Massachusetts AFL-CIO

 At the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, our mission is to build the labor movement. The labor movement fuses our collective power together and advances a broad social and economic justice agenda - an agenda that benefits and reinforces the work of every individual union. It’s also a vision of a fair and just society that benefits all working people, the organized and the not yet organized.

Statement on Charlottesville and August 19th Boston Counter Protest by Steven A. Tolman, President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO

With you, I have watched with heartbreak the hateful and violent actions of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville this week and the subsequent offensive and troubling reaction from Pr

Statement by Steven A. Tolman, President Massachusetts AFL-CIO on Not Guilty Verdict in ‘Top Chef’ Trial

We commend the jury in the US District Court who decided, in their not guilty verdict today, to protect one of the most valued and important rights we hold dear as Americans: the right to protest.

Gerard: Republicans Working Against Workers

In the Huffington Post, United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard writes that "[e]ver worsening is the chasm between the lo

Mortgages for Union Families

Union Plus Mortgage Company is owned by the AFL-CIO and Union Privilege.

Wage Theft Costs Workers Billions of Dollars a Year

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Legislation Endorsed by the Mass. AFL-CIO

Updated March 8th, 2017

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Workers May Have Just Killed Missouri’s Right to Work Law

In a badly needed victory for organized labor, a coalition of workers' rights groups in Missouri is poised to halt a devastating new anti-union law from taking effect later this month.

Read the full article at In These Times.

Lee Saunders: We Need a 'Strong Army' to Advance Economic Justice and Civil Rights

It was raining on the day that Echol Cole and Robert Walker died while working for the Memphis Sanitation Department. Denied access to the employee break room, Cole and Walker were forced to shelter from the rain behind a malfunctioning city truck, only to die moments later when they were crushed by its garbage packer. That following week, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) walked off the job, citing racial discrimination, low wages and unsafe work conditions.

Why I Quit Trump’s Business Council

Salon: School’s out: Teachers union chief Randi Weingarten says Trump leads “most anti-public-education” administration ever

A strong educational system is the bedrock of a healthy democracy. There is a corollary to this fact: A poorly educated public is more likely to be tempted by tyrants, more easily seduced into believing that avarice, greed and consumerism are virtues, and will more readily betray the common good. In many ways, an educational system that does not encourage critical thinking and speaking truth to power is doing the work of authoritarianism.

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