AFL-CIO Launches ‘It’s Better in a Union’ Bus Tour to Fight for Freedom, Fairness and Security Across the Nation

On Wednesday, union leaders, members and allies packed together in front of the AFL-CIO headquarters to kick off the nationwide “It’s Better in a Union: Fighting for Freedom, Fairness and Security” bus tour.

The “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour is officially bringing union power to a city near you!

At yesterday’s kickoff rally just a block away from the White House, where President Trump is waging an all-out assault against working people, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler rallied the crowd around how a union contract gives workers the freedom, fairness and security that we need and deserve. As she said: “We’re here today because we believe that change can happen. And the answer is not a political party—the answer is not more of the broken status quo—the answer is a good union job!”

The assembled crowd heard remarks from National President Everett Kelley of AFGE, President Lee Saunders of AFSCME, Executive Vice President Evelyn DeJesus of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), President Claude Cummings Jr. of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), President Matthew Biggs of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), General President Jimmy Williams Jr. of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT), General President Eric Dean of the Ironworkers, President Nick Daniels of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), President Tyler Turner of Office and Professional Employees (OPEIU), International Union President Gwen Mills of UNITE HERE, International President David McCall of the United Steelworkers (USW), and President April Verrett of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

In the lead-up to Labor Day, the bus tour will crisscross the nation to amplify workers’ voices on our fights to organize, the issues that matter to us and how the Trump administration is making our lives harder. The union leaders and members traveling on the bus will stop in 26 states to join picket lines, support organizing campaigns, visit Veterans Affairs and Medicaid-funded facilities and hospitals gutted by DOGE, and speak directly with workers whose jobs have been ripped away by the Trump administration. 

Check the AFL-CIO’s Mobilize online platform over the next several weeks to find out when the bus tour is coming to your area.