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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Pittsburgh Labor Collects Busloads of Gifts for Families

Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times.

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Amazon's Anti-Union Blitz Stalks Alabama Warehouse Workers Everywhere, Even the Bathroom

Amazon is the great white whale, a target that labor groups have longed for years to organize, said Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, which is providing personnel and strategic guidance to aid the RWDSU. “We’ll give them whatever they need to help them win,” Trumka said.

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John J. Sweeney (1934-2021), AFL-CIO President Emeritus

John J. Sweeney (1934-2021), AFL-CIO President Emeritus

John Sweeney, who led an era of transformative change in America’s labor movement, passed away Feb. 1 at the age of 86. Sweeney was one of four children born to Irish immigrants in a working-class Bronx neighborhood shortly after the Great Depression.

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How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing Support of Labor Unions to Rise

“This pandemic has amplified [public support] even more. It showed how helpless workers are without a union. They couldn’t even get PPE and unions were able to get it for them,” says Trumka. “For years and years and years, people that we call ‘essential workers’ were invisible.

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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Iowa Federation of Labor Joins Legal Complaint on Unsafe Working Conditions at State Capitol

Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times.
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