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 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

Bloomberg BNA: Trump Team Unlikely to Fight for NAFTA Worker Safety Rewrite

“NAFTA is a disaster,” Celeste Drake, a trade and globalization policy specialist at AFL-CIO, told Bloomberg BNA. “We don’t think it needs to be tinkered with.

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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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.

People's World: AFL-CIO Executive Council Backs Medicare for All

A strong endorsement of government-run single-payer Medicare for All as the ultimate solution to U.S. health care ills highlighted position statements from the just-concluded summer AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting.

The American Prospect: The Perils of $7.25

A federal minimum-wage increase is the clearest and most effective way to raise pay for millions of low-wage workers. As a recent EPI report states, a $15 federal minimum wage by 2024 would restore its lost value and by 2019 would be worth more than the historic inflation-adjusted high point of 1968. An estimated 22.5 million workers would see an increase in pay.

Read the full article in The American Prospect.

The Guardian: Mississippi Nissan Workers Hope for Historic Win in 14-Year Fight to Unionize

“I’ve never seen a labor campaign of this size,” says the civil rights movement veteran Frank Figgers. “This is a historic struggle about overcoming the effects of slavery in Mississippi.” Figgers is attending a meeting of 100 Nissan workers at a church preparing for the last push ahead of a historic union election for 4,000 Nissan workers set to take place on August 2-3 in Canton, Mississippi.

Read the full article in The Guardian.

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