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No Contract No Coffee - Baristas on ULP Strike

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AFL-CIO Stands in Solidarity with Striking Starbucks Workers

13 Nov, 2025 Read More >

Ed Hawthorne & Shellye Davis at 2025 Convention

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CT AFL-CIO Convention Unanimously Re-Elects President Ed Hawthorne & Secretary-Treasurer Shellye Davis

07 Nov, 2025 Read More >

AFL-CIO State of the Unions Address 2025

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AFL-CIO President: ‘The State of Our Unions Is Under Attack and Fighting Back’

27 Aug, 2025 Read More >

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Federal Court Orders Reinstatement of Fired Probationary Federal Employees

Judge rules workers were illegally fired by the Trump administration.

13, Mar, 2025

Ending Collective Bargaining at TSA Is a ‘Dangerous’ Move that Would Put Lives at Risk

TSA officers are the front-line defense at America’s airports for the millions of families who travel by air each year.

07, Mar, 2025

AFL-CIO Launches the Department of People Who Work for a Living

If Elon Musk can make up his own government department, so can workers

05, Feb, 2025

Hockey Players' Unions Join the AFL-CIO

(Washington, D.C.)—Two of professional hockey’s North American players' associations—the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) and the Professional Hockey Players’ Association (PHPA)—announced today they are formally affiliating with the AFL-CIO and joining it

03, Feb, 2025

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler: 'Trump's Attack on Federal Workers Has Begun'

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler released the following statement in response to President Trump's reinstatement of Schedule F, which Trump created in his first term, that seeks to reclassify hundreds of thousands of federal employees so they can later be fired and replaced with political l

21, Jan, 2025

Freezing Federal Worker Hiring Will Impair the Programs They Deliver to the American Public

WASHINGTON – American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley today issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration's executive order freezing federal hiring:

21, Jan, 2025