News and Media

News and Media

AFL-CIO Slams SOTU Address: Trump’s Rosy Picture Disconnected from Workers’ Reality

Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on President Trump’s State of the Union address: President Trump's speech tonight was a fever dream, completely divorced from the economic reality working people feel every day amid rising costs and vanishing jobs. We know Trump’s billionaire-first agenda
Read More
News and Media

AFL-CIO: Workplace Deaths Decreased in 2024, but the Trump Administration Threatens That Progress

In response to newly released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that 5,070 workers died on the job in 2024—a decrease from the previous year—AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler released the following statement: The labor movement mourns each of the 5,070 workers who lost their lives on
Read More

Recent

News and Media

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

The leader of the nation’s largest labor federation emphasized, ‘Working people are going to save ourselves,’ in third   annual address

Read More
News and Media

AFL-CIO on Trump’s Attempted Illegal Firing of Fed Board Member Lisa Cook

In response to President Trump's attempt to illegally fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler released the following statement: 

Read More
News and Media

AFL-CIO Slams Stop-Work Order for Revolution Wind

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration ordering work to stop on the Revolution Wind energy project off the coast of Rhode Island, which has employed more than 1,000 union members to date:

Read More
AFL-CIO Bus Tour in Philadelphia
News and Media

AFL-CIO Bus Tour Stops in Philadelphia as Teachers Prepare to Strike; Travels to Long Beach to Defend VA Union Contracts

The AFL-CIO “It’s Better In a Union” bus made two powerful stops on Friday as its nationwide tour rolls on.

Read More
News and Media

AFL-CIO Responds to Trump Administration’s Federal Escalation in D.C.

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond issued the following statement on the Trump administration’s takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department and deployment of the National Guard in the District of Columbia:  

Read More
AFL-CIO Bus in Bakersfield and Wilkes-Barre
News and Media

AFL-CIO Bus Tour Fights Back Against Medicaid and Social Security Cuts with Nurses in Bakersfield and AFGE in Wilkes-Barre

On Thursday, the AFL-CIO’s “It’s Better In a Union” bus tour stopped by a California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) townhall in

Read More

Latest Videos