds

Starbucks Founder Howard Shultz’s Congressional Testimony: Lies Detected Today, Starbucks founder and former CEO Howard Shultz testified in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. He was subpoenaed to answer for his flagrant and illegal union-busting, and this a big deal because it’s the first time Congress has held a hearing on this topic in decades. Howard Schultz isn’t only testifying on behalf of himself and… [read more]

Making History: Worker Wins

28 March 2023 - Kenneth Quinnell

Making History: Worker Wins Despite the challenges of organizing during a deadly pandemic, working people across the country (and beyond) continue organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. This edition begins with: NNU Wins Two Big Organizing Campaigns: National Nurses United (NNU) had two big organizing wins, adding nearly 700 new members to our union family. On March 8, registered nurses (RNs) at Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph in Wichita, Kansas, voted… [read more]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Pierce County Labor Council Supports Tacoma Art Museum Workers

28 March 2023 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Pierce County Labor Council Supports Tacoma Art Museum Workers Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we'll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. On March 22, the Pierce County Central Labor Council (in Washington) supported a rally by Tacoma Art Museum… [read more]

Strikes Fuel Pay Increases: The Working People Weekly List

27 March 2023 - Kenneth Quinnell

Strikes Fuel Pay Increases: 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. Low-Wage Workers Have Seen Historically Fast Real Wage Growth in the Pandemic Business Cycle: “Over the past 40 years, low- and middle-wage workers in the U.S. labor market have experienced… [read more]

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Michigan Repeals Right to Work

27 March 2023 - Kenneth Quinnell

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Michigan Repeals Right to Work Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we'll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. On Friday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed historic legislation to restore workers’ rights and increase wages. The bills include requirements for… [read more]

Virtual Event: Lifting Up Women on the Shop Floor

23 March 2023 - Audrey Edmonds

Virtual Event: Lifting Up Women on the Shop Floor Picture a manufacturing worker. Are you imagining a woman wielding a torch or assembling an SUV? The manufacturing sector provides good jobs with family-supporting wages and benefits, which do not require four-year degrees. More women should hold these jobs. Yet they are underrepresented in manufacturing, particularly in the highest-paying jobs. This industry is poised to grow as the United States… [read more]